Focus On The Family Closing ''Gay Conversion'' Workshops

[DeSwiss]

Focus on the Family giving up its money-losing gay workshops

The Denver Post
By Electa Draper
Updated: 08/13/2009 02:31:19 PM MDT


Jim Daly, president of Focus on the
Family, told donors that Focus faces
a "serious budget shortfall."
(The Denver Post)

Focus on the Family will shed its controversial Love Won Out program for transforming homosexuals into heterosexuals because of budget troubles, the conservative media ministry said Tuesday. The Colorado Springs-based ministry made the announcement in The Washington Blade, the country's oldest gay and lesbian newspaper.

The Love Won Out conferences on "leaving homosexuality" will be handed over in November to a longtime ministry partner, Orlando, Fla.-based Exodus International. "The economic challenges led us to this strategic decision," Focus vice president Gary Schneeberger said Wednesday. "Love Won Out is not an inexpensive event to stage, and rarely, in over 50 cities where it's been held, have we ever made back our investment, despite good attendance."

Focus on the Family, which held its first Love Won Out conference in 1998, will lead its last on Nov. 7 in Birmingham, Ala. A $6 million shortfall in the $138 million budget also caused Focus president Jim Daly to send out a fundraising letter to 800,000 donors.

"Right now we're facing a serious budget shortfall that threatens our ability to reach out to parents, families and married couples who count on our help," Daly wrote. "I want to assure you we're committed to good stewardship and living within our means, just as so many families are today."

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persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

[Monk06]

1. So they can cure the gay but it's just too danged expensive ...........

Read: this particular scam didn't work out because
not enough right wing gays where willing to pay
money for the privilege of humiliating themselves
in public

[DeSwiss]

2. I guess Satan had a bigger budget than they did....

...but seriously, these people are dangerous. (http://www.examiner.com/x-4107-Gay--Lesbian-Issues-Examiner~y2009m8d5-APA-report--Gay-conversion-therapy-can-cause-depression-and-suicide-attempts">APA: Gay conversion therapy can cause depression and suicide attempts - 8/5/09)

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Donnie McClurkin's job market tightens

one less outlet for the haters.

[Toasterlad]

4. It Takes $138 MILLION to Keep Manufacturing Hate?

You know, I'd really like to make a joke about this, but it's just too fucking sad. Likewise, I'd like to be happy that all those idiotic morons who donate to these evil sociopaths are being bilked of their money, but I'm not. I'm just so weary of all this nonsense.

2009, and people are still walking around believing that all this began with a talking snake in a tree. To quote Casey Kasem: "Ponderous. Fucking ponderous."

[FreepFryer]

5. Damn, I waited too long. It works on straights too, right? (n/t)

[WillParkinson]

6. Drat...

And I was so looking forward to ruining my upcoming gay marriage by turning straight.

:sarcasm:

[Starry Messenger]

7. Good! I hope they all go out of business.

I stumbled onto a blog yesterday written by a young man who is going through this "ex-gay" garbage through his church. It was heartbreaking to read. :(

[Meeker Morgan]

8. Perhaps they really thought they could "cure" us? n/t

[Libertas1776]

9. Once again

all I have to say is...FUCK THE FAMILY!!!!!

[LeftHander]

10. That is because insurance no longer pays for it....

The recent declaration by a national organization of Psychiatric whatever said you can't make gay people un-gay.

So all the bible bangers with faith based insurance found they no longer could get free brainwashing for johnny to keep him from sucking dick at the rest stop up the road from the suburb.

[Laughing Mirror]

11. "Rarely have we ever made back our investment"

Budget troubles.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!