Jerry Reiter

Dr. Price, of Jesus Seminar fame, does a greatly detailed coverage of the Apostle Paul, bringing out all the scholarly points about Paul and how he was created over time. This book should have won a major award. It's very powerful.

George's book portrays a loveless home - father an angry Southern Baptist preacher and Mother a silent, submissive cipher who gave George 3 mean brothers who do nothing but torment him. Nobody he meets is ever kind to him, per his tale. Everyone is a bully but him. He really hates bullies. He tells us he has mental health problems his whole life, including depression and persistent suicidal impulses. He self-medicates with drugs and becomes an addict. He blames all this on his orientation, but his big "change" does not include healing for his mental health problems or his addictions, as far as he tells us in his book. He tells us the church he joined was a manipulative cult, but that is all he gives us in terms of Christians who inspired him to "change." He tells us he did not change from lgbt to straight, but from lgbt to celibate angel who never thinks about s..e..x after he gets baptized in a cult-like church. And he never tells us of any love in his family even after he moves back in with his parents, becomes a parrot of his father's sermons, and turns his back on his role as the pink sheep of the family. Sadly, this is the new kind of ex-lgbt story, where a person with mental health problems and addictions denounces lgbt people and is instantly hoisted onto a pulpit to tell the audience lgbt people are all as messed up as he was, and then some. I don't think this is helping anyone. It's pretty pathetic. After his conversion, George spends all his time attacking lgbt people online and on TV shows. The man who hated bullies has become one. And he's paid to do it.