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?
Contents:
- WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- EX-GAY RCUED BY THE POWER OF THE CROSS
- BODY OF MISSG PRIT ALLEGEDLY PART OF GAY NETWORK REPORTEDLY FOUND TX
- WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
- EX GAY MBIó SU VIDA AL ACEPTAR A CRISTO, SE Só Y HOY PADRE TR HIJAS
- NETFLIX’S “PRAY AWAY” CONONTS THE LI OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
- EX-GAY SCUBRE QUE SU MADRE ORABA POR SU SALVACIóN TODOS LOS DíAS
- FOUNR OF FIRST ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRY DI, AND THE TRIBUT ARE POURG
WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?
* padre ex gay *
" The article stated that, "Former members of anizatns that advoted therapy to 'cure' homosexualy have joed LGBT groups rejectg the ncept.
Last year, John Plk, formerly a very proment ex-gay married to his ex-gay wife, Anne, went back to his gay liftyle after 15 years of marriage.
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.
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. * padre ex gay *
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. 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. Fourth, plenty of people are not happy livg as homosexuals, be bee of their spirual nvictns or bee of relatnal or health issu.
Do we tell them, "Hey, there's no reason for you to thk about changg, sce there are proment ex-ex-gays sayg that change is impossible"? 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.
Sixth, human nature is ail and homosexual attractns are often very eply rooted, to the pot that people believe they were actually born gay. 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 RCUED BY THE POWER OF THE CROSS
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. The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. ” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.
The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. “But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says.
The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard. Christopher Sale, a man who spent s the homosexual liftyle and was rcued om that way of life through the grace of the sacraments and a votn to Our Lady of Guadalupe, and healed of all disorred attractns. Misterg to homosexuals is a "tough love" mistry, but I refe to jeopardize the soul of a homosexual the ways that many of our prits are dog today.
BODY OF MISSG PRIT ALLEGEDLY PART OF GAY NETWORK REPORTEDLY FOUND TX
El Papa Francis habló sobre la homosexualidad en su entrevista n el perdista pañol Jordi Évole, transmida hoy por el nal La Sexta, y reflexnó sobre si o no pedo. En efecto, tal o señala el Catecismo la Iglia Católi en su numeral 2358, "un número apreciable hombr y mujer prentan tenncias homosexual profundamente arraigadas.
WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
Estas personas tán llamadas a realizar la voluntad Ds en su vida, y, si son cristianas, a unir al sacrific la cz l Señor las dificultas que puen enntrar a a su ndición", aña el Catecismo, que di a línea siguiente que "las personas homosexual tán llamadas a la stidad". El Santo Padre también se refirió a unas claracn suyas en el vuelo papal retorno Irlanda a Roma en agosto 2018, en que ansejó a los padr niños que mutren aparente tenncia homosexual recurrir a un psiquiatra.
Pero dialogo, dialogo, vos sos papá y mamá, vos sos hija o hijo, pero nun se echa l hogar a una persona porque tenga tenncia homosexual". SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas () - Police believe a body found buried a shallow grave is a retired prit wh a sndalo past lked to a gay work of prits Massachetts.
Father Harrgton said this "bal of homosexual bishops and prits" worked together to fabrite an accatn that he was stalkg a teenage parishner at Fr. After a year of actn by semary lears and "feelg creasgly unfortable around Farrell and prsured by the gay muny of semarians and faculty that I was no longer wele, " Fr.
EX GAY MBIó SU VIDA AL ACEPTAR A CRISTO, SE Só Y HOY PADRE TR HIJAS
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. 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.
NETFLIX’S “PRAY AWAY” CONONTS THE LI OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
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.
”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. 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.
EX-GAY SCUBRE QUE SU MADRE ORABA POR SU SALVACIóN TODOS LOS DíAS
But the “scientific” methods ed this study would make any legimate rearcher crge; the “study” managers did not terview a large group of “ex-gays;” they simply sought out people who claimed that they had been harmed (an tensive procs that took a full five years) and then nmned such therapy. Robert Spzer of Columbia Universy surveyed a wi range of ex-gays and found that 1% of the men and 4% of the women had been clilly prsed durg the prev twelve months.
Regardls of the half-baked ratnalizatns and “studi” they may posss, homosexual activists are simply aaid of ex-gays, the same manner that ancient Greeks were aaid of the basilisk. Now may be impractil to “nvert” totally om homosexualy to heterosexualy, but if unselg n allow a gay man to rpond sexually to women, should be enuraged and appld, not lambasted or lampooned.
FOUNR OF FIRST ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRY DI, AND THE TRIBUT ARE POURG
In natns where “nversn therapy” has been banned, homosexual activists have liberately approached Christian unselors pretendg to want to bee straight, and have lied to them orr to strip them of their licens.
In England, for example, profsnal associatns require therapists to affirm homosexualy ― even if a person wants to leave that liftyle. As one leadg English homosexual activist said, “We want to root out therapists and psychiatrists who are practicg the techniqu and ultimately brg an end to them through exposg them, as well as disptg their meetgs. The homosexual activist group Soulforce has blockad and harassed people at meetgs where ex-gays have gathered to tell their stori.
Psychologists and unselors the jurisdictns are forbidn to unsel homosexuals their attempts to bee straight — even if they want this unselg — but are perfectly ee to tell a straight person all about the many alleged benefs of homosexualy. It is morally repugnant and downright dangero the way the extremists monize young people and prey on the fears of parents through their so-lled ex-gay programs. This report expos the extent to which the zealots will go, cludg reformulatg their ex-gay snake oil at the expense of vulnerable children and young adults.