January 07
Dan Savage’s original post over at SLOG has a few really good comments on the satire/sincere nature of ‘Ol Donnie. Like this one, by a commenter called Actually an Evangelical:
It’s DEFINITELY a joke. The sites are professionally done with unprofessional content. A real organization would have a phone number and an address, not just a gmail account. The band site would have info about its members. There’s not a single Bible verse quoted on any of the sites, and there are pictures of rosary beads. Most ex-gay organizations are evangelical, not Catholic.
Also, there are several little things that make me think it’s a joke by someone who knows the evangelical world inside and out. If you read Davies’ bio, he says his father was an “Anabaptist in Houston.” There are very, very few people who would describe themselves as Anabaptists in Texas or Louisiana. Organizations like this wouldn’t discuss corruption and scandal (and link to the Wikipedia entry on “Ted Haggard”) in the GOP. No self-described reformed homosexual would list Oscar Wilde as a hero. Cyndi Lauper as a “safe band”? Lots of hipster indie bands that most evangelicals have never heard of? The band is called EVENING SERVICE (which may be the funniest double entendre ever)? Puh-lease.
If it is satire, it’s brilliant—mind-shreddingly genius in the same way that the HuffPost’s Contagious Festival’s“The Atheist Delusion” is: delivered so deadpan that the satire is veiled and perfect.
Personally, I don’t care. I will still be the president of the Donnie Davies Fag Club until the end of time.
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…And the fact that no one would be able to launch a god hates fags organization in the evangelical community. Remember how safe and unconfrontational their hate is? They don’t even say the word fag. Well, the asshole teenagers do but not the like leaders. So so a parody. Jesus Christ in C.H.A.P.S.!