Jones June 24, Melissa Steffan June 21, Wife Anne Paulk cites key differences in their walk and asks for prayer for him. Melissa Steffan May 2, While media outlets made much of Exodus shift on reparative therapy for gay Christians, theologians parsed president's understanding of salvation. Weston Gentry July 12, Current Issue.
Read This Issue. Worthen, who has been deemed the "Father of the Ex-Gay Movement," spent a good chunk of the 80s traveling the world and starting more ex-gay ministries.
Eventually, Worthen and his wife turned the reins of Love in Action over to John Smid, an "ex-gay" who served as Executive Director from to That larger umbrella of Exodus International continued to grow influence through the 90s and into the s.
The group had appearances on daytime TV and nightly news programs, spurring a continued national conversation about how, and if, conversion therapy could be legitimate. Continuing with the conferences that had been a hallmark of Exodus International since the beginning, ministries affirmed that with therapy, LGBTQ people could change. According to testimonies from the Netflix doc, during conferences, men and women were pushed to focus on their masculinity and femininity, respectively. Men were pushed to play football; women were given makeup.
The idea is that the stereotypical activities would give them opportunities to bond with one another and focus on the goal of "reversing" their impulses. But the qualifications and educations of those leading the group were, unsurprisingly, legitimate. As the organization moved into the 90s, Exodus International helped to form a larger umbrella organization through a series of summits.
In , that group was officially called the Exodus Global Alliance, which would help unite the initial efforts started in the United States with the international iterations that had formed since. All the while, Exodus International's outward facing cracks began to become more evident.
Initially, he denied his identity, then said he mistakenly visited the the bar. The reveal was a huge blow to the movement, as John and his wife Anne had become a modern face for the ministry. Eventually, Paulk left the ex-gay ministry in Anne maintains that she is an ex-lesbian and is executive director of the Restored Hope Network, one of the handful of eventual offshoots from Exodus International. By this point, the ex-gay movement was already in shambles.
As Satcher reported, modern science had delivered crushing blows to the ex-gay movement with peer-reviewed research showing that its ideology was bunk. And a national movement to ban reparative therapy for minors was taking shape and had already been successful in several states.
Today, even top Southern Baptist leaders have denounced ex-gay therapy, and the school newspaper for the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University has editorialized against it. That position is more of a minority than it has ever been. And now he even admits that he believes committed, monogamous same-sex relationships can be holy. The former ex-gay leader chooses to focus on just being honest, instead. In it, the organization said "mental health professionals should avoid telling clients that they can change their sexual orientation through therapy or other treatments.
But the same resolution also encouraged therapists to consider the religious beliefs of clients who say such beliefs are important to their views of homosexuality. But yet with the apology, some things have not changed, according to Chambers. But I do not have any desire to fight you on your beliefs or the rights that you seek. Conversion therapist: Lawsuit won't stop us.
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