Source: Peterson Toscano’s A Musing No one has perfect parents, and parents and their adult children need to talk about past hurts and family issues, but often without any trained counselors, after only a few days of group therapy, ex-gay…
Live-In Programs
Ann Phillips, who is a former Exodus local group leader and former women’s program director at the Exodus flagship live-in program Love In Action, will speak at the gay-friendly Evangelicals Concerned women’s retreat July 25-27, 2007 in Orange, Calif. For 10…
Peterson And Love In Action on Current.tv
Just a quick reminder, if this video gets enough votes it’ll air on Current.tv’s actual TV station. A while back Mike Ensley of Exodus had an interview posted to Current.tv.
Survivors of Ex-Gay Ministry on Montel
Peterson Toscano and Lance Carroll — both survivors of Exodus’ flagship live-in boot camp, called Love In Action — were on Montel yesterday (02/20/07) each briefly discussing their experiences with the ex-gay movement.
If one reads the news coverage following pretty much any Love Won Out conference it quickly becomes obvious they are attended primarily by family, friends and clergy rather than actual ex-gays or gays. As I’ve stood at the driveways to…
Love In Action / Refuge’s Predecessors
Reason Magazine, a periodical with a strongly libertarian bent, has an article by Maia Szalavitz that discusses the forebears of ex-gay live-in program Love In Action/Refuge. The focus of the article is on teenage drug rehabilitation programs but some of…
Where Are Exodus’ Guidelines to Protect Youth?
As we previously reported here, Exodus president Alan Chambers writes in his new book: Anyone, no matter his or her background, should be carefully screened before being entrusted with precious children. As with any childcare worker, criminal background checks should…
Randy Thomas (membership director for Exodus International, the largest “ex-gay” group in the country) was interviewed recently on the Adam Carolla radio show and claimed nobody is ever forced to attend an “ex-gay” program against their will. This video examines…
Love In Action Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee
This is a follow-up to Love In Action’s Day in Court. Love In Action Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee. Excerpt: On Friday, Love in Action announced a settlement in which the state agreed that the facilities did not need to be…
REFUGE, the new name for Love In Action, Memphis Tennessee, is a daughter ministry of Love In Action International, the largest member ministry of Exodus International. You will remember it from Zach’s story last year. One of the questions floating…