Potential New York Senate candidate Harold E. Ford Jr. was profiled by Maureen Dowd in the Sunday New York Times. The conservative former Tennessee congressman—boasting an anti-gay record but now says he is pro-gay rights—tells Dowd that he has always rejected the ex-gay myth:
"On his embrace of gay marriage, he observed: 'There were pastors in my Tennessee district who said you can minister to someone and change their sexual orientation. I just never accepted that. I’m a heterosexual. I don’t know what anyone can say to me to make me sexually be with a man.' "
Well it's a good thing that Ford doesn't believe in ex-gays. Let's check back in a couple of weeks and see has his position changed.
H/T: Truth WinsOut
Oh, why won't he go somewhere and sit down? I don't want no nasty Democratic Primary no where. I want peace...hot dammit!
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 08 February 2010 at 15:28
He just hasn't found the RIGHT man!!
Posted by: Cedric | 08 February 2010 at 17:03
Cedric --I agree with Ya!! LOL!!
Posted by: CC | 08 February 2010 at 17:20
He found someone... it's that pastor in Tennessee on the DL.
Posted by: Whatuthink | 08 February 2010 at 19:31
There's something about this guy that just rubs me the wrong way! Opportunism...perhaps?
Posted by: Eric | 08 February 2010 at 23:22
I think maybe his previous views were made to cater to the bible belt state of TN which he served. Hopefully being in NY has garnered him the courage to say how he truly feels.
Love Your Site Rod!!
Posted by: Toy Couture | 09 February 2010 at 06:00
He brings to this mind that God has a sense of humor, and I am laughing
Posted by: Zaidi | 09 February 2010 at 12:59
Who in the snap, crackle, pop, cares what he thinks about this issue?
He should just chit chat about Broadband America, get a doughnut and sit down.
Posted by: Honut Sinti | 09 February 2010 at 18:39