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Fewer Than Ten People Show Up For Ex-Gay Pride Event That Expected to Draw 'Thousands'

Yesterday, American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios spoke to Ex-Gay Pride Month organizer Christopher Doyle about today’s ex-gay lobby day on Capitol Hill(link is external). Doyle, who was organizing the since-canceled Ex-Gay Pride banquet(link is external) at the Family Research Council, complained in an interview with the Christian Post(link is external) that “un-American” LGBT rights advocates have “shut us out,” explaining that “because of all this homo-fascism and indoctrination in the media, ex-gays aren’t given a fair shake.”

Rios confidently predicted that “thousands of ex-gays are descending” on Washington for a press conference planned for today at the Supreme Court. She lamented that when she led Concerned Women for America the media(link is external) refused to hear “our ex-gay friends” because it “undermined the whole effort of the homosexual lobby.”

Doyle told Rios that “tens of thousands” of ex-gays exist but are “in the closet because of fear, shame and threats from gay activists.”

Well, despite the expectation that “thousands of ex-gays” would partake in Ex-Gay Pride Month, fewer than ten people showed up for the big event.

Besides Doyle, ex-gay activists Greg Quinlan(link is external) of Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays (PFOX), Richard Cohen(link is external) of the International Healing Foundation and Douglas McIntyre(link is external) of Homosexuals Anonymous also participated.

 

 

Photo credit: Tory Roberts

UPDATE: As Tory noted(link is external), Voice of the Voiceless board member Chuck Peters(link is external) even came up with an ex-gay chant(link is external).