AFA Action Alert
The American Family Associate is at it again. Their most recent "Action Alert" sent out by email urges recipients to write, call, and email the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) protesting that the PTA has excluded an organization styled "Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Ex-Gays" (PFOX) from exhibiting at the June PTA conference. The PTA allows the legitimate organization PFLAG to exibit at the convention. I have written the following letter to the PTA and urge you to write a similar letter. You can email the PTA at info@PTA.org. If you had rather call or fax, the numbers are:

Phone: 312-670-6782
Toll-Free: 800-307-4PTA (4782)
Fax: 312-670-6783

Mr. Michael W. Cathey
Public Relations Manager
National PTA
541 N. Fairbanks Ct.
Ste. 1300
Chicago, IL 60611-3396

Dear Mr. Cathey

I have learned that the American Family Association has targeted the PTA with an email “Action Alert” protesting your excluding advocates for Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Ex-Gays PFOX) as an exhibitor at your convention in Columbus, OH. Their email urges recipients to write you protesting your action. Interestingly the AFA did not provide your address; all letters of protest are to be sent to AFA and forwarded to you.

I want you to know that your are entirely correct in excluding PFOX. Although PFOX has a superficial similarity to the pro-gay group PFLAG, the two groups are similar only in name. PFLAG has the goal of providing education and support to Gay men and women and their friends in combating and correcting the unfairness and ignorance of those who would use this legitimate and natural sexual orientation for ideological and political purposes. PFOX on the other hand exists only to undermine the work of PFLAG by perpetrating the lie that constitutionally homosexuals can somehow ‘change.’ So-called ‘ex-gays’ surface periodically with persons and organizations making claims that homosexuality can be ‘cured.’ This false and dangerous practice has been debunked over and over again and exists only to persecute homosexuals, not to cure
them. Allowing PFOX representation at your convention would be the equivalent of allowing advocates for phrenology at an AMA conference.

I applaud your decision not to allow PFOX at your conference. Please stick to your principals.

Sincerely,
Glynn C. Harper