My day with the ex-gays

[kweerwolf]

(Lest anyone get the idea from the title of this threat that "I" spent any time with these cretins, I should point out that it's from New England's Bay Windows newspaper.)

Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus International, the world's largest ex-gay resource and referral organization, believes that Satan is plotting to turn people gay from deep within the bowels of Hell. He said as much in Exodus's October newsletter, telling people that the work of the ex-gay movement was literally a battle against evil. He wrote, "One of the many evils this world has to offer is homosexuality. Satan, the enemy, is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can. Our job is simple: wage war against the Kingdom of Darkness and save souls."

Not that he talks this way in mixed company. When I referenced the Exodus newsletter at a press conference for Love Won Out, an ex-gay conference held at Boston's Tremont Temple Baptist Church Oct. 29 and asked Chambers if he believed homosexuality, gay marriage and the gay movement were Satanic, the last thing he wanted to discuss was Satan.

"I don't know if my words were exactly that, but I believe that homosexuality is not what God intended for his creations," said Chambers. "The ministry of Exodus for 30 years has been helping men and women come out of homosexuality. Gay marriage, all the things we have spoken of today, are things that I believe are counterfeits, as was mentioned, to the relationships that God intended for his creations, so I would see those things as what we are here to talk about today."

That sounded far too moderate from a man who believed himself engaged in a holy war. I pressed on, again referencing his newsletter and asking him what role Satan and the Kingdom of Darkness played in the debate over homosexuality. And again, he refused to discuss the devil in polite company.

http://www.baywindows.com/media/paper328/news/2005/11/03/News/My.Day.With.The.ExGays-1044337.shtml

[shireen]

1. what a freakin' asshole!

If that self-loathing self-righteous knuckle-head Chambers believes that gays can be turned straight, maybe he believes in sprouting an extra arm to help carry more grocery bags.

It's BIOLOGY, Stupid!

:mad:

[Chipper Chat]

2. Re-read this article

substituting the word "republican" for 'gay,' and "The Republican Party" for 'homosexuality.
See if that doesnt make your day a little brighter.

[DJ MEW]

6. That does help a lot thanks

It actually helps to explain more about human behavioral patterns then it does the original way.

[davidinalameda]

3. these people are roaches

they scurry off when anyone turns the light on them

I was reading one of the RW sites this morning and to hear these people, the fags invaded the conference and were "terrorizing" these poor bible beaters

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47185

[kweerwolf]

4. Well, in "World Nuts Daily" what do you expect! ... LOL!

Maybe it's time we start "terrorizing" their meetings, just so they can tell when they really are being terrorized.

It's way past time we put up with bashing from this alleged "christians" who twist the cross into a swastika and start bashing back.

[DJ MEW]

5. Tried to read the article

got about half way down and got too pissed off. I hate how they can do what they do.

Act all concerned and caring and compassionate but at the heart of it is still something that is evil and destructive to most people. Teaching people how to deny their own identity to ensure that they are the way others expect them to be is so wrong.

My favorite talking point in the whole thing,
"Throughout the day, LGBT people were presented as victims who had been driven into homosexuality by a combination of distant fathers, overbearing mothers, and sexual abuse."

All things considered I have great parents and I was never abused. For how much these people are will to just accept the explanation that some things just are (creationism is based on the argument that things just are), they seem to have problems believing that homosexuality just is.

[xchrom]

7. lol -- ok if chambers is the punch line

then what's the joke?

what a creepy character -- sleazy creepy.

and by the way ''god intended for his creations''?

somebody better tell the penguins.