Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans
For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), on Thursday chided ex-gay
activists who have denounced the “ex-gay” movement they once
led.
Recently, nine former leaders of the
“ex-gay” movement, including Yvette Cantu Schneider, former
executive director of Living in Victory Ministry, denounced attempts
to alter a person's sexuality from gay to straight as “ineffective
and harmful.”
(Related: 9
former “ex-gay” leaders denounce conversion therapy as
“ineffective and harmful.”)
Others have also come forward,
including Alan Chambers, the former president of controversial
“ex-gay” Christian therapy group Exodus International and Randy
Thomas, a former executive vice president at Exodus.
Speaking on Janet Mefferd's radio show,
LaBarbera described the ex-ex-gay activists as “sellouts” who are
“negating the word of God to score some points with the politically
correct thought police” while hurting “people trapped in
homosexuality.”
Randy Thomas “needs to apologize to
the body of Christ now for selling out the Bible,” he said.
“That's an apology I want to see from Alan Chambers and Randy
Thomas and all of these sellouts, is people saying I'm coming back to
this route and then apologizing to the body of Christ for promoting
error.”
He
added that Schneider's apology was “very sad.”
“This one is a stab in the back to
all of her pro-family friends. And I pray that Yvette will turn back
to the Bible and turn back to God and apologize for this apostasy,”
LaBarbera said.