This is so bizarre, I don’t even know what to say:

A while ago I wrote my testimony about how Covenant Eyes has greatly benefited my online accountability and facilitates a safe place online. I have tried various accountability software services out there and this is by far the best.

I have been using their service for almost three years. Maybe longer. We at Exodus have even partnered with Covenant Eyes. All of our staff at Exodus uses the service. Many of my friends outside of Exodus use it. I even use it on my personal computer at home. That said, I am running their banners (at the top of the blog mixed in with ours) because I honestly believe that it never hurts to be more transparent with trusted brothers and sisters in Christ about our online activity.

Weird! Weird weird weird weird weird weird!

This is fundamentalist Christian infantilization at its basest. Randall, you are an adult! You, theoretically, “minister” to adults. What kind of grotesque “healing” could you possibly be offering if you’re admitting that the entire staff of your corporation has to install an Internet Mommy to keep them from accidentally catching a glimpse of a male nipple?* And for that matter, what products do you have on your steering wheel to keep you from accidentally pulling into a Crate and Barrel? What kind of steel chastity belts do you wear at the gym? Or do you go the cilice route? Seriously, inquiring minds would love to know, just like we’d love to know these things about Mario Bergner, the “ex-gay” Anglican priest Wayne wrote about the other day.

One more question: How weak of a Jesus are you preaching that he’s so powerless to help you “conquer” your biological urges in the face of an empty Google search field?

Nah, don’t answer these questions. I’ll do it for you:

Sexuality is not a dependency like alcoholism. It is not something that you have to be exposed to, even if it runs in your family, in order for it to manifest. You and I both know, Randy, that our physical attractions to men showed up long before we ever acted on them. Why? Because they are innate. They are natural. They are biological.

Randy, you and Alan Chambers and Richard Cohen, and all the rest of the Diaspora of Denial, are marketing a scam, a transmogrification of healing, wherein to find freedom, one must consign him- or herself to a life of a self-inflicted bondage in order to appease a god too weak to intervene.

How shameful, and what a stain on your faith.

*OOH, look at me, I’m the temptress! See if your Covenant Eyes protect you from Ryan Reynolds’ sexy chest!

For whatever reason, northern Ireland is being targeted by the “ex-gay” industry.

I guess it was not enough that they had created havoc and potential bloodshed in Uganda. Exodus International continues to obliviously globe-trot, leaving a trail of ruined lives and destruction in its wake.

Ex-gay activist Rev. Mario Bergner takes his phony road show to Belfast, Feb. 19-21. While there, Bergner, the author of “Setting Love in Order: Hope and Healing for the Homosexual,” will have a seminar named after the book. He is quite the salesman, hawking even more ex-gay gear than International Healing Foundation quack Richard Cohen. According to Exodus’ website:

Rev. Mario Bergner will visit Northern Ireland to participate in the Setting Love in Order Conference hosted by Core-issues, a ministry based in Northern Ireland seeking to empower local church congregations in their task of supporting men and women with unwanted same sex attraction. The conference is being widely promoted as part of the organization’s efforts to provide practical training for church leaders in the area of unwanted same sex attraction.

Want to bet Bergner doesn’t discuss the episode where I photographed Exodus’ former poster boy John Paulk in a gay bar? Or that two of the key founders of this fraudulent group left their wives to marry each other?

If Bergner’s propaganda does not get through, residents of Belfast will have a second chance to get the malignant message. Exodus President Alan Chambers will be in town, April 22-23, to host the “Leaving Homosexuality Celebration.” Interestingly, Chambers goes on TV in America and says Exodus does not “change” people. Yet, across the pond, he is holding a big party to celebrate his magical “pray away the gay” cure. According to the website:

Core is a ministry supporting local churches in their efforts to provide appropriate pastoral support for those with unwanted same sex attraction. The service recognizes God’s grace for many individuals making the journey out of homosexuality.

Maybe I’m just a “reality-based” kind of guy, but it sure seems, based on the promotional language, that Exodus is selling the concept of “change”.

Unfortunately, LGBT people in Ireland will find Chambers’ dishonest presentation neither lucky, nor charming. One can only imagine the mischief Exodus will cook up in Ireland, given its abysmal and violent track record overseas. Chambers and Bergner should do the world a favor and stay home before they have even more blood on their hands.

If you live in Ireland and are interested in Truth Wins Out coming over to counter Chambers’ lies with a multi-media presentation, please contact us.