It’s nice that major leaders in various sects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can come together over something, but I just wish it wasn’t to oppose a gay pride festival in Jerusalem.

The part of this article that made me laugh, however, comes about 2/3 of the way through. Apparently the whole furor was started by some evangelical rabble-rouser at a church in California that meets in a hotel. He was tipped off to the event by “a congregation member who had told Mr. Giovinetti that he was gay for many years and still monitored gay Web sites [emphasis mine]”. Ah yes, those ex-gays. Even though they tend to be hateful, preachy people, you almost have to feel sorry for this guy, because “still monitored gay Web sites” is thinly veiled code for “jerks off to gay porn and looks for hookups on gay.com”. He just tattles on the gay agenda to his minister later.

I am slightly heartened by the fact that, in a cursory google search to identify a few hateful, preachy ex-gay organizations to link to as examples in that last paragraph, that I actually had to dig. The top links were actually all from places like the apparently quite positive and constructive ExGayWatch.com. It’s heartening to see that confused people trying to find their way will see this kind of thing first.