A "White Marriage" - A Perfect Model for "Ex-gays"

I will concede that I missed the first episode of GCB - Good Christian Belles. But from the media coverage it seems that the first episode showcased a perfect model for marriage between "ex-gays" and "ex-gays" and their camouflage providing straight spouses. What's a "white Marriage"? The Free Dictionary defines it as a "marriage without sexual relations." That model obviously works for "celibate ex-gays." But what about those who have found that "change doesn't really occur despite what the Bible beaters say? For them, a perhaps more realistic "white marriage" is where the couple grits their teeth, have relations, produce a couple of children and thereafter go their own sexual ways in pursuit of the same sex relationships that they truly seek. Even though the marriage is a fraud, the ex-gays can parade their spouses and children about as proof that they are "ex-gay." Community Voices looks at the plot behind the first GCB episode. Here are some highlights:

On his new show, ABC's "GCB" (10 p.m. Sunday, WTAE), the actor [Mark Deklin] gets to smile. A lot.

In last night's episode Deklin's Blake even managed to smile through some personal sadness as the show's writers revelaed the extent of his wife's knowledge about his sexual orientation. The premiere episode of "GCB" clued viewers in that Blake is gay and last night's episode revealed Blake's wife, Cricket (Miriam Shor), signed on to the marriage with the understanding that he'd be having sex with men on the side. The couple even share opposite sides of an extra-wide bed.

Deklin said when he signed on to appear in "GCB" he wasn't sure how to approach Blake and his relationship with Cricket.

"I have 100 or so gay friends and they're all out. I don't know anyone in the closet," he said. So he consulted executive producer Robert Harling. "Bobby said there's this peculiar thing in the South called a 'white marriage,' it's an open secret, almost like the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell. Husbands and wives who grew up together and are from dynastic, wealthy families, and they decide to get married and have 'our little secret' and they won't talk about it. Bobby said he was always fascinated by that dynamic. I was very naive. I thought it was something nobody did anymore and I've since learned it's more common than we think."

Yes, it involves living a lie, but as this blog has noted many, many times, no one lies more often and with more duplicity than "godly Christians" who pat themselves on their backs for their own piety.