Queerty warns readers of 76-year-old Lambert Dolphin, an ex-gay activist who trolls young-adult dating sites in search of young men.
The overt purpose is proselytization, not sex, but his obsession with the men-under-24 age group is cause for alarm. Young men who have been contacted by Dolphin say they’re “terrified.” Dolphin’s website parrots standard reparative-therapy rubbish about young gay men needing father figures rather than healthy and honest relationships with people their own age. Such rationales are the product, sometimes, not of reputable therapeutic insight, but of emotionally unwell ex-gays who project their own disturbance onto others, who require reputable and professional therapy — and who should not be encouraged to inflict their unhealthy issues upon innocent strangers with an air of phony authority.
Dolphin has not responded to Queerty’s requests for comment.
It’s unfortunate that some Exodus International leaders continue to idolize such father-figure hogwash; that the organization makes no effort whatsoever to police the ex-gay “counseling” industry by offering public standards of conduct; that Exodus’ Love In Action program had a history of mingling sexually-disturbed middle-aged adults with teen-age men; and that Exodus continues to oppose an ex-gay patient’s bill of rights.
It seems he should go and preach to people his own age. May we suggest SAGE
http://www.sageusa.org/index.cfm
Preaching to young guys…we know what this is about….What a creep.
While his intentions might have been sincere, it’s unfortunate that Dolphin (like so many ex-gay activists) fails to view himself or his actions objectively.
Oh dear…. You should also see his volumes of writings on junk science, pretending we did not evolve and that the Grand Canyon is the result of ‘Noah’s Flood’. Clearly he is incapable of any objectivity. By the way, his 4th century understanding of science is blown out of the water at, among others, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html#creacrit%20 . A geriatric ignoramus, an imbecile, a kook as well as a creep, who has wasted his empty life writing instantly forgettable fantasy, and who should be treated with ridicule and contempt.
Many years ago in Minnesota right after coming out, I attended many gay potlucks in private homes. A local Seventh-Day Adventist minister, married, administrator of a nursing home, was into homosexuals anonymous. He “crashed” every party (never invited), always announced he had just taken his wife out to dinner (to “prove” he was straight), then proceeded to put the make on every young guy at the party. Yet he claimed he was “curing” young homosexual guys that came to his house for “therapy!” What a lech. Everyone despised him.
Jerry Johnson