Exodus International
One of my favourite episodes of Will & Grace involves Jack stumbling across the “Welcome Back Home” conversion program.
It’s hilarious for two reasons: One, because Jack cunningly chooses to think of the group as “Welcome Back Homo” and two, as the episode amusingly shows, washing that gay right out of your hair isn’t all that simple. Or successful.
My interest in conversion programs is two-fold. I find them stupidly hilarious as Will & Grace and But I’m a Cheerleader and Saved and Boston Legal and Big Love and plenty of other examples testify.
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“Homosexual tendencies (are) one of many conditions that beset fallen humanity.”
According to Exodus International’s policy statements, those who embrace “homosexual behaviours” have lives that are “sinful” and “destructive”.
Rather than simply condemn non-heterosexual desire, Exodus International (A Christian organisation that condemns homosexuality) adopts what they refer to as a ‘redemptive’ approach – seeking to ‘reorient’ the ‘fallen’.
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Anne Stocks says:
Senthorun Raj says… it is hardly a surprise that suicidal ideation and suicide is an endemic problem amongst same-sex attracted and gender diverse people….why do you think they suicide Senthorun because they feel happy and content or perhaps as you assume they agree with what others are saying about them… Read more »
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David says:
@Adam C I object to your assertion that Ex Gay therapy is no different from Tarot Card Reading or Aromatherapy. The first two harmless curiosities, but Ex Gay therapy is psychological abuse that fucks up peoples’ lives. Read more »
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