Out of Oregon, via the Willamette Weekly, comes the tale of a 25 year old double-ex who has just become the assistant pastor at Metropolitan Community Church of Portland.
[A]t the ripe age of 16, he joined forces with the ex-gay movement that claims to “cure” queers of their homosexuality. For several years, in ex-gay groups like “True Hope…For the Best Alternative,” Mullins tried to “fix” himself and get his “demons” out of his spirit.
He finally realized nothing was changing, gave up on his old god, found faith in a new God, attended seminary, fell in love, married his hubby, and moved to Oregon to oversee a worship service geared to young adults. Happy Ending.
I wonder if young Mike Ensley of Exodus will follow that path eventually.
Lets hope the entire ex-gay movement (or at least most of it) slowly fades away like that. who knows, maybe a few of them will ALWAYS believe they totally changed, maybe one or two of them did. But I can’t imagine 20-30 years from now there being more ex-gays than there are today.
30 years ago when the ex-gay movement started nobody thought it would last. So it could last for 20-30 more years.
There will probably always be at least a small number of gay people trying to deny their orientation for religious reasons. Once we have equal rights and groups like Focus on the Family no longer find it profitable to use us as a scare tactic for fundraising and political purposes, the exgay movement will pretty much fade back into the shadows.