Exodus International is a group who puts up billboards and utilizes other marketing attempts to provide individuals with the strength, support and guidance to turn a gay straight. Okay, like a dog can become a cat.

In the age old debate of whether or not it’s a choice, decision or something that is genetically programmed within us - our orientation that is. Well, I think that a company who’s life’s crusade is to straighten out the fabulous and grand is just retarded. How about supporting people - as a whole, no matter their life orientation.

And remember folks, sexual persuasion is only something that happens in the private of someones home. Unless you intend to watch them have sex, do you really care?

Twenty days ago I received a cease and desist letter from Liberty Counsel, a law firm representing Exodus International, a group that claims to offer gay people “freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ.� They demanded that I take down a parody image I’d created (seen above) of an offensive, anti-gay billboard which they’d put up around the country, on the grounds that it infringed upon their intellectual property rights.

I immediately contacted the ACLU, EFF, and anyone else that I thought might be interested or would be able to lend a hand. The ACLU looked into the facts of the case and very generously offered to represent me in partnership with the law firm of Fenwick & West. Free of charge. And I don’t mean a single lawyer, I mean a team of four experts in Intellectual Property, Free Speech, Copyright, and GLBT Rights.

Source/Read more at A Response to Liberty - Justinsomnia