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Remember Harry and Louise, the whiny yuppies who bad-mouthed Clinton's health-care bill to death? Well, meet their evil twins, Anne and John Paulk, the poster couple for the notion that homosexuality can be stopped if only heterosexuality is embraced. Once gay and unbelieving, Anne and John accepted Christ and then each other: one cured homosexual married one saved lesbian. There's a Jack for every Jill in the land of the Christian right...
...Paulks are at the center of a campaign by a coalition of Christian-right groups that placed full-page ads in the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today last week. The Times ad features a big picture of Anne, who claims to have been saved by Exodus International, a ministry that believes gayness can be overcome by "ongoing submission to the Lordship of Christ." The ad quotes extensively from "The Other Way Out: The Stories of John and Anne Paulk" (and thanks Trent Lott for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin). Anne...
...help thinking, Are these people really gay, or is it Memorex? When contacted by TIME, Anne Paulk refused to identify the woman with whom she had had a serious affair and conceded that her ties to women in college were "more emotional than sexual" anyway. But she insists "they would have led to sexual relationships" had they continued. Her husband, a former Kinko's manager now with Exodus, is more defensive about his wife's credentials. "It doesn't matter whether she dated 400 women or one. She was a lesbian." So there...