Comments on: Ex-ex-gay ministry

By: S.McC

S.McC — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:05:23 +0000

I heard Chambers interviewed on BBC today. The interviewer did not pull any punches, and made some effort to box Chambers into enough of a corner that Chambers could have gotten defensive, and Chambers just didn’t. When asked how he felt that one person the interviewer knew, had turned to drugs as a response to the Exodus Int’l message, Chambers ducked nothing. He said he felt absolutely horrible about it. It does not do anything for the guy addicted to drugs, but either Chambers was totally sincere, or he’s one of the best liars I’ve ever heard.

By: Susan/ohbejoyful

Susan/ohbejoyful — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:41:58 +0000

Thanks for writing this up. I too am looking forward to the deeper story, but you’re right – the apology isn’t about him or his journey. There’ll be another time for that.

By: tanita

tanita — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:34:17 +0000

Oh! This is making me cry.
I remember one of the umbrella organizations from this one coming to our college and ending up in a debate. I have all the scriptures they used, written in the cover of my Bible, and was still so confused at how they could “prove” the unprovable and talk about changing orientations. As a college fresher, I knew NADA about anything, and the memories of this bewilderment are so clear. It might seem hard, to the outside observer, to see how anyone could “sleep” through this, and what the hell they’ve been thinking, and how on earth they could deny themselves so fully, but they truly, truly, truly felt like the only way to be loved was to be someone else, and with what they believed was a “thus sayeth the Lord” behind that, that’s an awful lot of impetus.

What a mess, when people play God.