The "ex-gay" Christian activist group, Exodus International, has issued a letter on their website, condemning Uganda's kill-the-gays bill that remains unresolved, threating to impose the death penalty on HIV-positive gay men in Uganda and life in prison for all other gays. The hypocrisy is that Exodus was involved in the gestation of the bill and sidesteps this fact in their letter. They are trying to have their anti-gay cake in Uganda, and to eat their "compassionate" cake here in the U.S.A.
•implicitly denies the existence of sexual orientation, referring only to behavior.
•falsely states that Exodus has not supported legislation depriving others of “life and dignity,” despite the organization’s prior support for Uganda’s March 2009 pro-genocide conference and years of official organizational support for legislation that separates LGBT parents from their children and that fosters discrimination and ostracism against LGBT workers, renters, and youths.
•conspicuously omits “liberty” and “the pursuit of happiness” from the “life and dignity” that it claims to uphold.
•fails to hold president Alan Chambers and board member Don Schmierer accountable for their negligent and reckless affirmation of the March 2009 conference and subsequent disregard for human life in Uganda
•is one year late — an official statement was sought by human-rights advocates and ex-gay watchdogs a full year ago, when such a statement could have prevented Uganda’s ensuing genocide campaign.
•is likely to be ignored by the organization’s partners in Uganda — and by Exodus Global Alliance –because it is a year late and written under extreme public pressure.
•sidesteps the only truly literal “conservative” interpretation of the Bible regarding homosexuality — an interpretation which requires LGBT people to be stoned to death by the self-righteous. There are NO Bible verses which support Exodus and NARTH’s discredited variations of reparative therapy, nor any verses calling for Exodus-style discrimination and deception, though some verses may be liberally and non-literally interpreted as an affirmation of same-sex orientation.
•fails to affirm any human rights whatsoever — it opposes antigay genocide solely because genocide prevents churches from evangelizing those who are slaughtered. To Exodus, human lives are just pawns in a chess game, or ticks on a scorecard.
•falsely and piously claims that signers have sole ownership of unspecified “transformation” — a deliberate insinuation that said signers have been “cured” of their sexual orientation.
•falsely characterizes Christianity as a right-wing ideological “identity” and not a spiritual profession or practice.
