US Christian group renounces homosexuailty ‘cure’ campaign

He said “99.9 per cent” of people he had encountered in two decades
with Exodus were not able to completely rid themselves of same-sex
attraction.

His comments have caused a rift in the organisation’s own ranks with 11 of its
ministries defecting. One opponent accused Mr Chambers of dropping his
campaign because he was “tired of his own personal struggles.”

And Robert Gagnon, an associate professor at the Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary, called for Mr Chambers to resign. He told the New York Times: “My
greatest concern has to do with Alan’s repeated assurances to homosexually
active ‘gay Christians’ that they will be with him in heaven.”

Wayne Besen, a Vermont-based activist who has worked to discredit ex-gay
therapy, said: “We appreciate any step toward open, transparent honesty
that will do less harm to people.

“But the underlying belief is still that homosexuals are sexually broken,
that something underlying is broken and needs to be fixed. That’s incredibly
harmful, it scars people.”

The California state senate passed a bill to ban reparative therapy for minors
last month and other states may follow.

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