June 17th, 2007
The Orange County (CA) Reporter Register has an article out about the two ex-gay-related conferences taking place the last week of June in Irvine, California. One conference is a five-day long Exodus Freedom Conference to be held at Concordia University. That conference will go from June 26 to July 1.
The other conference is the Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference, which will be held just down the road a bit at the University of California at Irvine from June 29 to July 1. That conference is being organized by Soulforce and Beyond Ex-Gay. Yours truly will be hosting a workshop at that conference.
I thought the OC Register article was interesting. Usually, when Exodus puts on conferences like these, the reporting goes something like this: Exodus is in town saying gays can change, and there will be lots of angry gay protesters outside holding up signs and yelling things and singing songs and generally being angry about it.
But not this time. This report is much more focused on the experiences of those who have undergone ex-gay experiences themselves. I think this article does a great job in laying out both sides of the issue.
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Kevin
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Now all we need is to start some Ex-Right-Wing-Evangelical survivor conferences and hold them down the road from the faux cults/political action committees places of golden peepee worship.
TomTallis
June 18th, 2007
You might want to correct your article. It’s the Orange County Register. Thanks for posting this.
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