...both [Joseph] Nicolosi and Exodus stress that the process isn't for everybody. People who are gay and happy won't find it useful. "We have to work with people who are broken and ready," says Anita Worthen, a counselor at New Hope Ministries in San Rafael, California.

From Newsweek Magazine Article: "Can Gays 'Convert?'"
August 17, 1998

Here is my letter to Newsweek in response to their latest issue:

Dear Editor:

As a happy lesbian, I was pleased to read that Exodus ministries realizes they can do nothing to help me become "ex-gay." It's telling that such ministries readily admit that they target confused and vulnerable individuals for their insidious form of religious manipulation.

I'd like to share with you how I became a happy homosexual: I realized that the God I love and hold dear is not homophobic, the homophobia resides in the church founded in my Savior's name. The moment I realized that I could be both gay and Christian was the moment I was free from the shackles of the church's homophobia. These people who are ripe for the picking by "ex-gay" ministries are confused and vulnerable because they're told by the church and their families that they are unloved, even by God, unless they change their sexual orientation.

Hear the good news: God loves gays and lesbians just as God created them. Jesus says "whosoever" believes is accepted, without condition, by God. The love offered by Exodus is conditional. There are no conditions on God's love.

Blessings,
Candace