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Ex-Gay group Exodus International is launching a billboard campaign attempting to show that homosexuals can pray away the gay. The first billboard will be in Orlando, presumably to annoy the well-adjusted attending Gay Day at Disney.
What is most noticeable in the ad, is that the ex-gays used are the same tired queens that are in all of their ads. If there are tens of thousands of ex-gays, as Exodus claims, why do they and Focus on the Family keep recycling the same five people?
I have provided billboards from two separate ex-gay campaigns. Mike Haley is used in both - and he's even wearing the same tired plaid shirt. What I find disturbing is that at least three (Mike Haley, Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas) of the people featured on the new billboard make their living off of their ex-gay testimony. In other words, they are getting paid to say they have "changed".
Exodus and other ex-gay groups would have more credibility if they didn't continuously highlight the stories of anti-gay lobbyists on the dole. One has to wonder if they keep using these right wing employees because they can't find anyone to say they've gone straight unless James Dobson is writing them fat checks to lie.
19 Comments:
What a buch of repressed queers. Not very attractive. I'm sure they got bitter because no one wouldfuck them.
How funny. You never see any cute ex-gays. What a bunch of sad clowns with empty lives. A good lay is all they need. Actually, most of them are getting laid - just lying about it.
You guys should be nicer. I am an ex-gay. Sure, sometimes I have temptations. Sometimes I fall. But I am fighting the good fight and my temptations are decreasing. It isn't easy. But with the help of the Lord and a good Christian woman, I expect to eventually be cured from this terrible disease.
I think people like Haley and Chambers are just lazy. They don't want to get real jobs. It is easier to go on TV and live a glamerous life getting big bucks from James Dobson. Real work is hard, and these guys just want the easy life. And they are probably getting as much sex as anyone else - on the sly.
posted by Anonymous, at
5/25/2005 6:02 PM
Bruce, I feel very sad for you. First of all, you do not have a disease. If you are gay, you can be a christian as well, check out soulforce, a gay christian group who represent gay christians. I plead with you to be yourself, accept who you are, you area valid human being, do not let others who know nothing about us tell you any different. I hope that eventually you can accept yourself for who you are and live a happy fulfilling life, accept that your orientation is a gift, it makes you unique. Take care, Tim W.
posted by Anonymous, at
5/25/2005 9:34 PM
Hey Wayne I was dial flipping the other night and came across the tv show It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle, there was this guy talking and even before I knew what the topic was I thought to myself, 'who's this Mary'? Then I realized the topic was Are Gays Born or is it a Choice? I almost plotzed when I heard that this tinker-bell was supposed to be an ex-gay who is now married and has 2 kids. (He also said he had had sex with 100 guys before 'becoming straight'--hahaha). OF COURSE he and his wife have a ministry and she looked like Birdie Godsend (Tracey Ullman character) complete with sacchrin and slightly contemptuous smile and the regulation blond third reich hairdo. The gay psychiatrist and psychologist who used science were of course the most convincing and intelligent; but I thought it would have been great if they had Wayne on that show. They did an online poll from the viewers at the end of the show and about 75% said they thought homosexuality was biological (not a choice) and the other quarter were obviously mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers who still think the sun revolves around the earth! Gary in NJ
posted by Anonymous, at
5/25/2005 11:26 PM
Personally, I don't know if I WANT some of these people in the community. As for Bruce, being gay is not a disease, it's something inborn and genetic. You can no more stop being gay than you could stop breathing. Do your "wife" a favor and get a divorce to say her the trauma of when she catches you in one of your "temptations."
Comedienne Sabrina Matthews on ex-gays: "Whenever you see these ex-gay thigns they always bring out a man...and it's always a man because apparently lesbians are incurable...and he says something like (with heavy lisp) 'Jesus cured me of my lussst for other men.' Hey. That's great. Maybe if you pray a little harder he can get ride of some of those annoying affectations, too. How do they even know the treatment is working? Do they give them tests? 'Now would you say that champagne, mousse, and salmon are foods or colors?'" --Johnny Minneapolis
posted by Anonymous, at
5/26/2005 10:26 AM
Word up. These ex-gays are sad, sick freaks. They really need to change they fucked up lifestyles and come out of they closets.
I love someone telling "gays" they should be "nicer." This in a world where the persecution of gay people has become a national sport. Please. If you want to "change" your orientation, do it in on your on time and in your own mind. Feed a few homeless people or give children (and many adults) needed healthcare insurance. Just stop with the bullshit advertising and your fanciful claims to have changed.
posted by sttropezbutler, at
5/27/2005 12:32 PM
Bruce, Being gay is not a disease. Believing that there is something wrong with you because you are biologically different is the disease. I hope you kind the strength and manhood to be who you are.
That Randy Thomas guy - I saw a dude who looked just like him at the bathhouse in Orlando. It might not have been him. Probably, wasn't. But Wayne should keep film in his camera, just in case. I mean the guy was a spitting image. Needless to say, he was highly undesirable naked...and was kind of small...
it is too bad you don't have anything better to do then be jellous of someone who has chosen to move on from your "tired" way of life and find a real life with real love and commentment, which is something you clearly don't know anything about because all you want is sex. the truth is all you really want is real love...like what they have found!
posted by Anonymous, at
7/27/2005 7:06 PM
I am amazed at the many comments heaving explicit sexual content. Is that all gays think about? Also, that old story about all you need is a good fuck to fix you is just bullshit. Either way you look at it that's just adding abuse on top of all the other things that people have to deal with.
posted by Anonymous, at
8/12/2006 1:10 PM
what about those of us that were born straight, and want to be gay?
posted by Anonymous, at
11/06/2007 5:44 PM
