Rights Groups Take on "Ex-Gay" Ministries

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Rights Groups Take on "Ex-Gay" Ministries
By Cléo Fatoorehchi


NEW YORK, May 4, 2011 (IPS) - Groups peddling the widely discredited notion that gay people can be "cured" of their sexual orientation are encountering staunch resistance to their message, even as converts insist that they are leading happier lives.

In March, 150,000 people signed an online petition to successfully demand that Apple pull an app from the "ex-gay" organisation Exodus International, which claims that "homosexual behaviour is not in God's will or design", in the words of Jeff Buchanan, director of the Exodus Church Association.

"We removed the Exodus International app from the App Store because it violated our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AFP at the time.

Exodus may be the best-known "ex-gay" organisation, but it is far from the only one. ............(more)

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