This year has seen Exodus International’s president Alan Chambers drop support for the brand of change therapy called reparative therapy. In response, the therapy’s chief proponent, Dr. Joeseph Nicolosi, has accused Chambers of misrepresenting the practice. Some of what we…
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PFOX Fears Exodus Now Controlled by a Cult
By distancing itself from reparative therapy and affirming the (fairly common) evangelical doctrine of “once saved, always saved,” the still-very-definitely conservative Exodus International has moved just a little bit to the left. Naturally, this leaves true Christians, such as those…
Little information has yet been made public about Restored Hope Network, the new ex-gay organization that seems designed as an alternative to Exodus International. We do know that its founders include two of Exodus’s most outspoken critics, Robert Gagnon and…
In the first definite sign of an organized Exodus International splinter group, former Exodus affliate First Stone Ministries is advertising a conference of the “Restored Hope Network.” The event, from September 21 to 22, features outspoken Exodus critics Robert J…
XGW Digest: July 21, 2012
-The European Union declares that new members must protect LGBT rights. -The Netherlands offers asylum to LGBT Iraqis. -A former Mormon bishop expresses his support for LGBT equality. -The Boy Scouts of America decides to maintain its ban on gay…
Alan Chambers on Gay America (in 2004)
Right-Wing Watch has reported on an egregious anti-gay diatribe by Exodus International President Alan Chambers, published on the Charisma magazine website today. Do We Want a Gay America? Have you noticed that America is becoming a gay nation? The land of the free…
NARTH co-founder Joseph Nicolosi has called on Exodus International head Alan Chambers to take back criticisms he has made of reparative therapy. In particular, Nicolosi, the chief theorist and practitioner of reparative therapy, took exception at the following remarks, which…
Why Is Exodus International So Afraid of ‘Gay’?
Exodus International may be distancing itself from reparative therapy — defined specifically as the gay-to-straight treatment offered by Joseph Nicolosi and NARTH — but it is also at pains to distance itself from another big, bad something: the word GAY….
In June, Ex-Gay Watch noted that First Stone Ministries was one of twenty ministries to have severed itself from Exodus International recently. Now the Oklahoma City-based group has publicly explained its actions in a press release, citing changes in “ideology and…
XGW Digest: July 14, 2012
-China allows lesbians to begin donating blood. -The Vietnamese government ponders the possibility of legalizing marriage equality. -Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer petitions the US Supreme Court to overturn domestic partner benefits for gay couples. -Taiwan’s first gay Buddhist wedding is…