In 1998, a aln of antigay, pro-fay activist anizatns published a set of full-page prt advertisements several natnally regnized newspapers. The ads promoted sexual (ex-gay) nversn therapy for homosexuals. I exame the advertisements as a ntt over cultural symbols a …
Contents:
- WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?
- WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
- EX-GAY RHETORIC AND THE POLICS OF SEXUALY: THE CHRISTIAN ANTIGAY/PRO-FAY MOVEMENT'S "TTH LOVE" AD MPAIGN
- MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
- ‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED
- NETFLIX’S “PRAY AWAY” CONONTS THE LI OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
- EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?
While speakg Sgapore at a semar sponsored by Foc on the Fay, I was asked the qutn: What about ex-ex-gays? Do their existence prove that is really impossible for people to change their sexual orientatn? * agenor o ex gay *
First, for every well-known ex-ex-gay, there are 10 or 100 or 1, 000 unknown ex-gays—meang people who formerly lived as homosexuals but no longer do.
Send, the term "ex-gay" has lots of different meangs (some lears like the term, while others don't), rangg om, "I ed to be volved same-sex relatnships, and I am no longer am, " to, "My romantic and sexual sir have changed om homosexual to heterosexual, " along wh everythg between. I know some ex-gays who are thrilled to be ee om their old liftyl spe the fact that they have not bee heterosexual, and they are overflowg wh ntentment, livg for God as celibate sgl. I know others who, through unselg or a ep spirual enunter wh the Lord, lerally went om homosexual to heterosexual (this is more mon than you might realize), and they have lived like this for s now.
WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
The LGBT movement is terrified to let ex-gays e "out of the closet." Why? Bee the existence of ex-gays prov that... * agenor o ex gay *
The only fully documented, book-length, longudal study of the qutn of ex-gays, entled Ex-Gays?, by Stanton Jon and Mark Yarhoe, me to very posive nclns, spe beg ridiculed by gay activists. But if we foc on changg someone om homosexualy to heterosexualy rather than om homosexualy to hols, there is the possibily of great tratn and even disappotment and backslidg.
That's why we mt jo together grace and tth when reachg out to those who intify as gay or lbian, monstratg passn and longsufferg whout promisg the tth of the gospel. The bottom le is that homosexual practice, unr all circumstanc, is sful, and nothg n possibly change that fact, but is equally te that there is liberty and new life J, and those willg to take up the cross and follow Him will never need to look back.
EX-GAY RHETORIC AND THE POLICS OF SEXUALY: THE CHRISTIAN ANTIGAY/PRO-FAY MOVEMENT'S "TTH LOVE" AD MPAIGN
* agenor o ex gay *
Sce I expect gay bloggers and ex-ex-gays to rpond to this article crilly, if you are one of the many who, by God's grace, have e out of homosexualy, please take a moment to rpond here as well.
MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
S. J. Creek, Jennifer L. Dunn, "Be Ye Transformed": The Sexual Storytellg of Ex-gay Participants, Soclogil Foc, Vol. 45, No. 4 (October-December 2012), pp. 306-319 * agenor o ex gay *
The 19th century wrer Osr Wil is revered by many the gay and lbian muny but, believe me, if he were alive now, he’d be totally exasperated wh the whg, hysteril malntents who domate today’s gay lobby.
‘EX-GAY’ MEN FIGHT BACK AGAST VIEW THAT HOMOSEXUALY CAN’T BE CHANGED
The disgraced right-wg provotr, biddg to rema relevant, likens beg gay to an addictn and ntu to attack trans people. * agenor o ex gay *
If n be proved that homosexual people n “nvert” to heterosexualy, then the theory that “gays are born that way” is cisively exposed as junk science. If “ex-gays” exist, this means that people n change their sexual orientatn — and this means that the foundatn the homosexual rights movement, the ia that they are “born that way” and th nnot help themselv, go right out the wdow. Many ex-gays are aaid to e out of the closet bee of the harassment they will receive — their nam, phone numbers and personal rmatn posted on gay webs, attacked at ex-gay exhib booths, prs releas issued agast them, etc.
The tactics of gay activists are to go after anyone who out publicly as ex-gay, force them back to the closet, and then claim that ex-gays don’t exist bee there aren’t any out public. The more-or-ls “official” posn of the homosexual rights movement is that “there has never been a sgle documented se of change sexual orientatn.
NETFLIX’S “PRAY AWAY” CONONTS THE LI OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
”3 This is an odd assertn, sce a tailed review of homosexual obuari showed several exampl of men who were happily married, who had children, and who nsired themselv “straight” sudnly abandong their fai and embracg the homosexual “liftyle.
EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
For example, Nicholas Cummgs, a former Print of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, has stated that he knows of hundreds of homosexuals who have succsfully changed their orientatn. He should know, sce he and his staff have treated over 2, 000 homosexual people wh mental problems, many of whom sired to change their orientatn.