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Exodus International

Index Exodus International

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. [1]

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Alan Chambers (activist)

Alan Manning Chambers (born February 21, 1972) is the former president of Exodus International and co-founder of Speak. Love., headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

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Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF, formerly Alliance Defense Fund) is an American conservative Christian nonprofit organization with the stated goal of advocating, training, and funding on the issues of "religious freedom, sanctity of life, and marriage and family." ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and runs the Center for Academic Freedom.

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Andrew Comiskey

Andrew Comiskey is an American conservative Christian political activist and is the founder of Desert Stream Ministries, a former ministry of Exodus International.

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Anne Paulk

Anne Paulk is the executive director of Restored Hope Network, an interdenominational Christian ex-gay ministry headed up primarily of former members of Exodus International.

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Arlington Group

The Arlington Group is a coalition which unites the leaders of prominent Christian conservative organizations in the United States.

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Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A (a play on the American English pronunciation of "fillet") is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in the city of College Park, Georgia, specializing in chicken sandwiches.

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Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy

The Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy was a controversial topic focused around the American fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A following a series of public comments made in June 2012 by chief operating officer Dan T. Cathy opposing same-sex marriage.

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Christianity and homosexuality

Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on the issues of sexual orientation and homosexuality.

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Christopher Senyonjo

Christopher Senyonjo (also Ssenyonjo; born December 8, 1931) is a clergyman and campaigner for LGBT rights in Uganda.

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Conversion therapy

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual using psychological or spiritual interventions.

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Courage UK

Courage UK is a Christian ministry for the gay and lesbian community, based in Guildford, Surrey, England.

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Darryl Foster

Darryl L. Foster is an American activist, author and Christian minister.

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Day of Dialogue

In the United States of America, the Day of Dialogue is an annual student-focused event that challenges homosexuality.

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Day of Silence

In the United States, the Day of Silence is the GLSEN's annual day of action to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students.

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Don't Filter Me

Don't Filter Me is a project of the American Civil Liberties Union dedicated to fighting LGBT-related internet censorship that happens in public schools in the United States.

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Ego-dystonic sexual orientation

Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is an ego-dystonic mental disorder characterized by having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image, causing anxiety and a desire to change one's orientation or become more comfortable with one's sexual orientation.

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Equality Ride

The Equality Ride is a periodic LGBT rights bus tour made for young adults and sponsored by Soulforce, a national LGBT nonprofit organization.

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Ex-ex-gay

Ex-ex-gay people are those who formerly participated in the ex-gay movement in an attempt to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual, but who then later went on to publicly state they had a non-heterosexual sexual orientation.

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Ex-gay movement

The ex-gay movement consists of individuals and organizations that encourage people to refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, eliminate homosexual desires and to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual relationship.

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Exodus

Exodus or The Exodus may refer to.

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Exodus Global Alliance

Exodus Global Alliance is a Christian organization that seeks to advocate "ex-gay" movements by promoting the idea that gay people can change their homosexuality, or in their own words, help bring "healing" and "freedom" to people "struggling with homosexual behaviour".

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Exodus Ministries

Exodus Ministries is a Dallas, Texas-based non-denominational Christian former prisoner rehabilitation organization, which attempts to help those who are released from prison back into society at large.

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Ferguson v. JONAH

Ferguson v. JONAH, New Jersey Superior Court No.

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Fiona Simpson

Fiona Stuart Simpson (born 18 April 1965 in Sea Lake, Victoria) is an Australian politician serving as Liberal National Party (LNP) member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing Maroochydore.

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Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is an American Christian conservative organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by psychologist James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Great Commission church movement

Great Commission Churches (GCC) is a fellowship of independent evangelical Christian churches.

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Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination

On October 3, 2005, Harriet Miers was nominated for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President George W. Bush to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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Holland Davis

Holland Davis is a Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel in San Clemente, CA and a Calvary Chapel Christian worship leader, songwriter, Bible teacher, and author based in San Juan Capistrano.

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Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life?

Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? is a 1956 book by the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, in which the author argues that homosexuality is a curable illness.

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Homosexuals Anonymous

Homosexuals Anonymous (HA) is an ex-gay group which practices conversion therapy and describes itself as "a fellowship of men and women, who through their common emotional experience, have chosen to help each other live in freedom from homosexuality." HA regards homosexual orientation as "sexual brokeness" that may be "healed" through faith in Jesus Christ.

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Joe Dallas

Joe Dallas (born 1954) is a prominent figure in the ex-gay movement and an advocate of reparative therapy from a Christian perspective.

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Joel 2:25 International

Joel 2:25 International is a non-profit ministry organization providing a network of support groups for individuals in the ex-gay movement.

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John Paulk

John Paulk (born April 13, 1963) is a gay former advocate and promoter of the ex-gay movement and conversion therapy and author.

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Justin Lee (activist)

Justin Lee is an American author, speaker, and LGBT Christian activist known for his focus on building bridges between groups who disagree.

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Ken Hutcherson

Kenneth Lee Hutcherson (July 14, 1952 – December 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985.

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LGBT rights in the United Kingdom

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have evolved dramatically over time.

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List of Assemblies of God people

The following are notable people associated (past or present) with the Assemblies of God.

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Love Won Out

Love Won Out, later known as True Story, was an ex-gay ministry launched by Focus on the Family in 1998.

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Our America with Lisa Ling

Our America with Lisa Ling is an American documentary television series that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network for five seasons from February 15, 2011 until July 31, 2014.

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Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality

Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality (PATH) is a coalition of groups that work to help "people with unwanted same-sex attractions (SSA) realize their personal goals for change—whether by developing their innate heterosexual potential or by embracing a lifestyle as a single, non-sexually active man or woman."http://www.pathinfo.org/index.html The predominantly ex-gay member groups promote the "right to decide whether to seek counseling or therapy" and abstinence.

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Pray the Gay Away?

"Pray the Gay Away?" is a 2011 episode of the American television series Our America with Lisa Ling.

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Real Time with Bill Maher (season 11)

This is a list of episodes from the eleventh season of Real Time with Bill Maher.

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Restored Hope Network

Restored Hope Network is an ex-gay network of interdenominational Christian ministries and individuals.

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Sexual orientation change efforts

Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) are methods used in attempts to change the sexual orientation of homosexual and bisexual people to heterosexuality.

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Sy Rogers

Sy Rogers is an American Christian pastor and formerly part of the ex-gay movement.

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Talbert W. Swan II

Talbert Wesley Swan II (born April 24, 1965) is an American prelate of the Church Of God In Christ serving as the Bishop of the Nova Scotia Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, in Canada.

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Teodoro Maniaci

Teodoro Maniaci is an American cinematographer and documentary director, with dozens of motion pictures and television shows to his credit.

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True Freedom Trust

True Freedom Trust (TFT) is an organization, based in Wirral, UK, supporting Christians who take a "traditional" view of Biblical teaching on same-sex relationships.

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Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014

The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014 (previously called the "Kill the Gays bill" in the western mainstream media due to death penalty clauses proposed in the original version) was passed by the Parliament of Uganda, on 20 December 2013 with life in prison substituted for the death penalty.

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Violence against LGBT people

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can face violence motivated by hateful attitudes towards their sexuality or gender identity.

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Wayne Besen

Wayne Besen (born July 5, 1970) is an American gay rights advocate.

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WinShape Foundation

WinShape Foundation is an American charitable organization founded in 1984 by Truett Cathy, founder of fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A, and his wife Jeanette Cathy.

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2013 in LGBT rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_International

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