Good As You: Exodus International Roundup
09/08/2009
Video: 'Science is now catching up with the Bible'
You tell Learn2Discern: Science Catches Up With the Bible [YT] Okay, let's break this down: -The study with a supposed 53% success rate is not really some new research. It's a continuation of the research of Mark Yarhouse and Stanton...
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08/11/2009
FOF loses ex-gay 'Love'!
It's just been announced that Focus on the Family is cutting its "ex-gay" Love Won Out conferences out of the fam, sending the "gays can change" dog and pony shows to instead live with their Florida-based cousins at Exodus International!...
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08/06/2009
Don't impose on us, says group who calls homosexuality dangerous to America's national health
While the new APA report on "ex-gay" efforts absolutely encourages respect for people of faith and for conservative faith views in general, it's bottom, inarguable line is that (a) faith is not science, and (b) the science surrounding "gay change"...
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07/22/2009
'Ex' communication: PF and 'Odus decide to just be casual friends
Warren Throckmorton, ExGay Watch, and others are reporting that the "ex-gay" advocates at Exodus International are breaking all ties with the ever-fringe PFOX group. This from Throckmorton's blog: Within the last couple of weeks, PFOX gave up affiliation with Exodus....
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05/13/2009
Another day, another group (quietly) admitting a lie
Yesterday it was the Illinois Family Institute. Now America's most prominent "ex-gay" group, Exodus International, has given up the charade that there are "30+ sexual orientations"! Up until this week, whenever someone moused over the word "orientation" on Exodus' site,...
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04/20/2009
They can't even make the date truthful?!
We've noticed that attention to the so-called Day of Truth, the "ex-gay" promoting event that the anti-gay community is throwing today as an attempt to counter Friday's pro-gay Day Of Silence, has been very quiet this year. Yet despite that...
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03/12/2009
Sodomy vs. jointly sodding your shared yard
Think it's only the sex part of homosexuality that earns the ire of professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers? Well guess again. In a new column for Charisma magazine, the Exodus International prez reveals his belief that the mere act of cohabitating...
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02/24/2009
4/20: The 'Truth' is that their booking will rightfully raise some eyebrows
On 4/20/09, the tenth anniversary of the tragic Columbine shooting, American citizens will spend the day remembering victims, mourning losses, and continuing the national conversation about how we can more fully protect our children while at school. Unfortunately on that...
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01/06/2009
The new economy: Some turn to layoffs, others turn off their desire to get laid
The recession isn't hurting everyone. In fact, if this celebratory "ex-downtrodden" press release is to be believed, then the Exodus International "ex-gay" organization saw its package increase in girth during the Bush/Dick administration: Orlando, FL- Churches in denominations troubled over...
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10/06/2008
The Times they are (covering gays in search of) a-changin'
Each evening, a roll-call of “former homosexuals” hold up their husbands and wives like kitemarks of their newfound heterosexuality. We are told repeatedly that marriage is evidence of healing. Stereotypes are the ex-gay currency, and the heterosexual ideal is practically...
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08/26/2008
Unfair movement targets fairer sex
Exodus International, the nation's most well known organization for "curing" and "fixing" homosexuality, has announced a new initiative that specifically targets women. Says the head of the gal-targeting initiative, Yvette Schneider: "The Christian Church must be a place that powerfully...
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07/18/2008
Fun with photos: 'Ex-gay' snack table edition
"Ex-gay" Randy Thomas has posted to his Flickr account several images from this week's Exodus Freedom conference. We have chosen our favorite from the lot: But why is this abstract one our fav, you ask? Well, because the caption possibilities...
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07/15/2008
Exodus summer vacation: Is gayness or reality being vacated?
Today in Asheville, NC, the Exodus International organization is holding day one of their six-day "freedom conference." For those uninitiated, this is the event at which hundreds of gays, religious folks, and family members who think they know more about...
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01/18/2008
Video: True desire doesn't need an ad budget!
Because we know you've been waiting, here now is the commercial for Exodus International's 2008 "Freedom Conference": Wow, great theatrics. If only sexual truth and biological reality were pieces of musical theatre wherein dramaturgs and directors could mold the script...
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01/10/2008
Exodus expands militant agenda
The "ex-gay"-propagating kids at Exodus International have announced that they are forming an extensive church network that will train pastors and members to essentially espouse Exodus' "gays can change" nonsense as if it's the Gospel: Group attempts to bridge gap...
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01/07/2008
'Ex-gay': Don't cherry pick -- that's my job!
Responding to the activists who lashed out against the Pope for a New Year's message wherein he once again undermined gay families by presenting man-woman marriage as the only acceptable coupling, professional "ex-gay" Randy Thomas says the following to Focus...
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11/19/2007
Because costing folks their truths is costly
Exodus International, the most prominent group working to foster the dangerous lie that gays can and should "change" their sexual orientations, has been given a $50,000 matching grant to help finance their endeavors: Grant Helps Exodus Reach Out to Churches...
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10/22/2007
Celibacy is not 'change'
Last Thursday, we showed you how professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers was responding to new research on the causation of homosexuality by saying that a gay gene's finding would not change his outlook on the righteousness of homosexuality. Well now, in...
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09/24/2007
The Chambers Has Two Faces
In their report on the so-called "Family Impact Summit," the People For The American Way's Right Wing Watch blog described professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers like so: We heard a lot about those "ex-gays" and then were addressed by "an ex-gay"...
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09/20/2007
Why rationally analyze when you can irrationally demonize?
Earlier this week, we briefly showed you how Focus on the Family was misusing the findings from a new "ex-gay" study to make it sound as if it definitively shows that 67% of participants were able to "change" their sexual...
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07/31/2007
Careful before staking 'claims' on science, Les
In regards to Courage, a Catholic group that tries to lead gays to lead celibate lives, the Baltimore Sun recently said this: The group is different, however, from those such as Exodus International, an interdemoninational Christian organization that claims to...
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06/27/2007
Video: The father of all 'ex-exgays'
Over at Box Turtle Bulletin, Dan Gonzales has posted nine video clips in which Michael Bussee, one of the co-founders of Exodus international, speaks out against "ex-gay" ministries. Here is the first one: To watch the other eight, head over...
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06/26/2007
'Survivor: Irvine' -- the true reality show
This weekend, while Exodus International holds another of their national "ex-gay" conferences in Irvine, CA, another event will be held to tell people that they are fine just the way they are. Called the Ex-gay Survivor's Conference, this event will...
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06/20/2007
Alan and Stephen: Will they come to blows?
So have you heard about the latest campy cat fight to hit the gay community? No? Well PLEASE, by all means, sit back and let us fill you in! On Monday, an LA Times article came out, wherein the personal...
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06/05/2007
Video: Another 'ex-gay' non-success story
Peter Toscano of the Beyond Ex Gay group has traveled to Madrid to meet with Jose Luis Maccarone, a man who formerly served as a pro-"ex-gay" missionary with Exodus International. But now, after living ten years as a re-closeted gay...
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05/23/2007
Video: And at Sears, what sort of tools were you seeking?
This is Shawn O'Donnell, a man who spent four years in New Hope, a part of the Exodus International "ex-gay" ministry: Yea, this writer? Very gay. Like GAY gay. Never have I truly doubted and never have I tried to...
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02/26/2007
On 'ex-gays', the APA, and pressure
So once again, Focus on the Family's Family News in Focus is staunchly supporting the "ex-gay" notion and chastising those who oppose the dangerous movement. This time their support for the "gays can change" idea comes in light of the...
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10/17/2006
GLSEN has Ally Week, Exodus has 'Allies, Too'; Our own 'Kate & Allie" month bound to get overshadowed
In order to counter GLSEN's Ally Week -- a weeklong celebration in which straight allies are encouraged to support safe schools for LGBT students -- the "ex-gay"-advocating folks at Exodus are launching something called "Allies, Too," which they say is...
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08/10/2006
'Ex-gays' to protest APA; 'leopards who've changed their spots' to sit this one out
The "gays can change"-touting folks at Exodus International have announced that they'll protest tomorrow (Aug. 11) at the American Psychological Association's national convention, because they say "the APA has moved away from its mission to improve the welfare of its...
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07/13/2005
'Ex-gays' celebrate 30 years of bullsh*t
The week of July 18, Exodus International (who bill themselves as the world's largest "ex-gay ministry") will be commemorating 30 years of masking raging homophobia behind a veil of false compassion, when they gather for their annual "Freedom Conference" in...
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