Exodus International, lead "cure the gays" group, shuts down, apologizes to gays

[muriel_volestrangler]

This is rather huge in my world. Exodus International, the lead religious right organization claiming that gays can be “cured” of their homosexuality, just closed up shop and issued an apology to the LGBT community.

I’m actually quite astounded.

The religious right hung its hate(e) on Exodus International a long time ago. For years, their lead anti-gay political groups used the false notion that gays can be “cured” to stymie efforts to win full civil rights for gay people.

And now Exodus International is gone, and issuing a public apology in the name of its past leader, Alan Chambers:
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http://americablog.com/2013/06/exodus-international-lead-cure-the-gays-group-shuts-down-apologizes-to-gays.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. But their website is still quite active.

http://exodusinternational.org/

[xchrom]

2. interesting. nt

[FreeState]

6. Hmm... not loading for me

either excessive traffic or its turned off now. My guess is excessive traffic. While Exodus is rebranding themselves (they are not "shutting down" thats a nice distraction for them to say see- were not so bad, but we still are here for unhappy gays) the site will be up for all their affiliates to get their information etc. I imagine the site will be redirected to the new name once that site is done (its a bad landing page right now).

[Bluenorthwest]

3. They are regrouping under a new name, having burned out their income stream they need a new

one. Chambers is a con man, that is all he is.

[closeupready]

4. Apologies are not enough. Give the money you earned to anti-hate organizations.

Or to some other charitable NGO, like clean water projects or literacy projects. Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, these people are in the same territory as Ken Mehlman.

[HillWilliam]

5. I'll be more than happy

to piss in their grave.

[joeybee12]

7. Just saw that...bizarre...knr

[LeftofObama]

8. F*ck them!

And they can shove their apology right up their asses!

[Initech]

9. Agree, no apology is good enough, the damage has been done.

[Iggo]

12. Yup.

Apologies are for children.

Grown-ups make amends.

[RKP5637]

10. They will probably morph into something new. People with this much

hatred and evilness just do not go away IMO. It's a social club of hatred for them, they will find a new way, probably, to rebrand themselves with a new leader of the herd. That said, I'm glad for this recent development.

[Old Union Guy]

11. No change of opinion about what is a sin of course? Or admission of outright quackery?

Just a change of tactics.

[uriel1972]

13. When I saw the title, my immeadiate thought was "The Onion"... nt