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Lisa Ling was duped by Exodus President Alan Chambers and failed to ask him key follow-up questions.
This was particularly glaring when it came to Chambers spinning what really went on sexually between he and his wife when they first married.
On Ling’s “Pray the Gay Away” segment on the Oprah Winfrey Network, Chambers portrays his marriage as true bliss. He tells the “reporter”, “It (sex with a woman) felt natural, absolutely, and has every day for our entire marriage.”
What? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Chambers admitted at a 2007 Love Won Out conference in Phoenix, “I realize that I do live a life of denial. Not denial of who I used to be, not denial of who I could be today, but I deny what comes naturally to me.”
Why didn’t Ling ask Chambers, “If your experience with your wife was so natural, then why are you saying that you deny what comes naturally to you?”
It also took Chambers nine months to consummate his marriage, hardly a ringing endorsement of his heterosexuality. Yet, Ling never pointed this out to her audience.
Basically, Alan Chambers lied through his teeth, spun the truth, inverted reality — and Lisa Ling and OWN enabled this charade. If the reporter would have done her homework, she would have known about Chambers’ honeymoon horror.
Shame on Ling for not doing her job and telling the real story. Shame on the Oprah Winfrey Network for allowing this shallow puff piece to air.
Sweet Jesus! Im not even a reporter and I knew about the 9 month consummation story.
Chamber’s wife must have s**t for brains!
May I just tell you how very much I appreciate you and your work, Wayne! Thank you!
Well, even Exodus is no longer promising “change”. They just pimp that “living according to god’s plan” crap. That means sublimating who you really are and living a simulated heterosexual lifestyle to please anti-gay bigots. No actual penis-vagina contact is needed for that, merely a beard and some adopted children.
I’ve come to the conclusion that misrepresentation, misleading statements and downright bare-faced lies are the order of the day for “ex-gay” minstries.
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Chambers’ honeymoon non-consummation story was shared with us dupes back at the 2004 Exodus conference, when I was in my sad, closeted phase. It woke me up to the reality of this sham. And Mrs. Chambers was a difficult, shrewish woman barking orders at her assistants. Religion has warped these people something good and they live contorted, lie-filled lives as a result.
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