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Alan Chambers: “I have to be honest and say, ‘Of course I have temptations. Of course I have attractions related to the same sex.’ But for over 15 years since I’ve been in a relationship with Leslie, my attraction is for her.” He adds, “Am I heterosexual? I don’t know. I’m not gay.” Since Chambers announced the end of his …

Back in April I reported that former Exodus International chairman John Paulk had made some interesting changes to his Facebook profile. Yesterday Truth Wins Out took the story further: “Ex-gay” poster couple John and Anne Paulk may be Splitsville. Sources tell Truth Wins Out today that John has moved out of the couple’s Portland, Oregon home. Other sources in Portland …

“For Exodus, as a position led by Alan Chambers and he’s not the only one in leadership there that are really misled, for them to pull the plug on kids and just abandon them, this is just the stereotype of men who are not being men, shall I just go there, because that’s what it is. Just don’t defend anything, …

“Chambers has said he doesn’t believe a person can change his or her so-called sexual orientation. Now, there’s not anything like this invented term called ‘sexual orientation’ in Scripture in the first place, but then he also says that he still struggles himself with sexual feelings for other males. This shows very poor judgment as the leader of this ministry …

(From the Dallas Voice via Zack Ford.)

“So we’ve gone from Boys in the Band to Stonewall through forty years of the gay rights movement and forty years of an anti-gay backlash funded by the religious right and twenty years of an ex-gay ‘movement’ that promised ‘freedom from homosexuality’ only to arrive right back where we started: Alan Chambers is a sad and pathetic man. He’s a …

“For 36 years, First Stone Ministries has been affiliated with Exodus International, a network of ministries that all proclaim freedom from homosexuality through relationship with Jesus Christ. Over the last several months, the leadership of First Stone Ministries has become increasingly aware of some changes in Exodus’s ideology and leadership that have resulted in us feeling we are unable to …

Even if Jesus finally gets you to stop stealing, that doesn’t mean you’re not still tempted to shoplift in Wal-Mart. But however fucked up way they get there, the increasing Christianist move away from brainwashing and torture is certainly welcome. Now they just want you to endure a lifetime of untouched, unloved celibacy.

“As the president of Exodus International and, even more than that, as a Christian leader who is out in front of people all the time, it is my responsibility to lead honestly and transparently and to share with people that, just because you become a Christian,…your struggles don’t always go away. You don’t get to a place where you’re never …

The “ex-gay” industry has been rocked to its core this year. First the head of its most infamous group announced that not one person had ever actually been “cured.” Then the researcher who authored the most widely cited “ex-gay” study recanted his findings and apologized to the gay community. So maybe it’s not surprising that nobody wants to attend an …

You may remember John Paulk as the nationally infamous “ex-gay” activist once touted on the cover of Newsweek as the poster boy and chairman for Exodus International. Paulk was chased out of the organization some time later after activist Wayne Besen accosted him in a DC gay bar, where Paulk claimed he had only dropped in to get directions on …

Last night Rachel Maddow tackled the recent wave of “ex-gay” leaders and researchers recanting their claims that sexual orientation can be changed. Watch this.

“The majority of people that I have met, and I would say the majority meaning 99.9 percent of them, have not experienced a change in their orientation or have gotten to a place where they could say that they could never be tempted or are not tempted in some way or experience some level of same-sex attraction. I think that …

Pat Robertson’s CBN covers the naming of “ex-gay” leader Alan Chambers as “Christian Hero Of The Year.” Conveniently, CBN makes no mention of the many, many former Exodus leaders, founders, and followers who have revealed that not one person in the organization has ever actually successfully become a heterosexual.

“Satan’s strategy is leading humans astray, whether the arena is doctrinal or moral, is to deceive an individual into thinking that what God has forbidden is not really wrong or destructive, but is, in fact, life enhancing. So it was I the garden when Satan tempted Eve; so it may well be with your loved one. The sin of homosexuality …

“Personally, I’ve tried to engage the lions. Tried to have conversations and build relationships with the lions. I think what I’ve noticed is there is less of a desire to dialogue, to agree to disagree, than there ever has been before. It’s like (our opposition is saying), ‘We are out to win, and if you will not completely come to …

Ex-Gay Watch reports that Orlando-based “ex-gay” self-haters Exodus International is in dire financial straits and just held an emergency “secret” meeting about fundraising. Exodus President Alan Chambers called a meeting together this past November 16. The subject was quite simply how to keep Exodus International from social and financial oblivion. In attendance were Exodus leadership, prominent religious leaders (such as …

Longtime JMG readers will recognize a certain nutcase.

“So often people will say someone needs to ‘repent’ from homosexuality. It is something that actually cannot be repented of! People are, or they are not, homosexual. It is an intrinsic part of their being or personally, my being. One cannot repent of something that is unchangeable. I have gone through a tremendous amount of grief over the many years …