The side blog that Justin created was active for a few days but I’ve checked in occasionally and the conversation came to a halt weeks ago.

Eddy,
Thank you so much for reminding me about Justin’s blog – I hope it continues.

So, are you saying that so far it’s really just been published here?

Right, the site I linked to earlier is one I set up this morning. It’s set up to be hidden from search engines and doesn’t appear in any listings. I only created it for the purpose of discussion with you guys (and whomever else you wanted to invite) and only linked it here. It’s not a public blog or a pre-existing website. It was just a way to take a piece of this discussion and expand it a bit into several sections.
Do you want me to go on pasting the rest of what I’ve posted so far?
–Justin

Section 1: Why This Space?
Based on an ongoing conversation at Warren Throckmorton’s blog, I wanted to open up a space to sort through some of my own ideas and questions on issues pertaining to ex-gays, Christianity, and homosexuality.
I am considered by many to be a leader in the gay Christian community. As such, I am frequently asked to discuss these topics in public. I think it’s important, then, for me to be open, honest, and well-educated about the issue. I don’t want to demonize or misconstrue the views of those who disagree with me.
It seems that many ex-gays are frustrated with the current state of the public discussion on these issues as well. I know that I find these topics frequently blow up and turn into shouting matches on other sites. I’ve been fortunate to have opportunities for open dialogue in the past, and I’d like to recapture some of that.
I’m going to be posting some of my thoughts here, and I welcome feedback from those whose perspective is different from my own. Help me understand you better so that I can be fairer when I discuss this issue in public.
I cannot promise to agree. But I can promise to listen.
–Justin

I don’t believe that this was your intent but, in effect, it seems you are asking us to leave our conversation here to go and have it over at your place. One of the reasons this conversation ended rather abruptly is that a number of us were awaiting your promised comments. Now, it appears we have to go someplace else to get them and discuss them. That isn’t sitting well with me.

Oh dear! That wasn’t my goal at all! I’m more than happy to have the conversation here.
The primary reason I posted the comments on the other site was because you had said that you didn’t think this was the best place for them, since this thread was “tainted” and likely didn’t have many people still following it. I didn’t want to post them on my (pro-gay) site, since that wouldn’t be fair to you, so this morning I took some time and set up a new, entirely private blog just for this conversation. My intent was to only link it here, so that only you guys would have access to it, and then you could invite any others you wanted without forcing them to wade through the negative stuff earlier in this thread.
Also, at the time when I first suggested that I would post some thoughts, they were just a few sketchy ideas in my head. Over the last few weeks I’ve been fleshing them out more, to the point that they’re now quite a few pages long. So I decided to break them down and take them one bit at a time, which seemed easier to do in a fresh space with separate links for each section.
I did it that way, thinking it would be easier on you, not harder, and that it would create a friendlier, more neutral environment for you. I had no idea I was breaching protocol by doing so. Please accept my apologies; give me a few minutes to re-do the HTML code and I’ll paste the first section into my next comment.
–Justin