Comments on: Uganda Situation Continues To Deteriorate; Exodus Washes Their Hands

By: Strange, True & Religious : Conference in Uganda by 3 American professional anti-gays sets off strange feeding frenzy with pastors accusing rivals of gayness, miracle faking and human sacrifices

Thu, 14 May 2009 22:48:07 +0000

[...] Mar 30: Uganda Situation Continues To Deteriorate; Exodus Washes Their Hands [...]

By: Emproph

Emproph — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:43:28 +0000

“Exodus Washes Their Hands”

That kind of blood doesn’t wash off.

By: John

John — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:35:44 +0000

At this point, it doesn’t really matter what Alan Chambers says (particularly since most of what comes out of his mouth isn’t true to begin with). They linked their name and what little was left of their reputation to this hateful conference in Uganda. The conference was designed to stir up passions and violence in Uganda. Everyone recongnized that long before the conference started. Yet instead of denouncing the conference, Exodus lent it’s name as a sponsor of the conference, sent a Board Member to be one of the keynote speakers, and Alan Chambers has praised the performance of that Board Member’s performance after the conference.

People will be hurt, and some may end up dead. Alan Chambers can say that he didn’t see any of this coming, but it would be another in a long string of lies. Actions have consequences, and now Exodus can put itself in the same category as Scott Lively: a person or organization that encourages others to commit heinous crimes of violence against their fellow man. Their involvement in this conference and it’s aftermath has finally turned Exodus into an official hate-group.

By: David

David — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:47:18 +0000

Emily K,
Neat synchronicity23; glad to hear someone else interprets this situation the same way.

By: Emily K

Emily K — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:18:28 +0000

David, I used that EXACT metaphor in this blog post about Proposition 8. Amazing.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:02:39 +0000

Now that i tihnk about it, Lady M and Joe seem the wrong references.

How about Pontius Pilate?

Strike while the irony is hot.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:48:32 +0000

“Exodus Washes Their Hands”…

from Lady Macbeth…”All the perfumes of Araby will not sweeten this little hand.” I can just imagine Chambers or Thomas in drag as Lady Macbeth.

Or, quoting joseph Welch on Joe McCarthy: “”Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”

By: L. Junius Brutus

L. Junius Brutus — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:48:52 +0000

Hillary needs to call the Ugandan president and tell him to stop this bullcrap, or else.

By: AJD

AJD — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:18:53 +0000

I hate to sound like a broken record, but please contact your Congressional representatives about this. The word needs to get out about what’s happening; this can’t just keep bouncing around the gay blogosphere.

By: David

David — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:43:08 +0000

I think some words of wisdom from South Park is in order (in this metaphor cancer is the anti-gay):

“Cancer is pure evil. It is a fat little lump that needs to be destroyed. When there is a cancer, you have to fight it.
You can’t reason with cancer. You can’t wish it away.
Cancer doesn’t play by the rules so neither can you. And you can’t listen to what anybody else tells you. You have to be willing to give up everything, because the cancer will take everything… When you have cancer you fight, because it doesn’t matter if you beat it or not, you refuse to let that fat little lump make you feel powerless.”