Savage Love Episode 672
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.3 | well, there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Lovecast? |
| 0:24.6 | So, hey, did you guys hear about the leader of the ex-gay conversion therapy movement who came out as gay last week and apologized to other gay people for the lies and the harm me done? |
| 0:35.6 | What's that? |
| 0:36.2 | No, no, not Michael Boosy and Gary Cooper. Those |
| 0:39.9 | homos co-founded Exodus International in 1976 for decades, Exodus was the world's largest |
| 0:45.4 | ex-gay ministry. But just three years after co-founding it, Boosie and Cooper came out as gay |
| 0:50.5 | and got married. Well, they got commitment ceremonied, which was the best they could do at |
| 0:54.7 | the time, and apologized to other gay people for the harm they'd done and the lies that they'd told. |
| 0:59.6 | Was that? No, no, I'm not talking about Alan Chambers either. He was the last guy to head of Exodus |
| 1:04.7 | International, became the president of the organization in 2001, and then shut the thing down |
| 1:09.5 | in 2013, at which point he apologized to the gay people |
| 1:12.9 | who had been harmed by Exodus and admitted that conversion therapy doesn't work. |
| 1:16.6 | Chambers himself didn't come out as gay, but he did describe himself at the time as not straight. |
| 1:22.9 | But I wasn't talking about him. |
| 1:24.4 | And I wasn't talking about John Smith either, who was the former director of Love and Action, |
| 1:28.3 | another ministry that tried to convert gay people into straight people. |
| 1:31.3 | Smith came out in 2011, married a dude, moved to Texas, and I'm not talking about John Polk, |
| 1:37.3 | the founder of Love One Out, a gay conversion therapy program run by the anti-gay hate group, focus on the family. |
| 1:43.3 | He came out as gay or came out as gay again |
| 1:46.1 | in 2013. And I'm not talking about Ben Grisham or Jeremy Marks or Tim Rimal or Anthony Van |
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