Time For 'Ex-Gay' Hordes To March On Washington

[kweerwolf]

I know this is hard to believe, but the "ex-gay" group Exodus International is the next Starbucks. The organization, according to its executive director Alan Chambers, is expanding so fast that it will soon have storefronts on every corner where forlorn homosexuals can pray away the gay.

In 2003, Chambers claimed that there are "thousands of former homosexuals." By 2004, he announced that he knew "tens of thousands of people whom have successfully changed."
Last week, Chambers stunned the world when he boasted to The San Francisco Chronicle that there are "hundreds of thousands" of ex-gays. This must have been shocking news to the masses of gay people in San Francisco's crowded Castro neighborhood, that didn't know they were on the verge of extinction.

Folks, we need to put this mushrooming phenomenon at the top of the gay agenda. Even the success of Brokeback Mountain can't halt the expansion of these free the fairies franchises. If we don't stop Chambers by 2008 - a presidential election year - there will be millions of former homosexuals and most will vote Republican. And by the end of the decade, the number of ex-gays will look like a Bill Gates ATM receipt. Exodus might even have to get a sign, like McDonalds, so we can watch the numbers turn to keep track of the billions of transformed lives.

Sure, it seems like more people are coming out, but in Exodus "surreal-ity" the masses are going back in. I know it appears that gay Pride events are growing larger each year, but is it just the liberal media puffing up the crowd size to hide the fact that Chambers is decimating the annual parades? Thanks to Exodus, will Gay Pride soon be reduced to three stubborn drag queens lip-synching on a flat bed pick up truck?

http://www.waynebesen.com/2006/03/time-for-ex-gay-hordes-to-march-on.html

[xchrom]

1. wait til we take back their toasters!

that'll show 'em.

ya know here's the thing i'm thinking about: i think a lot of people can get caught up in the magic of this thing.

and i certainly think the exgay folk are not above revival tent hucksterism to forward their cause.

well, revival tent hucksterism more magical and extreme than we've seen that is.

[niyad]

2. ummm, has anybody actually SEEN one of these storefronts? I live in

one of the most fundie-drenched communities in this country, and we don't have one (oh, I forgot, we DO have the ex-gay ministry of old I-wish-he-would-focus-on-his-own-damn-family Dobby. does that count?

[mitchtv]

3. Technically, If you die you're no longer gay

Maybe they do the mormon thing and posthumously "convert" them

[terrya]

4. I absolutely agree.

This shit needs to stop. It's blatantly obvious to anyone with a 3 digit IQ that you can't change a person's sexual orientation. Particularly by joining some "ex-gay" group.

These people need to be exposed for the con artists they are. This "ex-gay" movement is nothing but a sham...a cruel hoax perpeuated by the religious right so that they can appear "compassionate"

One thing to do all the time is to refer to this movement as the "ex-gay" movement. Put the words "ex-gay" in quotes all the time. It's pure bullshit and it must shown as such.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. I like that slogan: Pray Away the Gay

It will fit on a bumpersticker, is memorable, the rhythm is good, and it has a nice assonance (no, not a... oh, look it up.)

I can see the infomercials on the 700 club now: Pray Away the Gay in Minutes a Day! Our dvd will show you how. But wait, there's more! You get Pastor Aies' six sermon series, "Be Straight Or Burn In Hell", a 30 day supply of specially blessed holy water and the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit calendar! And if you send in your love offering of $150 in the next thirty minutes, we will also throw in....

[Liberal Veteran]

6. I think it's the same 10 or 20 people de-gaying themselves...

....every year because they are stuck in some sort of bizarre loop where they keep falling off the wagon.

Of course the "ex-gay" folks never do tell us how they determine a person has been successfully "de-gayed".

And what is their five year success rate?

[JackBeck]

7. Kind of like...

re-de-gay the de-gayed ex-gay?

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Pretty much. Another thing I'd like to know about the "ex-gays"

...is what is the percentage of new recruits who have been dumped by a lover in the last month or so.

I'd bet the number is surprisingly high.

[meegbear]

9. The Million Man Sashay

:rofl:

[kevinbgoode]

10. We need to plant ex-ex gays into their midst

and when they do their traveling barnyard revival show, let one of them get up to speak and expose this scam. Plant enough of them in the organization that a different person signs up to speak at each appearance.