Ex-Gay Poster Boy John Plk Has Been Outed—Aga - Queerty

Contents:

• JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.
• JOHN PL GAY PORN VIOS
• ST. JOHN PL II’S TOTALLY CATHOLIC RPONSE WHEN GAY ‘PRI’ PARA ME TO ROME 18 YEARS AGO
• JOHN PLK: 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT POSTER BOY NOW SAYS HE SORRY AND WAS GAY ALL ALONG
• JOHN PL YOUNG WOOS YOUNG, GAY CROWD WH 1978 H
• EX-GAY POSTER BOY JOHN PLK HAS BEEN OUTED—AGA
• JOHN TRAVOLTA'S ALLEGEDLY GAY PENIS: A HISTORY
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.

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JOHN PL GAY PORN VIOS

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ST. JOHN PL II’S TOTALLY CATHOLIC RPONSE WHEN GAY ‘PRI’ PARA ME TO ROME 18 YEARS AGO

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JOHN PLK: 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT POSTER BOY NOW SAYS HE SORRY AND WAS GAY ALL ALONG

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The pastor troduced him to Exod, a mistry California pecially for gay people who wished to be nverted and bee straight for relig reasons.

JOHN PL YOUNG WOOS YOUNG, GAY CROWD WH 1978 H

Plk immediately signed up for a year-long rintial program lled “Steps Out of Homosexualy, ” which he lived wh 12 other people, studied the Bible, and went to church. “Even as I pursued this reer as a profsnal ex-gay man, and raised a fay and loved my wife, I was utter torment, ” Plk wrote 2014. I wanted my homosexualy to change, but the tth is: For all my public rhetoric, I was never one b ls gay.

EX-GAY POSTER BOY JOHN PLK HAS BEEN OUTED—AGA

Plk got dnk and wound up at a gay bar D.

He was still livg his life as a heterosexual man, and his wife Anne still believed the ex-gay movement, but he only got more lonely as the years went by. That same year, Plk divorced his wife, and me out aga as a gay man.

JOHN TRAVOLTA'S ALLEGEDLY GAY PENIS: A HISTORY

” Plk’s ex-wife Anne remas part of the ex-gay movement today through the Rtored Hope Network, an anizatn that cropped up the wake of Exod’ dissolutn to “serve those who sire to overe sful relatnal and sexual issu their liv and those impacted by homosexualy, ” their webse stat. “It’s ternalized homophobia: you hate what you are. It is a form of self-flicted torture that has hnted me my entire life, and I do not want young gay women and men today to go through what I went through, ” Plk wrote 2014.

Today, Chef John Plk owns Mezzaluna, a terg bs, Portland, Oregon, where he liv proudly and openly as a gay man. The Vatin has not changed one ta of s formal teachg on the immoraly of homosexual acts.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

But the Bishop of Rome's attu towards gays and lbians has taken a 180 gree turn sce the electn of Pope Francis 2013. Francis is not exactly a gay rights activist.

" And that's exactly why his non-judgmental attu towards gays and lbians is all the more signifint. John Pl II and Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzger) lerally beat up on gay men, while promotg self-loathg, closeted and homophobic homosexuals up the greasy poll of the hierarchy.

It will take a long time to undo the harm the two men have done to gays by their gtur and the poison that flowed om their pens. As all are aware, Benedict is the thor of the Vatin's current articulatn of the Catholic Church's official teachg on homosexualy.