Milo Yiannopoulos: Straight and Back on Campus — to “Pray the Gay Away”

By Selwyn Duke

This “is the first time in at least half a century that a publicly funded university has directly poured money into the coffers of evil Catholic conversion therapists!” So said the ever-colorful Milo Yiannopoulos, sarcastically, at Penn State University on November 3 in a talk titled “Pray the Gay Away.”

It’s the first time in four years that “Milo,” as his fans would call him, has appeared on a college campus, and much has changed during his absence. Oh, he’s still on the “right”; still has bleached hair, at least partially; still is sharp as a whip with rapier wit; and still is controversial. But then there’s the difference: Yiannopoulos has “come out” — as straight.

It’s a striking transformation for the man who once said that while he considered homosexuality a choice, dispensing with his would destroy his career. But then Yiannopoulos announced, earlier this year, that he was “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free.” He also stated that he was leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online, saying that people can’t conquer sin via purely secular means; God’s grace is necessary. Now he has reportedly come full circle, going to confession and coming into full communion with the Catholic Church.

But just as striking as Yiannopoulos’s conversion, and his reversion, is what….

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