Comments on: Australian news report on ex-gay therapy

By: Throckmorton

Throckmorton — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:45:00 +0000

Alan: Thanks for posting this.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:32:00 +0000

Sorry Alan, part duex.

Could you be kind enough to confirm the date on which this July Board meeting occurred?

The first order of business I brought to the table when I joined the Exodus Board of Directors in July of 2000 was to reject Dr. Cohen’s application for membership with Exodus, publicly distance ourselves from his ministry style and approach and to cease all sales of his materials.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:58:00 +0000

Alan Chambers,

Nice try, but perhaps you could explain why you therefore took Exodus into an alliance with Cohen in 2003?

P.A.T.H. You remember, the alliance that Cohen himself arranged.

Whatever you claim to have said in private with him, it does appear these concerns weren’t enough to say or do anything in public.

A link through to that formal policy against touch therapy would also be appreciated. (I assume anyone in the public can easily find these policies — the only reason I’m asking for the link is because I’m a novice computer/internet user.)

On a side note: while you’re in the mood to clean the Exodus site — isn’t it about time you removed all the glowing references to Paul Cameron? Including those occassions where he is deceptively quoted second-hand, eg Satinover. TE Schmidt. Concerned woman, Bob Knight etc etc etc

I also sincerely hope that now you’ve likewise joined the Board of Exodus Global Alliance you will not permit EGA to again send an official delegation to the Caribbean to support the criminal laws against gay men.

Ask Pat Lawrence and DL Foster about that one, if you need clarification. I did ask Randy Thomas on his blog, but he deleted the question; unanswered.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:32:00 +0000

Ed: So, where do I report for my flogging? 🙂

You just did 🙂

As we said, the question for you was rhetoric. We knew the answer, and the history — which is what you were referring to, but unfortunately using present tense.

By: Alan Chambers

Alan Chambers — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:51:00 +0000

By the way, Grantdale, several months ago the Exodus webpage was redone and the day after the site went live we discovered a number of very OLD links were re-added to the website. Unfortunately, Richard Cohen’s was one of them. In my estimation that site was there for maybe a day and perhaps a week at best. When I heard that it was there it came off the site that minute.

One final aside, I was aksed to join the board of PFOX several months ago and I shared with Regina Griggs and the PFOX board that I would do so only if Richard Cohen decided not to serve another term.

Again, I do not want to bash Dr. Cohen, but I do believe that his techniques are dangerous and cast a negative light on the entire change movement.