“This slowness is nothing new to Exodus. In March 2009, Exodus board member Don Schmierer participated in a conference that fanned the flames of homophobia in Uganda. An announcement of the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill swiftly followed. Yet it was eight months before Alan Chambers weighed in to denounce the bill, a year before Exodus made an official statement and 15 months before Exodus issued a mea culpa taking some responsibility for Schmierer’s role in the conference.
Always too little, too late. If you’re a Christian leader and it takes you a year to realize that executing homosexuals is an idea worth fighting against, or that the lives of kids are more important than your religious agenda, it’s probably time for a radical reassessment of your values.” ~ Dave Rattigan

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“This slowness is nothing new to Exodus. In March 2009, Exodus board member Don Schmierer participated in a conference that fanned the flames of homophobia in Uganda. An announcement of the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill swiftly followed. Yet it was eight months before Alan Chambers weighed in to denounce the bill, a year before Exodus made an official statement and 15 months before Exodus issued a mea culpa taking some responsibility for Schmierer’s role in the conference.
Always too little, too late. If you’re a Christian leader and it takes you a year to realize that executing homosexuals is an idea worth fighting against, or that the lives of kids are more important than your religious agenda, it’s probably time for a radical reassessment of your values.” ~ Dave Rattigan

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He (Chambers) also stressed that Christians should be the first to defend and protect kids who are being bullied.

I think so too. Which is why I pushed Exodus so hard to adopt some sort of official anti-bullying policy. Chambers resisted for months, thinking I was asking him to endorse anti-bullying programs in schools — programs that Chambers called “tools to crush Christian evangelism”.
I have also urged him to break all ties with NARTH — whose “expert” (Berger) actually suggested that parents and teachers should not discourage the teasing of “gender variant” kids. NARTH eventually retracted the Berger article after much pressure, but as far as I know, Berger is still part of NARTH — and Exodus is still a close NARTH ally.
With the body count of bullied LGBT kids mounting — and pressure from folks like Dr. Throckmortnon to take a stronger anti-bullying stand — my guess is that Chambers finally decided that LGBT kids lives were more important than his ideological opposition to homosexuality — and more important than his worries that he might be percieved as “caving in” to his critics.
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He (Chambers) also stressed that Christians should be the first to defend and protect kids who are being bullied.

I think so too. Which is why I pushed Exodus so hard to adopt some sort of official anti-bullying policy. Chambers resisted for months, thinking I was asking him to endorse anti-bullying programs in schools — programs that Chambers called “tools to crush Christian evangelism”.
I have also urged him to break all ties with NARTH — whose “expert” (Berger) actually suggested that parents and teachers should not discourage the teasing of “gender variant” kids. NARTH eventually retracted the Berger article after much pressure, but as far as I know, Berger is still part of NARTH — and Exodus is still a close NARTH ally.
With the body count of bullied LGBT kids mounting — and pressure from folks like Dr. Throckmortnon to take a stronger anti-bullying stand — my guess is that Chambers finally decided that LGBT kids lives were more important than his ideological opposition to homosexuality — and more important than his worries that he might be percieved as “caving in” to his critics.
/2006/08/31/dr-joseph-bergers-statements-on-the-narth-website-retracted/