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01/15/2015

Huckabee, Santorum join professional 'ex-gay' as conservative conference headliners

by Jeremy Hooper

Janet Boynes is a professional "ex-gay" activist who runs a ministry for people "struggling with unwanted same sex attraction." And in just a few weeks, you can see Janet when she serves as one of the five confirmed headlining speakers at the Liberty Counsel's annual Awakening conference.

Oh, and two of the other confirmed speakers? They are both seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination (with a third possible '16 candidate, Ted Cruz, listed as the "invited"):

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No huge surprise. The "ex-gay" nonsense is always still just a degree of separation away from mainstream GOP acceptability. Hell, Huckabee and Santorum would likely appoint Boynes to a newly-created Cabinet position. Secretary of Snake Oil, or something like that.

I just hope that as the media begins what now seems to be a legitimate drumbeat on all things 2016, this kind of stuff becomes a big part of the story of people like Huckabee and Santorum, who are talked about as mainstream contenders in a mainstream party. Their outreach is anything but.

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