TWO Calls On Delaware GOP Senate Nominee Christine O’Donnell To Apologize For Running Failed Ex-Gay

[Joanne98]

Truth Wins Out called on GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell, last night’s victorious Tea Party candidate in Delaware, to apologize for running a failed “ex-gay” ministry while she headed the Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT). O’Donnell heavily promoted the “ex-gay” industry and hired Wade Richards, an “ex-gay” poster-boy, to deliver this message .

“Christine O’Donnell is an extremist and was a staunch supporter of the lie that people can ‘pray away the gay’,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “It is time that she apologizes for harming people with her failed ‘ex-gay’ program and for pushing a lie that obviously did not work.”

SALT staff member, Wade Richards, came out of the closet and renounced the “ex-gay” ministries in an August 14, 2000 Advocate magazine article.

“I’ve been through so much in my life already,” Richards, 21, told the Advocate in 2000. “But the one constant is I’m gay. I just want to spend some time being who I am.”
http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2010/09/11265/