In a 1999 asssment, New York Tim journalists Dudley Clenden and Adam Nagourney stated that “ seems likely that the movement for gay inty and gay ...
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THE MAN BEHD THE HISTORIC IMPLOSN OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
Gay guys: what was the tippg pot? Exod, which for 37 years was more or ls synonymo wh the ex-gay movement and at s peak employed 24 people this office, closed down June.
Sce then, a skeleton crew of three people has rattled around the largely empty workspace overseeg the dismantlg of an associatn that once clud more than 150 Christian mistri 17 untri, all voted to the ia that homosexual feelgs need not lead to eternal damnatn. Its missn statement: "Mobilizg the body of Christ to mister grace and tth to a world impacted by homosexualy.
Chambers, 41 — who after livg as a gay man his younger years now has a wife and two children — led Exod for s fal 12 years.
THE GAY TIPPG POT
He's long been a poster boy for the Christian right's belief that was possible to "pray the gay away. " Chambers disput the notn that he ever promoted Exod as the "gay cure" mistry, though there is plenty of evince to the ntrary, not the least of which is the book he wrote 2009 lled Leavg Homosexualy: A Practil Gui for Men and Women Lookg for a Way Out.
He matas that his overarchg goal was always to provi homosexuals wh the fort, fellowship, and love they'd been nied by tradnal church.