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Alan Chambers (activist) Alan Manning Chambers (born February 21, 1972) [1] is the former president of Exodus International [2] and co-founder of Speak. Love., headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Before coming to Exodus, Chambers served on the pastoral team at Calvary Assembly of God, one of the largest churches in Orlando.
exodusinternational.org (defunct) Exodus International was a non-profit, interdenominational ex-gay Christian umbrella organization connecting organizations that sought to "help people who wished to limit their homosexual desires". Founded in 1976, Exodus International originally asserted that conversion therapy, the reorientation of same-sex ...
Alan Chambers may refer to: Alan Chambers (explorer) (born 1968), British polar adventurer. Alan Chambers (activist) (born 1972), former President of Exodus International. Alan Chambers (Canadian politician) (1904–1981), Canadian politician. Alan Chambers (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1947), Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly ...
Speaking for those who believe that Christianity and homosexuality are incompatible was Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, an ex-gay organization. Also interviewed were Janet Boynes, a woman who states she "walked away" from lesbianism eleven years earlier and who now runs her own ex-gay ministry, a man named Christian whom Janet ...
Alan Chambers, the CEO of Exodus International and parent company of the Love Won Out Conference, which had held recent conferences under the name True Story, formally apologized to the gay community in June 2013 for the damage done by reparative therapy, and ended the 37-year-old Exodus International ministry. Please know that I am deeply sorry.
Various ex-gay organizations have working definitions of change. Prior to disbanding and renouncing the idea of a cure, [6] Exodus International described change as, "attaining abstinence from homosexual behaviors, lessening of homosexual temptations, strengthening their sense of masculine or feminine identity, correcting distorted styles of relating with members of the same and opposite ...
In 2007, Exodus International began supporting the Day of Truth, an event created by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in 2005 that challenges homosexuality. [38] In 2009, the ADF announced they had passed on their leadership role for the event to Exodus. In October 2010, Exodus announced they would no longer support the event.
Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus, says the term incorrectly implies a complete change in sexual orientation, [176] though the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays continues to use the term. In addition, individual Christians identifying as gay who want to subscribe to the conservative ethic are becoming more vocal themselves.