'Ex-gay' admits ex-gays don't exist
The head of the Florida-based ex-gay group Exodus International admitted that the most people he has met who have gone through reparative therapy are still gay.
“I would say the majority, meaning 99.9 percent of them, have not experienced a change in their orientation or have gotten to a place where they could say that they could never be tempted, or are not tempted in some way or experience some level of same-sex attraction,” Alan Chambers (pictured) confessed during the Gay Christian Network (GCN) earlier this month.
Eight years ago he was singing a very different tune. At the time he claimed to be “one of tens of thousands of people whom have successfully changed their sexual orientation. Change is possible and I am living proof. I used to be homosexual and today I am not.”
“We’re not using change as a slogan anymore,” he now says. “I’m very, very clear to say, we used ‘Change is possible’ for so many years, and it was used on me, and we used it, and the people who used it wanted it to mean something more than it did . . . but we don’t use that phrase anymore.”
Wayne Besen, the founder and executive director of Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that challenges ex-gay ministries, is skeptical of Chambers’ sincerity.
“This is somebody who is so serially dishonest, and changes what he says so frequently, his words are essentially meaningless,” Besen said. “We’re gratified that he has confirmed what we’ve been saying since the founding of our group in 2006: that efforts to change are ineffective.”
Normally, when someone starts softening their position like this, there's a reason; as with so many ex-gay leaders, is someone planning to come out as ex-ex-gay?
World's Top "Ex-Gay" Leader Finally Confesses That Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work! [Instinct Magazine]
Ex-gay leader admits changing sexuality is unlikely [Xtra West]
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