Ex-'Gay' Group Reports Harassment by Homosexual at NEA Convention
by Jim Brown
July 6, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A former homosexual says he and other ex-"gays" were verbally harassed by a homosexual at the recently adjourned National Education Association convention in Orlando.
Homosexual activist Wayne Besen was in Orlando on Friday (June 30) at the NEA convention, protesting a booth hosted by the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. Besen, a former spokesman for the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign and author of the book Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, tells the Orlando Sentinel that ex-"gay" groups pose a threat in schools because they "misinform people" about homosexuality.
Greg Quinlan is a former homosexual who was invited to the NEA convention by the Ex-Gay Educators' Caucus. Quinlan reports Besen was taking pictures of the group's booth at the convention and harassing a former lesbian who believes no one is born a homosexual. According to Quinlan, Besen refused to leave when asked to leave the area.
"He started waving his finger in my face. He called me a bunch of superlatives that I can't repeat. He also called me a 'Nelly fairy' and a few other things," Quinlan shares. He explains that security was called after Besen, again, refused to leave when asked. "He kept harassing us. We moved him away from our booth. We logged some witnesses to what all happened, and then the security for the Convention Center and the Orlando police escorted him away."
According to Quinlan, who heads the Ohio-based Pro-Family Network, Besen took umbrage with the message disseminated by the Ex-Gay Educators Caucus.
"We're there to let people know that, as educators, we have to present all the information so that children in our schools who have same-sex attraction can get all the information they need -- because a lot of us [former homosexuals] didn't want our feelings, and we had them," Quinlan states. "But the only information that they're getting is information that says that it's okay to be gay, that you were made to be that way."
Quinlan says there is no scientific, quantitative evidence that shows anyone is born a homosexual.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
