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Exodus can't turn people from gay to straight. Yet, it still gets new clients. How does such a failed group do this? Simply by lying to vulnerable and desperate people and distorting gay life. On the Fox Morning Show with Romeo and Juliet, Chambers used a typical Exodus scare tactic to get new members.
CHAMBERS: "What I found was that homosexuality was for the young. There was a time when I wasn't going to have hair anymore. There was a time when I wasn't going to work out every day, and lay out in the sun, and be as much a commodity as I was when I was eighteen."
If one looks back at most of the happy marriage photos from San Francisco and the current marriages in Mass. (not to mention Andrew Sullivan's pictures below), it is obvious that the smiling, happy faces are primarily of middle aged people that look just like the individuals Chambers described.
Furthermore, Chambers would have you believe that straight people, particularly church people, don't care about looks. Perhaps, that is because he does not know of any straight people - including the people he works with at Exodus. But in the real world, straight men and women who are not beautiful don't make it past the velvet rope either. It is not a gay thing - but a fact of humanity. (if you are rich or famous, there is an exception to the rule)
What Chambers did was a sleazy attempt to smear GLBT people and terrify young people into entering his failed ministry. What he is essentially saying is - "you might as well join my bizarre ministry, because you will suffer even more if you come out of the closet."How does this man look at himself in the morning? Has there ever been a more dishonest leader of Exodus?
On a side note, since Chambers has taken over Exodus, he has aged, like 30 years. I guess lying takes its toll. The good news is, even if he looks like shit when he finally comes out, there will be someone who loves him for who he truly is - contrary to the tired propaganda he spews on national television.
19 Comments:
I doubt if he was ever a 'commodity', even at 18. But today he is definately a cum-oddity! Snarkybark
posted by Anonymous, at
9/14/2007 1:12 PM
As if heterosexuality at its shallowest doesn't insist on youth!
As if fashion magazines parading designer clothes for women in their 30s and 40s who have the money to buy them, don't hang them on the firm slim bodies of 17 year olds to fill their pages!
As if the "lads mag" titles in the UK which parade acres of female flesh, don't pick supple pneumatic 18 year olds!
As if aging heterosexual roués whose marriages fail don't target the young and buxom!
As if money isn't the thing that gets an older busnessman a lissom young "trophy wife"!
Truly, the ageism of the heterosexual world is relentless!
posted by Anonymous, at
9/14/2007 1:32 PM
Chambers is such scum. It is easy to see that the only way he can keep his dick out of a guys mouth is to live in a fantasy world.
Chambers is a joke...he talks about maturity? I have never seen such a baby posing as a man in my life.
posted by Anonymous, at
9/14/2007 3:15 PM
It's easy to tell Chambers was one of those superficial queens when he was gay. So whether he's gay or ex-gay, nobody would want much to do with somebody who's strictly all about a person's looks and nothing more.
posted by S., at
9/14/2007 3:32 PM
Yes - I also read somwhere - maybe this site - that he was a thief and addicted to shopping....I guess the guy has not changes as much as would like us to think he has.
I was surprised to find out that Alan is actually younger than me. I thought he was older than me. I have been told repeatedly that I don't look my age. Which is a blessing.
Yes, dealing with the ex-gay ministry on a daily bases must make one look old. Sad.
posted by Anonymous, at
9/14/2007 5:20 PM
I can almost hear it now, as Alan and his group of nelly friends sit at the bar back in the '80's rating the crowd--"he's hot, he's not!" Perhaps Alan finally came to the horrific realization he fell into the latter category and didn't measure up, scaring him all the way to Exodus.
posted by Anonymous, at
9/14/2007 6:18 PM
When I moved to NYC over 20 years ago, I met a few people who had Chambers' mindset. All they cared about was looks, drinking, dancing, partying and "having a good time". They were so shallow that the word "depth" was probably absent from their vocabulary.
Then, when they matured and got older, they started to look quite pathetic in contrast to the gays who had spent much of their time getting educated, working hard, making money and developing true relationships with other people based upon respect and open communication.
To them, it was never their bad choices that produced their current existence of nothingness, it was always something else or even "gay life" itself that was to blame. There was never any personal responsibility there or even a remote acknowledgment of the bad choices that they had made.
posted by Anonymous, at
9/15/2007 10:54 AM
Chambers should know that even unfuckable people like himself can find gay partners. He should stop lying about gay people. He is such a jerk and a pathological liar. Has he ever told the truth?
It's easy to tell Chambers was one of those superficial queens when he was gay. So whether he's gay or ex-gay, nobody would want much to do with somebody who's strictly all about a person's looks and nothing more.
"...All I wanted boiled down to one thing--commitment. No man had ever committed himself to me, good or bad. I needed a secure love that was tangible, accessible and committed. ...Yet, still pursuing my search for a man, one day my searching paid off. I found a place where anonymous sexual encounters happened. The sex didn't involve relationship, but still it was something. I was desirable to someone, at least for ten minutes." ALAN'S Testimony
Alan NEVER got commitments from men because he looked in Adult Bookstores for a boyfriend. Where else can one find sex in ten minutes?
posted by Unknown, at
9/19/2007 11:20 PM
Chambers is claiming "the gay activist movement is wealthy. None of us in the pro-family movement are making money. I am in poverty compared to what the executives of the pro-gay movement are making." Alan Chambers made that statement at the Family Impact Summit
Demand ALAN give us an honest answer- do his two adopted children deserve to live in "poverty" or is he just generalizing to make himself seem more vulnerable, pathetic and beat down by MILITANT GAYS? Go to his blog and demand an explanation! BLOG
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