Seventeen, the teenage women’s magazine, profiles Love In Action survivor Wade Richards in its November 2005 edition.
Richards also was featured in the documentary Fish Can’t Fly.
For first-hand information about Richards and more info about the article, check out this guy’s blog.
Seventeen Magazine is highlighting an article about a boi, Wade Richards, who has, a few years ago, supposedly left the “ex-gay” movement. (I read the web site TheSalt at the time)
Oh, my. Do these people never leave the stage?
Raj, I don’t understand the antagonism toward someone who has chosen to speak the truth about his life and his time in the ex-gay movement. If he hadn’t done that, Exodus would still be considering him one of their successes. I’m thankful he spoke out and that he continues to do so.
May I suggest Wade, or anyone desiring to understand same sex attraction read Richard Cohen’s book “Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality”. A Psychotherapist and educator he writes from his own personal experience as well as his patients. It IS possible to leave the homosexual lifestyle when you begin to understand that homosexuality is a symtom. Most cases are a response to an unmet love need, or trama during childhood.
Wade’s experience with LIA (as written in Seventeen) sounded a lot like a brain wash technique and forced denial.
Stonegate Fellowship Church in Midland, TX is another resourse one might try. Mike (Executive Pastor) and Stephanie (Mike’s wife) Goeke share their story of Mike’s personal struggle with homosexuality.
akc- please explain what “the homosexual lifestyle” is.
Boo,Before he/she does that… perhaps they might explain why we should read a book by someone thrown out of the American Counseling Association for ethics violation?And Mike Goeke is a wife-cheating bisexual who is now the “Vice President of Operations for Exodus International”. Where do they find their long suffering wives???
Well, I’m perfectly willing to accept that my homosexuality is the result of an unmet love need. I have an unmet need for hot lovvin from a sexy chick. I bet before you two hooked up you each had an unmet need for hot luvvin from a studly guy.
Goeke tries so hard to find what “turned” him gay. It wasn’t a distant father or oppressive mother or sexual abuse (hmm, I guess he’s never met Miss Fryrear).
It was in 6th grade when someone called him “fag”. Without even knowing what that was, it magically turned him gay. It’s a good thing no one called him “elephant” or today he’d be in a circus.
I have overwhelming reason to believe that a VERY dear friend of mine is currently in Love in Action’s residential program. I’m looking for survivors of this program to talk to. I need to know how to deal with my friend when he exits the program. He has been denied all contact with the outside world with the exception of his parents, who will not tell anyone anything except that he is in “recovery” and that he cannot talk to anyone until he exits.
I am absolutely terrified for him. He is a good person and does not deserve this. Nobody does.
Please. If there is anyone you can direct me to, I’d be very grateful.
Ryan
Ryan, contact Peterson Tuscano.
https://www.a_musing.blogspot.com/
He is a LIA survivor.