Dr. Phil's Intolerance for the Ex-Gay Communy | Opn News

Contents:

• DR. PHIL'S INTOLERANCE FOR THE EX-GAY COMMUNY
• NO SUCH THG AS EX-GAYS? MORE BAD ADVICE FROM DR. PHIL
• GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH
• DR. PHIL'S INTOLERANCE FOR THE EX-GAY COMMUNY
• DR. PHIL AT GAY WEDDG -- WALKS INTERR DIGNER DOWN THE AISLE
• ACTRS MARCIA GAY HARN ON HOW HER NEW SERI, "SO HELP ME TODD," MIX EDY AND DRAMA

DR. PHIL'S INTOLERANCE FOR THE EX-GAY COMMUNY

Early life and GayMike Bayer was born on 19 September 1979 California, USA.

Dpe his high school populary and ptacy of a basketball team that ranked the top 25 the untry, he was always unhappy about his homosexual orientatn. His high school relign class that tght homosexualy was a s ma him feel terrible about himself.

He me out as a gay person when he was 19 years old. Phil Gay? Phil is fely not gay as we know of now.

NO SUCH THG AS EX-GAYS? MORE BAD ADVICE FROM DR. PHIL

He is also the father of two children, and this no way prov that he is gay.

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But pro-gay? People who don't watch his daytime talk show, about to start s 10th season, might be surprised to hear that this host has been speakg out support of gay terts -- pecially support of gay and qutng youth -- sce day fact, McGraw is so supportive that we at The Advote were somewhat nfound Febary when a few onle outlets reported advice, posted on, suggtg that the mother of a young son "take the girl thgs away" om her son "and buy him boy toys. If we had lled, we would have learned (as we did when the reps lled ) that the advice was om a show McGraw taped missteps rulted the opportuny to s down wh McGraw -- both to talk about his ne-year-old advice and to further exame the roots of his strong support for gay youth, marriage equaly, and the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell.

GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH

So I had five years on Oprah and ne years on here, so I've been dog this for 14 sce some of those first episos, you've been talkg about gay issu. We al wh what we ll the silent epimics Ameri, and I thk so much of the treatment of the gay and lbian muny is silent -- and should not be. Well, I'm not sure that we have had an upswg or an uptick suicis the gay and lbian muny.

DR. PHIL'S INTOLERANCE FOR THE EX-GAY COMMUNY

I'm not even sure we've had an uptick wh gay, lbian, or qutng youth. I mean, we know that gay and lbian youth are bullied and picked on at a much higher rate than other kids.

DR. PHIL AT GAY WEDDG -- WALKS INTERR DIGNER DOWN THE AISLE

But is a real problem for gay and lbian youth and that's not gog to change until we do somethg about , and when I say somethg about , that means we've got to te the people that are a posn to regnize , prevent , remediate when 's happeng. So my schoolg was back the '70s and at that time homosexualy was a diagnostic tegory the DSM manual, ed by the Amerin Psychiatric and Amerin Psychologil Associatn. And the wisdom that was tght then was that gay was a liftyle, that was learned.

Did you, or do you, have very many gay people your life? Well, I haven't lled roll, I don't know how many gay iends I have or don't have, but I have many, and you know, 's tertg. I mean, people are who they are, and I know gay people that I don't like, we're not iends.

I know gay people that I do and we are, but has nothg to do wh their sexual orientatn. If you unrstand that your sexual orientatn is a hard-wired geic DNA realy and not a learned liftyle, then what toys you play wh is not gog to terme whether you're straight or gay, you're not gog to take a child that is hard-wired to be gay and give him G. Joe and so he be straight, and you're not gog to give a kid a Barbie and so he be gay.

ACTRS MARCIA GAY HARN ON HOW HER NEW SERI, "SO HELP ME TODD," MIX EDY AND DRAMA

Do gay boy children play wh girl toys?

But I've never seen any rearch that said young male children that grow up to be gay preferred female toys. That's not a gay or straight issue, that's a parentg issue. If a parent had a child that believed that they were gay or lbian and [the parents] said, "Well, we're not gog to have that, you're gog to go do this, " and so you're now tellg a child that has their own md to be somebody they're not, then I thk now you're a suatn where those parents need to be unseled.

I thk you need to have a dialogue about differenc sexualy, not only terms of when they bee sexually active, but how they intify themselv, and they need to know we have so many gay and lbian youth that have suffered bee they don't perceive an air of acceptance wh their own fay. I thk people who don't watch your show might be surprised that you're so supportive of gay . We have many gay and lbian adults who work here.