Tag Archives: Exodus International

Exodus International Conference Promo

You get to watch this one without audio, because Warner Brothers has zapped Exodus for using copyrighted music.

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HomoQuotable – Alan Chambers

“Despite the familiar human desire to throw the stone in my hand at Dr. Rekers, I cannot. He is a human who seems to have made a mistake. He is a Christian who seems to be guilty of practicing what he has preached against. It is that fact that alone causes the deepest feelings of anger to arise no matter …

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HomoQuotable – Alan Chambers

“According to both Dawson [McCallister] and his CEO (who also spoke with me by phone) this severance had nothing to do with disagreement. The CEO, in fact, assured me they still love Exodus and believe in what we are doing, which bothers me all the more. When organizational relations end, due to irreconcilable differences of belief or practice, that makes …

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Exodus Co-Founder: It Never Worked

Box Turtle Bulletin interviewed Exodus International co-founder Michael Bussee, who says he never once saw his former organization’s “ex-gay” program actually turn somebody straight.

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Top 40 Radio Teen Advice Host Says He’ll End Partnership With Exodus

Only a few days after learning that nationally syndicated radio advice host Dawson McCallister was directing sexually questioning teens to the “ex-gay” group Exodus International, the NGLTF reports that Clear Channel has pressured him to end the practice. Clear Channel’s statement: Although Clear Channel, its Premiere Radio Networks and its radio stations are not involved in the operation of the …

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Sorry About That, Exodus

I guess them there “ex-gays” at Exodus International didn’t care for our freeping of their anti-gay youth Day Of Truth poll yesterday – they’ve yanked it from their site. [Insert Nelson laugh.]

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Ex-Gay Sadists Exodus International’s Campaign In Support Of Anti-Gay Bullying

The “ex-gay” sadists at Exodus International are endorsing the beating, bullying, and torturing of gay youth through their Day Of Truth campaign against GLSEN’s coming Day Of Silence. Below they interview students at the University of Central Florida (second mention of my alma mater today, but not as funny), asking them about God’s view on homosexuality. Jeremy at Good As …

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Exodus International Launches Campaign In Support Of Anti-Gay Bullying

GLSEN’s national Day Of Silence is six weeks away, but the “ex-gay” mental cases at Exodus International have already launched their “Day Of Truth” campaign to stop students from being taught that it’s wrong to beat up and harass gay kids. According to Exodus, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund is standing by with 1200 attorneys to represent anybody that faces …

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Tweet Of The Day – Alan Chambers

Exodus International president, author of Leaving Homosexuality, and anti-marriage equality activist Alan Chambers is talking about his wife, people. His cisgender, legally married in Jeebus’ name, wife. I don’t what you all were thinking.

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NYT Finally Weighs In On Uganda

The New York Times has finally noticed the now months-long debacle over Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, in an article about the three American evangelicals largely blamed for spawning the proposed legislation. Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of …

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Catfight! Porno Pete Vs. Bam Bam Barber

America’s two most-reviled homophobes are battling each other about a repulsive remark that Peter LaBarbera attributed to the Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber. It all started over Barber’s announcement that he would lead a wingnut boycott of CPAC if GOProud was allowed to remain a co-sponsor. Round One, Porno Pete: It boils down to this: there is nothing “conservative” about — …

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Surviving The “Ex-Gay” Industry

How blatantly bizarre and predatory does “ex-gay reparative therapy” have to be for even the mental cases at Exodus International to disavow you? Here’s some of what their “therapist” at their Lansing, Michigan affiliate did to young Patrick McAlvey. “He asked how large my penis was. He asked if I shave my pubic hair. He asked what type of underwear …

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Alabama Hosts Convention Of Still Completely Homosexual “Ex-Gays”

Focus On The Family’s final “ex-gay” conference is being held in Birmingham this weekend, where anti-“ex-gay” activist Wayne Besen spoke at the University of Alabama to expose the myths and dangers of their “pray away the gay” campaign. Embroiled in financial difficulties and layoffs, Focus of the Family has handed off their “ex-gay” conference business to Exodus International, an organization …

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Budget Crunch: Focus On The Family Hands Off Its “Ex-Gay” Program

In the midst of a $6M budget shortfall, the cash-strapped Focus On The Family is transferring the operation of its Love Won Out series of “ex-gay” conferences to Exodus International. “Exodus is the ideal organization to transition Love Won Out to,” said Melissa Fryrear, director of Love Won Out. She noted that Focus on the Family and Exodus have been …

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HomoQuotable – Alan Chambers

“The key thought here is the opposite of homosexuality isn’t heterosexuality. It’s holiness. There are people who are conflicted with their sexuality, involved with homosexuality, and there is a way out for those who want it. But it doesn’t say that they’re going into heterosexuality, because that’s not the point. The point is that people can leave whatever it is …

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Tonight In Illinois: Protest Against Exodus International

If you’re in the Chicago area, you might want to join the Gay Liberation Network’s protest against Exodus International (PDF), who are opening their national “We’re totally not gay anymore, we swear!” convention tonight. Exodus International is the nation’s foremost organization claiming to use Christianity to turn LGBT people into “ex-gays.” And while they say they “love” us, their fake …

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