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“Ex-gays” lobbied Congress. Maybe they should stop having gay sex first.
“You know what I spent my time doing? Dealing with leaders in ‘ex-gay’ ministries who were having sex with the people who were coming to them for help.”
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The shameless ‘Pray Away the Gay’ industry has launched a cynical rebranding effort
History shows the only movement we’ve seen are “ex-gay” activists transforming into out and proud members of the LGBT community.
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Former reparative therapy leader John Smid marries same-sex partner
John Smid, the former Executive Director of Love in Action — an ex-gay Christian ministry that purported to “restore those trapped” in homosexuality — has married his same-sex partner in Oklahoma.
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Purveyors of ‘ex-gay’ therapy, Exodus International says it’s shutting down
Exodus International, the nation’s oldest and largest Christian ministry devoted to performing controversial gay-to-straight “reparative therapy,” announced Wednesday night that it is shuttering its operations after more than three decades.
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The Top 10 Ex-Gay Stories of 2011
In June, I penned a column, “The Fall of the Ex-Gay Myth,” which predicted that so-called “ex-gay” programs would crumble from internal rot. “It’s time for the discredited ‘ex-gay’ myth to simply go away and be rightfully viewed as an experiment that was tried and failed,” I wrote at the time. In the months since this column was written the decline of these “pray away the gay” organizations has only accelerated.
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Of all the ‘ex-gay’ ministries, John Smid’s ‘was the most cult-like’
For decades, John Smid had been the leader of Love in Action, the infamous “ex-gay” ministry that took away the underwear of clients if the undergarments appeared too gay. The strict Memphis-based ministry also used an egg timer in the bathroom to make sure its clients would not masturbate while showering.
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Former ‘ex-gay’ leader comes out, says he ‘can no longer condemn gays’
John Smid, the former Executive Director of Exodus International’s oldest ministry “Love in Action,” has publicly admitted that he is gay, and now says that being LGBTQ is an intrinsic part of a person’s being, not a “behavior” that one can repent from.