In an appearance on Vocal Point in March, ex-gay activist Anne Paulk lamented that teachers have “brainwashed” students into supporting gay rights, pushing society into a “downward spiral” dominated by “gay propaganda.”
Our children, the younger generation, have been inundated with cultural training or diversity training or tolerance training at their schools, brainwashing essentially, to not actually engage the topic [of homosexuality] from multiple sides or actually examine evidence. They’ve been told what to think over and over again and then punished or made fun of or put off to the side and stand out if they disagree with this gay propaganda. It’s not a matter of data or science or anything else, it’s a matter of intimidation and pressure tactics, and our kids have fallen right into that. It’s now grown up and impacted the younger adult generations and so the impact of that is tremendous and it will continue a downward spiral if we don’t engage the currnet generation with the truth.
When host Jerry Newcombe noted that Paulk’s ex-husband, John Paulk, was the poster boy for the ex-gay movement until he announced last year that he is still gay and renounced ex-gay therapy, Paulk responded that John has been “disobedient” to God: “He walked back into it, that’s true. Can that happen? Absolutely. People can fall, Christians can be disobedient and people who once had a struggle can once again engage that struggle whether it’s alcohol, drugs or any other type of sin struggle, we are not immune to our past, we must either surrender or be invaded by once was and so that is the challenge.”
Newcombe dismissed ex-ex-gays like John Paulk as similar to people who, for a time, stopped cigarette smoking “but unfortunately went back into it.”
