Ex-gays scend upon D.C. to lobby agast LGBTQ rights

Contents:

• ‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED
• WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
• EX-GAY IS HERE TO STAY
• EX GAY IMáGEN DE STOCK
• 338.383 FOTOS STOCK E IMáGEN ALTA ROLUCIóN  GAY
• EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ONCE-PROMENT 'NVERSN THERAPIST' WILL NOW 'PURSUE LIFE AS A GAY MAN'
• 2606 FOTOS STOCK E IMáGEN ALTA ROLUCIóN  EX GAY
• I INFILTRATED AN 'EX-GAY' GROUP NEW YORK CY — AND THIS IS WHAT IT DID TO ME
• MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED

He spent 17 years a doomed marriage while battlg his urg all day, he said, and dreamg about them all recent years, as he probed his childhood unselg and at men’s weekend retreats wh nam like People Can Change and Journey Into Manhood, “my homosexual feelgs have nearly vanished, ” Mr.

Smh is one of thoands of men across the untry, often known as “ex-gay, ” who believe they have changed their most basic sexual sir through some batn of therapy and prayer — somethg most scientists say has never been proved possible and is likely an men are often closeted, fearg ridicule om gay advot who acce them of self-ceptn and, at the same time, fearg rejectn by their church muni as tated oddi. ”But many ex-gays have ntued to seek help om such therapists and men’s retreats, sayg their own experience is proof enough that the treatment n Bzer, 35, was so angered by the California ban, which will take effect on Jan. He was tormented as a Christian teenager by his homosexual attractns, but now, after men’s retreats and an onle urse of reparative therapy, he says he feels glimmers of attractn for women and is thkg about datg.

WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

Bzer, who plans to seek a doctorate psychology and bee a therapist ex-gays guard their secret but quietly meet support groups around the untry, sharg ias on how to avoid temptatns or, perhaps, broach their past wh a female date. The theori, which have also been adopted by nservative relig opponents of gay marriage, hold that male homosexualy emerg om fay dynamics — often a distant father and an overbearg mother — or om early sexual abe. Spzer, publicly repudiated as valid his own 2001 study suggtg that some people uld change their sexual orientatn; the study had been wily ced by fenrs of the this summer, the ex-gay world was nvulsed when Alan Chambers, the print of Exod Internatnal, the largt Christian mistry for people fightg same-sex attractn, said he did not believe anyone uld be rid of homosexual Nilosi, a psychologist and clil director of the Thomas Aquas Psychologil Clic Enco, Calif., which he scrib as the largt reparative therapy clic the world, disagreed.

Crics like Wayne Ben, the executive director of Tth Ws Out, which fights antigay bias, liken such therapy to fah healg, wh apparent effects that later fa also pot out that the failur of such therapy are seldom reported. Swaim is unemployed and liv wh his parents Orange County, Calif., where his father is a pastor of the Evangelil Friends Church of the tried the gay life, but “ jt don’t settle wh me, ” he said, and ultimately cid “there’s got to be a way to heal this afflictn. As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct.

Church historian Richard Lovelace’s 1978 book Homosexualy and the Church garnered hearty endorsements om evangelil lumari Ken Kantzer (a former CT edor), Elisabeth Ellt, Chuck Colson, Harold Ockenga, and Carl F. First, would require profsg Christians who are gay to have the urage both to avow [acknowledge] their orientatn openly and to obey the Bible’s clear junctn to turn away om the active homosexual life-style. The church’s sponsorship of openly avowed but repentant homosexuals learship posns would be a profound wns to the world ncerng the power of the Gospel to ee the church om homophobia and the homosexual om guilt and bondage.

EX-GAY IS HERE TO STAY

Yet this was the Christian visn of Lovelace and Henry, Ockenga and Ellt, Kantzer and Colson, Lewis and Graham, Schaeffer and Stott, and a young gay evangelil Anglin who felt too aaid to e his own name, even though he was still a virg. As I watch evangelil church and nomatns fumble their way through discsns of sexual orientatn and inty, often enforcg the language and tegori of a failed ex-gay movement, we’re missg the real battle: The surroundg culture has nvced the world that Christians hate gay people.

EX GAY IMáGEN DE STOCK

They are already send-gusg their fah bee they hear all around them that Christians hate gay people, and they n’t pot to anyone their ngregatn who is gay, is fahful, and is loved and accepted as such. In regards to the qutn of whether or not homosexualy is a permanent ndn, one of the earlit historil rerds regardg of the existence of ex-homosexuals is a letter of the Apostle Pl to the Corthian Christian church. Whehead thored a book wh his wife entled My Gen Ma Me Do - a scientific look at sexual orientatn which argu that there is no geic termism regards to homosexualy and that there is abundant documentatn that dividuals are able to leave homosexualy and bee heterosexuals.

The studi have been so numero that Wt (a gay man) 1977 took an entire chapter his classic book, Homosexualy Re-examed, to review them, and mented: “Although some ant homosexuals fd such claims improbable and unpalatable, thentited acunts have been published of apparently exclive and long-standg homosexuals unexpectedly changg their orientatn. ” [8] For example, when the alleged homosexual, male pengu "Harry" mated wh a female pengu (see: Homosexualy animals myth), the homosexual activist Wayne Ben angrily exclaimed "“There is no ‘ex-gay’ sexual orientatn.

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’”[9] In Madison, Wisns an ex-homosexual was forced to do 50 hours of muny service and unrgo "tolerance trag" (or face jail time and f) due to a discsn he had wh a homosexual (see: Hate Crime Law Misapplied to Ex-homosexual). The nial that homosexualy is a choice by homosexual activists and liberals is siar to the behavr of fat acceptance movement activists who sist that beg overweight is never a choice and ostracize ex-overweight people (see: fat acceptance movement for tails).

EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS

The classic biblil mentator Matthew Henry wrote the followg regardg the fivens and sanctifitn Christ for those who repent of the above ss listed the letter of Pl to the Corthians (which clus the s of homosexualy):. As the publisher of a 13 year old perdil which targets Black gays and lbians, I have had the opportuny to publicly addrs thoands, fluencg closeted people to ‘e out’ and stand up for themselv, which is particularly difficult the Ain-Amerin muny. [14] Some of the participants qu the study bee they believe they had posively changed and didn't see a need to ntue while others qu bee they cid they didn't want to change om a homosexual to an ex-homosexual.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Acrdg to the Baptist Prs, here are the rults: 15 percent of subjects experienced substantial change; "23 percent said their nversn was succsful and that homosexual attractn was eher missg or "prent only cintally or a way that do not seem to brg about distrs. "; 29 percent of subjects experienced most succs; 15 percent of subjects experienced no change and were uncid about what to do next; "4 percent had not changed and had qu the change procs, but had not embraced the "gay inty.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Asked why some people are homosexual, 42% say is "jt the way that some people prefer to live, " pared wh 30% who thk homosexualy is somethg people are born wh and 14% who believe velops bee of the way people are brought up. Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. Gay activist, Wayne Ben, who sudnly found himself at the epicenter of a new reer playg CIA wh the liv of formerly gay men and women, says the book which featur first person ttimoni by former homosexuals urg gays to “go back to the closet.

Foster, who wrote the foreword to Closg the Closet heads Powerful Change Mistry Group Internatnal, a fellowship of 14 natnal and ternatnal mistri to homosexuals muni of lor who seek change om unwanted homosexualy... For such profsnals who give big money to homosexual rights anizatns exchange for their "profsnal" opns about homosexuals, keepg exgays silent and hidn has bee an to homosexuals muni of lor who seek change om unwanted homosexualy... PFOX has been the subject of at least three (and likely more) stanc of harassment bee of their view that a person n leave homosexualy; one stance volved urt actn prohibg PFOX's materials the public school settg.

Montgomery County, Maryland – A Uned Stat District Court has granted the requt of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays () for a temporary junctn prohibg the Montgomery County, Maryland public schools om implementg an anti-ex-gay sex ed curriculum. In his opn, Judge Williams noted some of the curriculum's biased statements agast ex-gays, cludg statements claimg that `[t]ryg to change one's sexual rponse to straight or gay is ually unsuccsful, ' and that `[i]n fact, is often societal homophobia that forc people to attempt to change.

ONCE-PROMENT 'NVERSN THERAPIST' WILL NOW 'PURSUE LIFE AS A GAY MAN'

Not only so, but the whole myth of homosexualy beg “nate and immutable” has been exposed, wh some gay activists even sayg that they don’t need to e the argument anymore, acknowledgg that sexualy is fluid. Regardg the notn that some people are born gay and n’t change – somethg that has been a central mantra of gay activism for s – the article not that, “many members of the LGBTQ muny reject this narrative, sayg only benefs people who feel their sexualy and genr are fixed rather than fluid, and qutng why the digny of gay people should rt on the notn that they were gay om their very first breath. Acrdgly, 2011, after I worked wh a group of several hundred Christians who hand out 2, 500 bottl of “J Lov You” water at a gay pri event Charlotte, North Carola, Wayne brand me an “anti-gay monster.

Ten years later, I found out that feelg of beg different, that csh on Stephen third gra and the nighttime fantasi I hoped no one would ever know about, were part of my life bee I was “stgglg wh homosexualy. My heart breaks every time I see one of my gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr brothers or sisters wastg months and years of their liv tryg to nvce themselv and others that they are acceptable bee they have reached some form of simulated heterosexualy.

If, every day, I fd that jt one of my gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr brothers or sisters has rid themselv of the idolatry of acceptance and found personal peace, then I have done more than I ever thought possible.

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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

A group of people om across the untry who formerly intified as gay and transgenr have scend upon Washgton this week to share their stori and lobby agast two proposed LGBTQ-rights group is ma up of 15 members of Church Uned and Changed, two California-based anizatns that seek to provi muny for, and protect the rights of, “formers” — dividuals who formerly intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or bills the group is lobbyg agast are H. This, he said, is evinced by the fact that gays have achieved clout and succs as scientists, thors and Thoron, an LGBTQ rearcher at Human Rights Watch, lled the assertn of the “formers” unfound and said the bills they’re lobbyg agast are “long overdue.

I INFILTRATED AN 'EX-GAY' GROUP NEW YORK CY — AND THIS IS WHAT IT DID TO ME

David Mathon, a once proment Mormon “nversn therapist” who claims to have helped some gay men rema heterosexual marriag, is lookg for a revelatn broke Sunday night after the LGBTQ nonprof Tth Ws Out obtaed a private Facebook post ma by “nversn therapy” advote Rich Wyler, which stated that Mathon “says that livg a sgle, celibate life ‘jt isn’t feasible for him, ’ so he’s seekg a male partner.

Mathon, who was married to a woman for 34 years and is now divorced, also nfirmed an terview wh NBC News that he is now datg gay nversn therapy, which is sometim referred to as “ex-gay therapy” or “reparative therapy, ” is a psdoscientific practice that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.

His 2013 book, “Beg a Whole Man, ” chronicl his “six-year qut” to rid himself of “unwanted” homosexualy, acrdg to the book’s a statement Mathon emailed to Tth Ws Out on Sunday, he refed to renounce his past work or nmn what he lled “mixed-orientatn marriag. And jt two months ago, Tth Ws Out exposed “ex-gay therapist” Norman Goldwasser after allegedly disvered him solicg men on gay datg said “nversn therapy” programs give people false hope that they n be “cured” of beg LGBTQ.

MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

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His bulic childhood as the son of lovg Christian parents (a doctor and hoewife Orange County), olst brother of six boys (Dylan, Logan, At, Colton and Jordan — which admtedly sounds like the setup to a chey gang bang porno, but was really jt the nam of my ex boyiend and his brothers) was created to both tillate the group lear and nfound his ex-gay mol for ative inty formatn, which would have prumed sexual abe, an absent father or lack of same-genr peer experience as the "root" of a homosexual malformatn. Between my subtle nversatnal bag based on my faiary wh ex-gay iology, my not-so-subtle flirtg and my wng knowledge of mid-century Broadway mils, the poor guy never stood a wh the "reparative therapy" I'd received as a kid, no one among the Bleecker Boys was a profsnal therapist or licensed unselor, and I didn't pay to go to group. It was more a batn between a fabulo Bible study and an Alholics Anonymo meetg, full of "approved program lerature, " curriculum handouts and snappy -group mantras — except the "sany" we were fightg wasn't dg addictn; was our mutual malady of same sex attractn, or "SSA, " as 's known wh the ex-gay subculture (a discreet acronym which allows Ex-gays to talk wh each other about their stggle whout ever havg to speak s name).