I learned about ex-straight.org, the site of Parents & Friends of Ex-Straights (PFOXS), from a this post at Teach the Facts which highlighted the site’s discussion topics:

* Is heterosexuality a choice?
* What legislation discriminates against former heterosexuals?
* Why must questioning youth have access to sexual reorientation information? (I love the answer to this one, it sounds so familiar: Teenagers experiencing opposite sex attractions do not automatically mean that they are heterosexual. Many teens go through temporary episodes of idealization of opposite sex peers and should not be urged to prematurely label themselves as straight. PFOXS refers to this as the “straight jacket”, where a single opposite sex romance is used by family and friends to unfairly define a teenager’s sexual orientation. This is coercive, restraining, and unfair.)
* Do gay activists oppose efforts to protect the equal rights of former heterosexuals?
* Why would anyone want to go from being straight to being gay? Doesn’t that open you to abuse and discrimination? (The answer: In a word, yes.)

Sex-Ed Panel Aims to Sway Lessons on Gays, an article from today’s Washington Post about Montgomery County’s new sex education curriculum and how it will include the teaching of homosexuality, led me to TeachtheFacts.org.