Michael Johnston, a notorious preacher who had walked away from his gay lifestyle in order to convert others to the straight and narrow (and to help them become narrowly straight), has apparently walked back to his gay lifestyle:

Ex-gay leader experiences ‘moral fall’: Five years after starring in a national advertising campaign claiming gays can change their sexual orientation, Michael Johnston experienced a “moral fall” and left behind his ministries, two conservative Christian groups that worked with Johnston confirmed this week... Johnston appeared with his mother, Frances Johnston, in a controversial print ad under the headline “From innocence to AIDS.” A similar television commercial also appeared in 1998, dubbed “Mom.” “My son Michael found out the truth — he could walk away from homosexuality. But he found out too late — he has AIDS,” Frances Johnston says in the television commercial... Johnston now apparently becomes the second star of the campaign known to have failed in maintaining his “ex-gay” status, and the scandal surrounding both ex-gay leaders was uncovered by the same enterprising gay activist. John Paulk, who appeared in the 1998 ex-gay ads and on the cover of Newsweek with his “ex-lesbian” wife Anne Paulk, was spotted in a popular gay bar in Washington, D.C., in September 2000. Wayne Besen, a former communications staffer with the Human Rights Campaign, photographed Paulk in the bar, Mr. P’s... After Paulk’s gay bar visit three years ago, Exodus International, a leading ex-gay organization where Paulk served as board chair, placed him on probation and removed his voting rights. Six months later, Exodus restored Paulk to the board, although not as chair. At the time of his fall, Paulk also served as manager of the Homosexuality & Gender Department at Focus on the Family, a Colorado-based group that opposes gay rights... Paulk wasn’t the ex-gay movement’s first brush with scandal. Gary Cooper and Michael Bussee organized the 1976 conference of ex-gays out of which Exodus International was formed. But Cooper and Bussee later fell in love with each other and left their wives to live together as a couple, becoming frequent talk show guests in the 1990s. And Wade Richards, an “ex-gay” featured in a 2000 press conference by anti-gay groups, came out as gay again in an interview with the Advocate several months later.