Jeffrey McCall, the founder of “ex-gay” group Freedom March, has admitted to several sexual encounters with men since last year.
Freedom March has staged numerous ex-LGBTQ demonstrations across the country, delivering their message that people can “become” straight or cisgender by turning to Jesus Christ.
In a recent Facebook post, McCall, who says he used to be a gay male sex worker before founding the group, admits to “multiple” hookups with men since 2020.
“In 2020 I met someone that I was trying to help…which lead to me being unfaithful to Jesus and giving my heart away,” he wrote.
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“After denying what I wanted with him I then went on to fall sexually with a man when I felt wounded and lonely. This lead to multiple falls with men over time.”
He added that after each encounter, he would “truly repent and turn away again,” and that he could “feel Gods [sic] love, mercy, and forgiveness sometimes before I could even finish the prayer.”
McCall unfortunately has no plans to abandon his widely debunked “conversion therapy” practices. Instead, he’s doubling down, telling his group (and himself) that his same-sex encounters have caused him to “feel like I’ve grown so much spiritually” and made his “relationship with the Lord…even stronger.”
“If anything it makes me never want to fall into that sin ever again,” he added.
The post was initially found by Truth Wins Out, an organization committed to fighting anti-gay religious extremism and the harmful, ex-gay movement.
The group called McCall a “hypocritical fraud” and wants Freedom March to “permanently shut down and stop conning people into believing that they can ‘pray away the gay.’”
Conversion therapy is a widely discredited practice aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity through therapeutic means. Both the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association have denounced it as harmful, and 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have banned the practice on minors.
rangerwilcox
sounds like words of an addict where they swear they’ll not go back…
radiooutmike
So, you’re still a homosexual…Giving your love to a male divine entity?!
But that “homosexuality” is A-OK. But the corporeal kind isn’t?
ingyaom
Is this person not a native English speaker? It sounds like his statements were translated from a foreign language … or that he has brain-damage.
jcool
brain damage
Donston
My thing has always been that people have the right to live whatever (non-illegal, non-abusive) they wish to live. If someone is homosexual or sexually homo-leaning but chooses not to indulge that, that’s their right. While you never know what types of traumas, mental health struggles, fluidity, paraphilias someone’s been through or where they are in the gender, sexual, romantic, emotional investment, relationship comfort, commitment spectrum.
The problem is people’s resentments and issues leading them to manipulate, to push false narratives or to promote hate. While his whole perspective is very sin on Saturday, be forgiven on Sunday. And that’s the exact viewpoint which makes a lot of hyper Christians come off phony and hypocritical.
barryaksarben
You got it wrong – they dont come off as phony and hypocritical they are phony and hypocritical
Jaquelope
The viewpoint you cite has been one that has been going on for as long as there has been religion, so it’s nothing new, really, but a continuation of it.
Donston
Yeah, I’m aware that it’s not new. There isn’t really anything that’s new under the sun, especially when it comes to religion and how people implement it on others.
The dude clearly has issues when it comes to sexuality, self-resentment, ego, mental health, religious guilt and maybe with traumas, fluidity, contradictions, understanding his placement in the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotional investment, commitment spectrum. Now, he’s trying to use his “dalliances” to claim it got him even closer to god. Anything to make him feel better about his behaviors and struggles and to continue to brand himself. Religious people have been using that “it brought me closer to god” type shit to excuse “sin” and to not confront a bevy of other issues since forever.
barryaksarben
HE was a sex worker? who in the bloodly FU*KING hell would have sex let alone pay for it with this Balloon headed ugly piggy-eyed pos? Yeah he is a 2 bit whore but only for dumb-ass fake religious fools and deplorables. Just my opinion but pretty valid
Donston
You try to come “sensitive” and “understanding”. But then you lean over into body-shaming and ignorance.
Many people who look a variety of ways indulge sex work. In fact, most sex workers don’t look like models or typical porn performers.
Fahd
The link for Truth Wins Out should be included in the story so people could more easily make contributions. Conversion therapy and its variants should join other dangerous medieval practices as a relic of the past. More states and countries should pass laws banning conversion therapy. Ridding the world of such practices is a worthy cause.
dannysax
Most likely the guy used to be buff and slimmer and allowed food to take the place of sex when he went nuts with this widely disproved theory. I was in that boat for many years, believing God could take away my gayness. I finally found a church and a pastor that convinced me that He/She didn’t make a mistake and that was how I was made. I feel so much better today and gladly accept who I am. Out of the group I used to belong to, the fundamentalist Navigators, about 5 of my team were gay or were struggling just like I was!
Shady Gaga
He was a sex worker? That must have been 20 years and 200 pounds ago. Or maybe his definition of “sex-worker,” is that he had to work really, really hard to get someone to have sex with him.
nitejonboy
Well bears can be sex workers too, though usually they have to at least have a cute face which is not what I’d call that
MHaumesser
I feel that the old saying “those that yell the loudest against something are usually doing it themselves!” seems to fit this man. Someone should tell this man you can be gay and also believe in God.
Essie
I feel sorry for him. It’s hard not understanding who you are. However, I feel even sorrier for the men he has sex with. He hates himself so much that one day he’s going to go off on one of them and cause a lot of damage. I doubt he is intelligent enough to seek the help he really needs. This is an awful and very dangerous situation.
mateo
I wouldn’t be upset that he was having gay sex (as hateful as his hypocricy may be) but having sex with strangers in 2020? Is he also a Covid nay-sayer, then?
Kangol2
He could be vaccinated and wear a mask, condom and use PrEP and have quite safe sex with a stranger, no?
Kangol2
Look, if you are LGBTQ and so troubled you feel that you need Jesus to “cure” you, personally, that’s on you, though as this man’s example and countless others demonstrate, you probably are still going to be struggling with and through the complexities of your orientation, desires, gender identity and performance, etc. or not. A Bible and prayer are not equal to real psychological therapy and counseling, but if it works for you individually, that’s on you.
The problem is the dangerous, anti-gay Ex Gay movement, which is foisted on children and young adults, and still entraps a sizable number of adult people struggling with their sexuality, gender identity, etc., often by people, many of them calling themselves Christians, working in very bad faith (pun intended). For children and young adults, it can be particularly deadly. This man is clearly a hypocrite, but he’s also deeply troubled, and needs to grasp that the problem is NOT his sexuality, same-sexual desire, or same-sexual acts, but his inability to deal with them, and his recourse in an ideology and teaching that lead him to deny who he is, what he desires and how to healthily deal with them.
Hank31
This is shocking. No, not that an “ex gay” is still gay. What’s shocking is that Queerty has done: 1) original reporting, 2) on a newsworthy topic, 3) which is of particular interest to gay people.
Openminded
And cue the Cam to declare you a tired, amusing troll that is deflecting from the story. Oh, I forgot, Right winger also. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to other’s in the basement of Cam’s mommy.
mailliw110
They did it just for you! Because you are “special”!
JanDivine
It’s his life, not my business. If he chooses to live his life along this path I am no one to chastise him. It’s not what I would choose for me, that’s not his business. As long as we leave each other alone, I hope he is satisfied doing it his way.
twomen4u
I did not come out until I was 40 and that time had a pulpit, wife and two children. I walked away from all of that as I had to be true to myself. Looking back over my childhood and teenage years but growing up in a small central FL town, the word homosexual was NEVER spoken. I have come to believe I was born gay but did not act on it until I was a teenager. The society stepped in with get your degree, marry and have 2.5 kids which I exceeded – ha.
This man is in self-imposed turmoil. He really needs to take a step back and acknowledge who and what he is as a person. Then and only then will he find peace. God makes NO mistakes. I have made deep studies with a Bible in hand and other texts. God loves me just as I am as I am His child and nothing is going to change that despite what society says. I wish I could talk to him and give him the peace he is seeking. Then and only then will he be true to himself.
Chris
You don’t just claim that you’re no longer Gay. Fine, you weren’t Gay in the first place. You and people like you that claim that they’re no longer Gay are the real PERVERTS! you’
and your asinine religion are disgusting. You perverted dumb ass!?