According to The Los Angeles Times, Alan Chambers was quoted as saying that the term ex-gay as being too neat. "By no means would we ever say change can be sudden or complete," said the man who now identifies as straight and is a husband and father of two after having conquered his attraction to men.
Alan Chambers, the head of Exodus International, appeared in an ex-gay ad with his wife which read: ''I Questioned Homosexuality. By finding my way out of a gay identity, I found the love of my life in the process. Gay marriage would only have blinded me to such an incredible joy.''
Rev R Albert Mohler Jr, regarded as a leading conservative theologian outside the ex-gay movement, shocked many of his constituents by saying in a statement: "We should not be surprised (to find a genetic basis for sexual orientation)."
The LA Times report also quoted Michael Bussee, who founded Exodus International in 1976 but now regularly speaks out against ex-gay therapies.
"Something's happening. And I think it's very positive," said Bussee, who fell in love with a fellow ex-gay counselor after founding Exodus. Now a licensed family therapist, he is 'willing to acknowledge potential in therapy that does not promise change but instead offers patients help in managing their desires and modifying their behaviour to match their religious values - even if that means a life of celibacy,' reads the article.
He is scheduled to address the Ex-Gay Survivor's Conference at the University of California Irvine at the end of the month.
Dr Robert Spitzer, whose 2001 study has been commonly misused by reparative therapy advocates to support their cause, said: "What appeals to me is that it moves away from the total polarization (common in the field)."
"For many years, mental health professionals have taken the view that since homosexuality is not a mental disorder, any attempt to change sexual orientation is unwise," said Spitzer, of Columbia University.
Some therapies are considered dangerous, and some rely on discredited psychological theories. "But for health care professionals to tell someone they don't have the right to make an effort to bring their actions into harmony with their values is hubris," Spitzer said. He is also noted for advocating the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) list of medical disorders in 1973.
In May, the APA announced that it had appointed a Task Force of researchers and clinicians to review the current scientific research on therapeutic response to sexual orientation with an eye toward updating the Association's 1997 policy statement on the topic.
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Either way, if its your free choice to be who you are, realize your full human potential as whoever you are, more power to you.
Just know that no one is perfectly straight or perfectly gay...even if a person is 99.99% straight means he's 0.01% gay.
... I can understand if it was a tsunami, war or genocide survivor's conference, but an ex-gay survivor's conference!?!?!?
Where do these people get their ideas from???????????
A human is not stereotypically formed, unless my Science lecturer taught me wrongly. However, I'd still love to hear further testimonials from this therapy.
As long as we don't harm another human being (unless u're talking about kinks...hehehe...), or 殺人放火, I guess that's my moral values.
I'll just watch fr the sidelines n see what nice drama they can come up with...for my personal entertainment. *wicked grin**
We are who we are and to think of it, no one influences anyone to being true to their sexuality! For those who wants to revert the natural process are only in denial and confused of their own identity. Sadly religion is brought in yet again to underline matters which are logical to solve.
To the people who don't drink from the fairy cup anymore good on you, but i know each night you wish you could turn back the time!!!!!
Open your eyes! Why do you choose to believe lies than truth. What is wrong being our true-self? What is wrong being gay?
I guess the homophobia comes from the sub-concious mind of the heterosexual. Religion is only being used as an execuse. Is homophobia also in the gene as well??? I'm just so curious...
'Reformed' ones will discreetly do 'things' behind their regular session therapies or religious group meets. That is already cheating your ownself and downright contradictory. Because deep inside, that person is gay but applying great deal of mental pressure to keep it down.
we need to learn to be accepting, aren't we?
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