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Snuckles
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posted 29 June 2007 05:36 PM      Profile for Snuckles   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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They cite psychological harm they caused gays as the ministry, Exodus International, meets in Irvine.

By Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writer
June 28, 2007

Three former leaders of Exodus International, often described as the nation's largest ex-gay ministry, publicly apologized Wednesday for the harm they said their efforts had caused many gays and lesbians who believed the group's message that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer.

Speaking at a Hollywood news conference, the former leaders of the interdenominational Christian organization said they had acted sincerely in their years of work with Exodus. But they said they had all, over time, become disillusioned with the group's ideas and concerned about what they described as the wrenching human toll of such gay conversion efforts.

The news event, in a courtyard outside an office of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, was timed to coincide with the opening of Exodus' annual conference, which is being held this week at Concordia University in Irvine. A competing "ex-gay survivor" convention is to begin Friday at UC Irvine.


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Michelle
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posted 29 June 2007 06:12 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This is wonderful to hear. These men are just as much victims as perpetrators. They were brainwashed for years into thinking their orientation was evil, and they wanted to save themselves and the people around them.

I'm glad they are apologizing and working publicly against Exodus. It's a fitting penance.


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500_Apples
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posted 29 June 2007 08:00 PM      Profile for 500_Apples   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The power of therapy is I believe vastly overrated, both in sexuality manipulation and elsewhere.

As far as i know, of all sexuality types, be it vanilla heterosexuality, homosexuality, agressive sexuality, paedophilia, et cetera; None has proven malleable to threapeutic manipulation. It's too bad because for the two latter two we might actually want a "cure". Perhaps sexuality is fundamental to the human condition that sitting on a couch and talking to a bald guy nodding his head is not going to prove a very effective agent of change.

Good to read of these men helping discredit the ex-gay movement.


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Will S
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posted 29 June 2007 08:25 PM      Profile for Will S        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hopefully other leaders of ex-gay groups will hear of this and think twice about the suffering their programs cause.
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