Reply #79: The "Ex-Gay" industry is a nothing but hate [View All]

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masquerading as love and "therapy".

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For decades, Exodus International had disingenuously claimed that it had no agenda but to “change” gay people into heterosexuals. But now this pretense has been stripped away as we see that its real aim is to change laws so that GLBT people will remain a persecuted minority.

“The lives of thousands of former homosexuals, like me, verify that homosexuality is not an immutable trait, therefore marriage is not a civil right to be casually granted to any group who demands it,” said Chambers in a press release.

The reason the president is embracing Exodus is because polls show that Americans who believe homosexuality can be cured are far more likely to support anti-gay legislation. For example, a November 2004 Lake, Snell, Perry and Associates poll shows that 79 percent of people who think homosexuality is inborn support civil unions or marriage equality. Among those who believe sexual orientation is a choice, only 22 percent support civil unions or marriage rights.


Although Exodus leaders pretend they love openly gay people, their true feelings are transparent. “As a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch,” Chambers once lovingly told an Orlando newspaper.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20060613193338/http://www.truthwinsout.org/news.

Potential Messages to Countering
the Anti -Gay Television Ad Blitz

Background
Religious political extremist groups are scheduled to launch a $2 to 4 million antigay
national television ad campaign in early 1999. The campaign is titled “Truth In
Love” and will feature “ex-gays” who say they are now heterosexual through prayer,
“ex-gay” ministries and “reparative” therapy. The ads will be very similar to the incendiary
newspaper advertising campaign that received national attention last summer
with headlines such as “From Innocence To AIDS.”

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Primary Messages
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• This ad campaign is not about love. It is about politics. This campaign has very
little to do with “changing” gay people, and a whole lot to do with changing laws
that protect gay and lesbian Americans from discrimination.


Second-Tier Messages
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• This reckless, divisive rhetoric creates a climate where fear and hatred can flourish,
and this often leads to violence against gay and lesbian Americans.

• All respected mental health and medical organizations reject “ex-gay” ministries
and reparative therapy.

Third-Tier Messages

• These ads incorrectly imply that gay and lesbian Americans are not people of faith.
The fact that the largest gay organization in the world is the Metropolitan
Community Church shows the depth of spirituality within our community.

• This ad campaign dehumanizes gay people by falsely claiming that they are broken
and defective and need to be fixed. Most gay people who are out of the closet live
rich, fulfilling and productive lives. Gay people don’t need to be changed. What
needs to be changed is discriminatory behavior that divides society.

• Most people who have been through these ministries — and call themselves ex-ex
gays— refer to their experience as psychological terrorism.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20070112073903/http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Publications1/Responding_to_Anti_Gay_Change_Ads/agpb.pdf



"Ex-Gay" groups do not work out of love. They work out of hate. They are not trying to help, they are trying to harm. They are trying to take our rights away and eradicate us. They are hate groups.