Why Exodus Was Especially Upset by Advice Show's Rejection
Chambers says that Dawson McAllister Association CEO Tim Altman told him that only 1 percent of the callers over the past 15 months had wanted advice about homosexuality. "Should we forsake the 99 percent for the 1 percent?" Chambers says Altman asked.
"Had he remembered the parable of the lost sheep," Chambers remarked on his blog, "in which a good shepherd left the 99 for the 1, he might have answered his own question."
Dawson McAllister's website still refers visitors to Campus Crusade for Christ's Truth Media, True Love Waits, Focus on the Family, and other ministries that counsel youth with same-sex attraction.
Premiere Radio Networks, the Clear Channel subsidiary that syndicates Dawson McAllister Live, syndicates several programs that discuss homosexuality more often than McAllister's, including The Glenn Beck Program and The Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Earlier Christianity Today coverage of Exodus and other ex-gay ministries includes:
No Straight Shot | More evangelical therapists move from changing orientation to embracing faith identity for gays. (Sept. 14, 2009)
An Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement | The 30-year-old ministry now offers realistic hope for homosexuals. (Sept. 13, 2007)
Ex-Gay Sheds the Mocking Quote Marks | The retiring head of Exodus says gay transformation ministries are more respected and effective than ever. (Jan. 7, 2002)
The 'Handicap Icon' Gets New Life
Sidelining the Stigma of Mental Illness
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Dan H.
"Greg Peterson: The Bible doesn't condemn "homosexuality,"..." (Continued) I Tim. 1:9, 10 "...realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 10and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching..." Jude 6,7 "...He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire." The prohibition against homosexual behavior was never repudiated by the OT prophets, Jesus, the Jewish religious leaders, the Apostles, the Church Fathers, the Reformers, etc. The biblical/historical data is against you.
Dan H.
"Greg Peterson: The Bible doesn't condemn "homosexuality,"..." Of course, you don't provide any evidence for this assertions. But the bible is very specific as to the condemnation of homosexual behavior. Lev. 18:22'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." Romans 1:27 "...and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." I Cor. 6:9 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,..." (Continued on next post)
Doc Anthony
You're very wrong about that statement Greg -- but the truth is that your side is clearly winning, as the current news story demonstrates.