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Exodus Launches Hefty Ad in L. A. Times 7/29/2004
By Kara Carlson
Exodus International recently released its second ad in a $200,000 campaign for overcoming homosexuality.
Randy Thomas, Exodus communications director, appears in the full-page ad of last Friday’s (July 23) Los Angeles Times. The ad is one of four in Exodus’ “Question and Answer” Campaign “challenging mainstream America to question homosexuality and encouraging the Church to provide the answer,” according to Exodus President Alan Chambers.
In the ad, Randy Thomas discusses his search for affirmation and trust. “It took an old friend to see past the mask I was wearing, to help me finally face the doubts and scars I’d been avoiding,” he says. “He showed me the irony of how my ‘mask’ was the very thing keeping me from genuine male intimacy.” Thomas no longer practices homosexuality and says he hopes one day for marriage and children.
Exodus launched the campaign in the July 8 Cincinnati Enquirer with an ad focusing on Chambers and his wife, Leslie. Subsequent ads will feature Mike Haley, director of gender issues for Focus on the Family, and his wife Angie. The couples tell their stories about walking away from homosexuality and about the significance and meaning of marriage. Gender issues analyst Melissa Fryrear, also of Focus on the Family, will appear in the campaign detailing her own story as a single woman leaving homosexuality.