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no-in has-label wh-borr"><div class="label">Share</div></a></div></div></div></div><div class="visibily-check"></div><div class class><div class="available-ntent"><div dir="to" class="body markup"><p><span>I’ve been rearchg nnectns between Catholicism and the ex-gay movement, and my fdgs have been shockg. So far, I’ve disvered about fifty Catholic dc, natnal and ternatnal lears, media anizatns, mistri, and other stutns that have promoted nversn therapy, reparative therapists, and the </span><a href=" rel>ex-gay narrative</a><span>. </span></p><p><span>The clu: the Archdce of Denver, the Archdce of Detro, the Archdce of New York, the Archdce of Philalphia, Ascensn Prs, Benedicte College, Catholic Answers, the Catholic Archdce of Sydney, the Catholic Medil Associatn, the Catholic Universy of Ameri, , the Chasty Project, Christopher Wt, Commun, the Holy See’s Congregatn for the Clergy, Courage Internatnal, the Dce of Kansas Cy (MO), EWTN, Fr. Mike Schmz, the Francisn Friars of the Renewal, the Ghana Catholic Bishop’s Conference, Ignati Prs, the Instute for Pritly Formatn, the Instute for Psychologil Studi (Dive Mercy Universy), Jason Evert, the John Pl II Healg Center, the Knight of Columb, the Mnota Catholic Conference, the Napa Instute, the Natnal Catholic Bethics Center, Fr. Pl Check, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the Uned Natns New York</span><strong>, </strong><span>Pts wh Aquas, the Pontifil Council for the Fay, the Pontifil Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, the Pontifil John Pl II Instute for Studi on Marriage and Fay, the Pontifil Universy of St. Thomas (The Angelicum), the Semary for the Archdce of Washgton (DC), St. John Vianney Semary (MN), St. Joseph Semary (Archdce of New York), St. Michael’s Instute for Psychologil Scienc, The Catholic Man Show, The Catholic Podst, and the Theology of the Body Instute. Payg subscribers n fd a list of the stutns, and their nnectns to the ex-gay movement </span><a href=" rel>here</a><span>. </span></p><p>If the above list seems long, nsir this: was piled by a sgle person wh limed rourc who has a full time job and did this durg some of his spare time. This list has only begun to scratch the surface.</p><p><span>It’s worth notg that not all ex-gay promotn by the above were recent. For some, the promotn ntu today. For others, the promotn occurred years ago. There are also varyg gre of promotn. Some have more explicly promoted nversn therapy, while others have promoted the theori unrgirdg . (Bee there may be disagreements about whether certa dividuals or anizatns should be clud on this list, I have tried to give some tails as to why </span><em>I </em><span>believe they should be clud. You are certaly wele to make your own nclns based on those tails.) But what almost </span><em>none</em><span> of them have done (to my knowledge) is take rponsibily for the harm ed by this promotn (where there are exceptns, I have noted them). Individuals have relied on the harmful half-tths that the anizatns and dividuals dissemated, and this harm is eply related to the Church’s bad relatnship to the LGBTQ+ muny. This is not meant to be a “blacklist,” but to be an opportuny for reflectn, acuntabily, and transparency.</span></p><p><span>As I start sharg my rearch, I would like to share a list of key nam the ex-gay movement. You will fd below a list of anizatns, and a list of dividuals. This is meant to be a rource, pecially for LGBTQ+ Catholics who are beg remend books or rourc by well-meang (but naive or misrmed) Catholics. If a Catholic hands you a book on LGBTQ+ qutns, you n check this list to see if the thor (or the thors they ce) promote ex-gay theori and/or nversn therapists. Some dividuals below have played a more central role the ex-gay movement than others, but all have promoted ex-gay theori and nversn therapy. This list is a work--progrs. If you have addnal rmatn on the below or nam I should also clu, please let me know the ments below or </span><a href=" rel>ntact me directly</a><span>. </span></p><h3 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Key Organizatns and Publitns<div id="§key-anizatns-and-publitns" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h3><p><span>The </span><strong>Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry </strong><span>(ATCSI) is an ex-gay anizatn tablished 2014, largely a rebrand of NARTH.</span></p><p><strong>Brothers Road</strong><span> is a rebrand of People Can Change (PPC).</span></p><p><strong>Changed Movement</strong><span> promot stori of </span><a href=" rel>people who “overe same-sex sexualy or genr nfn.”</a><span> It argu agast intifyg as LGBTQ and suggts that one nnot be “ee” if “same-sex sexual temptatn still occurs.”</span></p><p><strong>Cornerstone Actn </strong><span>and</span><strong> Cornerstone Public Policy Rearch </strong><span>are New Hampshire-based Christian advocy anizatns. </span><a href=" rel>They promote a number of anizatns foced on helpg people overe “unwanted same-sex attractns.”</a></p><p><strong>Courage Internatnal</strong><span> is the largt Catholic anizatn for outreach to persons wh “same-sex attractn.” It was found by Father John Harvey, who was </span><a href=" rel>mted to ex-gay theori and whose work relied heavily on ex-gay theorist Elizabeth Moberly</a><span> and nversn therapists Joseph Nilosi and Richard Fzgibbons. From 1989 until at least 2021, every Courage Conference featured at least one speaker who was a reparative therapist or ex-gay advote. In 2015, Foc on the Fay’s Steve Jordahl intified Courage as “</span><a href=" rel>the ex-gay Catholic mistry.</a><span>” </span></p><p><strong>Dert Stream / Livg Waters Mistri</strong><span> is an ex-gay anizatn that promot “healg” for homosexualy. It has had </span><a href=" rel>multiple allegatns of abe by personnel</a><span>. It is </span><a href=" rel>promoted by the Rtored Hope Network</a><span>. Its founr Andrew Comiskey says he created the mistry “</span><a href=" rel>for those seekg to e out of homosexualy</a><span>.” </span><a href=" rel>Acrdg to the </a><em><a href=" rel>New York Tim</a></em><span>, Dert Stream Mistri end s affiliatn wh Exod ‘due to lear Alan Chambers’s appeasement of practicg homosexuals who claim to be Christian” as well as his qutng of the realy of ‘sexual orientatn change.’”</span></p><p><strong>Exod Internatnal</strong><span> was one of the largt-ex gay anizatns the world before s lears admted that the anizatn was based on falsehoods and shut down. It referred many for nversn therapy and ex-gay mps.</span></p><p><span>The </span><strong>Jewish Instute for Global Awarens</strong><span>, prevly known as </span><strong>Jews Offerg New Alternativ for Healg</strong><span> (</span><strong>JONAH</strong><span>) was a Jewish anizatn which offered and promoted nversn therapy. The anizatn eventually had to shut down after a lawsu rultg fdgs of nsumer d. </span></p><p><strong>Ken Williams Mistri</strong><span> provis </span><a href=" rel>(non-licensed) nversn therapy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>The Journal of Human Sexualy</strong><span> is the official publitn of ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Livg Hope Mistri</strong><span> </span><a href=" rel>provis support groups and rourc for those seekg to change their same-sex attractns</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Livg the Tth Love: Pastoral Approach to Same Sex Attractn</strong><span> was published by Ignati Prs 2015 and was eded by Ja Smh and Fr. Pl Check. It clus says by a number of reparative therapists and ex-gay advot (and a child predator), cludg Father Pl Check, Bob Schuchts, Monsignor Liv Mela, Daniel C. Mattson, David Prosen, Janelle Hallman, and Timothy Lock. </span></p><p><span>The </span><strong>Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy</strong><span> (</span><strong>NARTH</strong><span>) was a US anizatn which promoted and referred for nversn therapy, found 1992 by Joseph Nilosi, Benjam Kfman, and Charl Soris. It was closely associated wh Exod and partnered wh other ex-gay anizatns such as JONAH, Joel 2:25 Internatnal, and Evergreen Internatnal. It has been subject to var ntroversi. Its executive secretary </span><a href=" rel>Abba Golberg had a crimal nvictn for nspiracy and d</a><span>, s former officer and scientific advisor</span><a href=" rel> Gee Rekers was ught for employg a male prostute as a travel pann</a><span>, and an say on s webse by a member of s Science Advisory Commtee </span><a href=" rel>Gerald Schoenewolf claimed that Ains were fortunate to be sold to slavery</a><span>. Sce 2014, has operated unr the name </span><strong>Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry</strong><span> (</span><strong>ATCSI</strong><span>). </span></p><p><strong>People Can Change</strong><span> (PPC) is an ex-gay anizatn which led the Journey Beyond weekends. It was sued by the FTC over ceptive claims. PPC went through a rebrand and is now known as Brothers Road. It currently ns weekend events, such as Journey to Manhood, Journey Contu, and Journey Beyond.</span></p><p><strong>Raphael Remedy</strong><span> is a Catholic unselg and life achg anizatn. It is also the publisher for a text -wrten by s founr Allison Ricciardi and ex-gay advote David Prosen, </span><em><a href=" rel>Mom... Dad, I'm Gay: How Should a Catholic Parent Rpond?</a></em><span> The text promot and grounds s unrstandg the work of Fr. John Harvey, NARTH, and Neil Whehead. It clus the poorly-supported claim that “16 year olds sayg they have an SSA or Bi-orientatn are 25 tim more likely to change towards heterosexualy at the age of 17 than those wh a heterosexual orientatn are likely to change towards bi-sexualy or homosexualy.” The “two solid rourc” remend by the book are Courage and NARTH.</span></p><p><span>The </span><strong>Retegrative Therapy Associatn </strong><span>promot reparative therapy and enurag s practice among licensed profsnals.</span></p><p><span>The </span><strong>Rtored Hope Network</strong><span> is the ex-gay anizatn that took the place of Exod Internatnal after was shut down.</span></p><p><span>The </span><strong>Ruth Instute</strong><span> is a Louisiana-based Catholic anizatn that seeks to bat the “sexual revolutn.” It often featur ex-gay advote Father Pl Sulls, who 2019 </span><a href=" rel>misreprented the John Jay Report and other studi to argue that gay prits are more likely to abe children</a><span> (the report was promoted by the Ruth Instute). In Febary 2022, the Ruth Instute </span><a href=" rel>promoted a “study” by Fr. Sulls which argued</a><span> that sexual orientatn change efforts do not e harm. That study was published </span><em>Frontiers</em><span> </span><em> Psychology</em><span>, which was clud </span><a href=" rel>a list of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-accs publishers.”</a><span> After Daniel Mattson was </span><a href=" rel>acced of engagg wh a multi-year onle sexual relatnship wh a child</a><span>, </span><a href=" rel>the Ruth Instute stated</a><span> that, whether or not the allegatns were te, would “ntue to sell his book, whout apology or hatn.” </span></p><h3 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget">Key Individuals<div id="§key-dividuals" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h3><p><strong>Gerard van n Aardweg</strong><span> (b. 1936) is </span><a href=" rel>a Catholic reparative therapist. His work reli on retracted articl and junk scientists</a><span>. Aardweg seems to have a particular disda for the LGBTQ+ muny. </span><a href=" rel>He lls</a><span> “the psychologil and medil problems of many practisg homosexuals” a “nsirable and steadily creasg social burn.” </span><a href=" rel>Aardweg has said</a><span>, “Gay children do not exist” and that gay relatnships are “promiscuo by nature.” For the genis of homosexualy, </span><a href=" rel>Aardweg pots to</a><span> same-sex peer isolatn, issu parental relatnships, and “nroticism.” </span><a href=" rel>He has argued</a><span> that parents are “guilty” for their children’s homosexualy. </span><a href=" rel>He has wrten</a><span> that homosexualy is “jt a kd of nrosis” that n be cured. </span><a href=" rel>He views homosexualy</a><span> fundamentally as “a character nrosis.” Aardweg was a former member of the Scientific Advisory Commtee for the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy for Homosexuals (NARTH). NARTH is a now-funct ex-gay anizatn that referred dividuals to nversn therapy and other orientatn change efforts. NARTH was central to the Evangelil ex-gay movement’s legimatn. The qualy of Aardweg’s work n be summarized by this fact: Aardweg’s most recent article, “</span><a href=" rel>The Psychogenis of Homosexualy</a><span>” (2011) reli on a 1999 </span><em>self-published</em><span> book by fellow NARTH member </span><a href=" rel>Neil Whehead</a><span>. Whehead held no qualifitns geics, nroscience, or psychology. His only published article on homosexualy end up beg </span><a href=" rel>retracted </a><span>bee of issu wh s methodology. Aardweg’s own article, published by the official journal of the Catholic Medil Associatn, was remarkably outdated and monstrated a lack of awarens of current rearch. Almost half of the rearch ced was 25-90 years old at the time of publitn, and ls than 10% of the ced works were published after 2006. The most recent rearch support of orientatn change ced by Aardweg was </span><a href=" rel>a 2003 study by Robert Spzer</a><span>. That study was cricized for s </span><a href=" rel>methodologil issu</a><span> and later </span><a href=" rel>retracted by s thor, who apologized</a><span> for the harm had ed. Aardweg’s works read like outdated assumptns based on stereotyp, bee that’s what they are.</span></p><p><strong>Patricia Allan</strong><span> is the former print of Exod North Ameri and ordator of Exod Internatnal. </span></p><p><strong>Anthony Anatrella</strong><span> (b. 1941) is a </span><a href=" rel>Catholic prit and reparative therapist who is beg vtigated for sexually abg his clients</a><span>. He has served as a nsultant to the Pontifil Council for the Fay and the Pontifil Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers. He also </span><a href=" rel>participated as a llaborator the Synod of Bishops on the Fay October 2014</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Conrad Baars</strong><span> (1919-1981) was a Catholic reparative therapist. He believed that homosexual behavr "more often than not has s orig a sperate search for the love never received om an affirmg other." His work draws on Nilosi and other reparative therapists and ex-gay advot. In </span><em>I will give them A New Heart</em><span> (2008, eded by Suzanne Baars), Conrad Baars se "the homosexual orientatn or same-sex attractn strictly as a maniftatn or a symptom, rather than as a ndn or state." He discs Emotnal Deprivatn Disorr and wr, " this particular perspective we mt distguish between the totally or aquately affirmed dividual who is always heterosexually oriented on the one hand, and the partially or totally unaffirmed dividual who n be eher heterosexually or homosexually oriented on the other. The reason for claimg that all fully affirmed dividuals are heterosexually oriented is that any of the factors which very early life e the nate predisposn to a heterosexual orientatn to change to a homosexual one are at the same time tractors om or obstacl to full affirmatn." He do remark on the genis of homosexualy: "I want to remark briefly on the not always clear genis of the homosexual orientatn. Whether this orientatn is nstutnally termed -- hormonal, geic, or otherwise -- or the rult of early life environmental fluenc, or both, is, the ntext of the particular perspective prented this paper, of ls importance than the always prent and monly reported associatn between the dividual's homosexual orientatn and a disturbance of his or her sense of worth and inty. In my opn, this disturbance has both a al and effectual relatnship wh the homosexual orientatn and, when treated succsfully, has a cidly beneficial effect on the person's pacy for happs even whout a change sexual orientatn." In his work, he lays out guil for "therapy of unaffirmed homosexual or heterosexual persons."</span></p><p><strong>Ruth Barnhoe</strong><span> (1923-1999) was a reparative therapist. She wr </span><em>Homosexualy: A Symbolil Confn</em><span> (1997) that "thirty percent of male homosexuals who e to psychotherapy for any reason (not jt for help wh their sexual preference) n be nverted to the heterosexual adaptatn." As Bohr puts , she "suggts that homosexual persons nyg that their orientatn is reversible are ristg an awarens that would threaten their placent acceptance of a gay inty."</span></p><p><strong>Gerard Bradley </strong><span>is a Catholic lawyer, Notre Dame law school profsor, and natural law theorist. He promoted ex-gay theori. In 2003, he -eded </span><em>Same-Sex Attractn: A Parent's Gui</em><span> wh Fr. Harvey. The sectn on "science" nsists of says by Satover, Nilosi, and non lawyer Cormac Burke.</span></p><p><strong>Mar Casanova</strong><span> </span><a href=" rel>works wh Livg Waters and promot ex-gay views</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Father Pl Check</strong><span> is former director of Courage Internatnal and current director of the Shre of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He is also on the Board of Reference for the Rtored Hope Network and promoted nversn therapists and ex-gay retreats throughout his time as the director of Courage. A “suggted readg list” (</span><a href=" rel>still available on the Courage webse</a><span>) remends the work of nversn therapists, cludg Fzgibbons, Nilosi, Aardweg, and Comiskey.</span></p><p><strong>Richard Cohen</strong><span> (b. 1952) is a reparative therapist. He was </span><a href=" rel>banned om Exod for disturbg practic</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Andrew Comiskey</strong><span> (b. 1958) is an ex-gay advote and Catholic who leads Dert Stream / Livg Waters Mistri (the anizatn anizatn has had </span><a href=" rel>multiple abe allegatns</a><span>). The anizatn has led workshops for many Catholic dc, cludg the Archdce of Denver and the Archdce of Philalphia. Comiskey c Leanne Payne as a major fluence. In 2011, he nverted to Roman Catholicism and works wh Catholic dc. </span><a href=" rel>He claims to be a “former homosexual” and says he created his mistry “for those seekg to e out of homosexualy.”</a><span> In </span><a href=" rel>an terview wh the </a><em><a href=" rel>New York Tim</a></em><span>, Comiskey fend the ex-gay work of Exod. He said, “For the last 37 years, Exod has been a bright light, arguably the brightt one for those wh same-sex attractn seekg an thentilly Christian hope.” Comiskey is also a </span><a href=" rel>board member for the Rtored Hope Network</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Dr. William Consigl</strong><span> was a Catholic reparative therapist and thor of </span><em>Homosexual No More: Practil Strategi for Christians Overg Homosexualy</em><span> (1991). He practiced what he lled "</span><a href=" rel>Sexual Orientatn Rolutn Therapy</a><span>." </span></p><p><strong>Col Cook</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote who led an ex-gay mistry lled Homosexuals Anonymo. Cook was removed after was unvered that </span><a href=" rel>he had abed his clients</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Michelle Cretella</strong><span> is a reparative therapist. She was on the NARTH Board of Directors and is the Vice Print of the Amerin College of Pediatricians. </span><a href=" rel>She treats homosexualy as an "adaptatn," and reli on Satover, Whehead, Nilosi, Sutton, Aardweg, and other ex-gay advot and nversn therapists</a><span>. The views were promoted Helen Alvare’s </span><em>Catholic Women Speak for Themselv</em><span> (2012).</span></p><p><strong>Francis D’Agosto</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote and Profsor of the Philosophy of Law at the Universy of Rome. In 1997, he opposed legal efforts to no longer view homosexualy as an illns. </span><a href=" rel>He said</a><span>, "The attempt to make law enter by force to the areas rrponds to an illn that a more pervasive legalizatn of their existence n give homosexuals that terr balance om whose lack they so clearly suffer. A law that knows how to react agast the illns is not an sensive or cel law; is simply a law that knows how to rema fahful to the tth of thgs, even and pecially when the mere regnn of that tth impli nsirable ethil and psychologil effort." </span></p><p><strong>Joe Dallas</strong><span> (b. 1954) is an ex-gay unselor who found Genis Counselg, which specializ nversn therapy. He promot orientatn change efforts his 2003 book </span><em><a href=" rel>Dir Conflict</a></em><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Michael Davidson, PhD</strong><span> is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Alan Downg</strong><span> is an </span><a href=" rel>ex-gay advote and life ach</a><span>. He has held men’s support groups New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and has staffed or led over 20 experiential healg trags the Uned Stat and Europe for Mankd Project Internatnal, People Can Change, J.O.N.A.H. and the Internatnal Healg Foundatn. He is also the -creator, wh David Mathon, of People Can Change’s “next-step” healg weekend lled “Journey Beyond.” </span><a href=" rel>Platiffs a lawsu leadg to the closg of JONAH ttified</a><span> that Downg orred them to strip naked and beat pillows reprentg their mothers orr to “cure” them of their same-sex attractns. </span></p><p><strong>Dr. Anthony D</strong><span> is a Roman Catholic psychiatrist </span><a href=" rel>who practic nversn therapy</a><span>. As is mon, D has </span><a href=" rel>blamed his patients for failur to change</a><span> their sexual orientatn: “I was not succsful wh the on I had bee they did not stay long enough. The major factor is whether the patient really wants to heal. The on who want to get better, those are the on [able to change].” D </span><a href=" rel>was a NARTH member</a><span> and is a </span><a href=" rel>member of the board of directors of the </a><em><a href=" rel>Journal of Human Sexualy </a></em><a href=" rel>for ATCSI</a><span>. D </span><a href=" rel>has stated that he supports</a><span> “helpg people wh unwanted same-sex attractn to overe dysfunctnal parentg, early childhood peer problems and sexual trma, to bee heterosexual through psychologil therapy to help them bee thentic people God’s image.”</span></p><p><strong>Jason Evert</strong><span> is a Catholic chasty speaker who has </span><a href=" rel>promoted nversn therapy and ex-gay theori throughout his reer</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>John Fnis</strong><span> is a Catholic philosopher who has promoted ex-gay views. He published </span><em>An Intrsilly Disorred Inclatn</em><span> 2003, which drew on the 1986 CDF letter to say the Church "ref to nsir the person as a 'heterosexual' or a 'homosexual.'" (</span><a href=" rel>Father Pl Check has ma this argument as well</a><span>, even though clearly ntradicts the Catechism, which refers to “homosexual persons.”) Fnis argu, "Very many homosexual persons... marry [someone of the oppose sex] and have children by their spoe." He argu that "the homosexual clatn (= orientatn) , seems, 'om a false tn, om a lack of normal sexual velopment, om hab, om bad example, or om other siar , and is transory or at least not curable.' But... some homosexual persons may be 'fively such bee of some kd of nate stct or a pathologil nstutn judged to be curable.'"</span></p><p><strong>Richard Fzgibbons</strong><span> is a Catholic reparative therapist, Courage speaker, and nsultant for the Holy See’s Congregatn for the Clergy, appoted by Pope Benedict XVI. He had an </span><a href=" rel>ethics plat filed agast him</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Joseph Forlenza</strong><span> was a part of </span><a href=" rel>St. Michael's Instute for the Psychologil Scienc</a><span>, which was led by nversn therapist Philip Mango and promot Exod.</span></p><p><strong>Edward J Furton</strong><span> was edor of Medics & Ethics, which promoted the work of Fzgibbons.</span></p><p><strong>Michael Gasparro, MFT </strong><span>is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI. </span></p><p><strong>Floyd Godey, LPC</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>reparative therapist and director of Fay Strategi and Coachg</a><span>, where he “supervis other therapists who work the field of sexual addictns, reparative therapy and other mental health issu.” He is the thor of the book “Homosexualy: Symptoms and Free Agency” and the dtape program “Healg Homosexualy: Ttimoni of Change.” He is also the founr of “Adventure Manhood” and was a member of the board of directors of People Can Change.</span></p><p><strong>Bce R. Gold</strong><span> a </span><a href=" rel>nversn therapist who has offered</a><span> “healg work on an dividual basis for men alg wh unwanted SSA issu.” He has staffed Journey Into Manhood weekends. He is director of the Collegeville Healg Center Pennsyvania. </span></p><p><strong>Fr. Benedict Grochel</strong><span>, </span><a href=" rel> a 2012 terview wh the Natnal Catholic Register</a><span>, argued that "a lot" of clergy abe s, the (male) child sced the prit, perhaps bee of securi related to their fathers.</span></p><p><strong>Christopher Gross</strong><span> is a Catholic profsor who has promoted ex-gay views and </span><a href=" rel>reli on Fzgibbons for his unrstandg of sexual and genr inty velopment</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Janelle Hallman</strong><span> is a Catholic reparative therapist who leads </span><a href=" rel>Janelle Hallman & Associat</a><span>, a Christian unselg group that specializ “female same-sex attractn.”</span></p><p><strong>Julie H. Haton</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>nversn therapist</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Father John F. Harvey, OSFS</strong><span> (1918-2010) was a Catholic prit and the founr of Courage Internatnal. His theori are ground the work of ex-gay theorists and nversn therapists, cludg Elizabeth Moberly, Leann Payne, Richard Fzgibbons, and Joseph Nilosi. Throughout his time as the lear of Courage, he promoted ex-gay theori and nsistently provid a platform for reparative therapists. </span></p><p><strong>Dr. Lra Hayn </strong><span>is a </span><a href=" rel>retired psychologist</a><span> who has </span><a href=" rel>fend nversn therapy</a><span>, as well as a </span><a href=" rel>General Board Member of the ex-gay anizatn Internatnal Feratn for Theraptic and Counselg Choice</a><span> and a </span><a href=" rel>member of the Sexual Attractn and Inty Commtee for the Catholic Medil Associatn</a><span>. In 2020, she wrote </span><a href=" rel> a Catholic Medil Associatn publitn</a><span>: “There is no reason that therapy to change same-sex or genr disrdant experienc should be any ls safe or effective than any other therapy.”</span></p><p><strong>Adam T Fal, LMFT</strong><span> practic retegrative therapy and works wh the </span><a href=" rel>Retegrative Therapy Associatn</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Mary Rice Hasson</strong><span> is a Catholic who has </span><a href=" rel>fend nversn therapy for trans persons</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Mary Healy</strong><span> is a Catholic speaker who</span><a href=" rel> sists on the abily to be "healed" of homosexualy and other "disorrs"</a><span>. In </span><em>Men and Women are om En</em><span>, she remends </span><em>Homosexualy and Hope</em><span> by the Catholic Medil Associatn which </span><a href=" rel>remends reparative therapy and "treatg" homosexualy</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Geoff Heath, JD</strong><span> is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Dr. John Hever</strong><span> is part of St. Michael's Instute for the Psychologil Scienc, which is led by nversn therapist Philip Mango and remends Exod.</span></p><p><strong>John Hson, LPC</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>nversn therapist</a><span> who “works primarily wh men seekg revery om same sex attractn and related issu.” He was listed as a referred therapist wh Exod. </span></p><p><strong>Stephen Hopks </strong><span>is part of St. Michael's Instute for the Psychologil Scienc, which is led by nversn therapist Philip Mango and remends Exod.</span></p><p><strong>Trent Horn</strong><span> is a staff apologist wh Catholic Answers. He -thored </span><em>Ma This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issu</em><span> (2018) wh Leila Miller. The book ref to e the terms “gay” or “straight” bee, argu, “such termology erroneoly rc one’s inty to one’s clatns, temptatns, or sir. This is a real dimishment, as a person’s </span><em>te</em><span> inty is beloved child of God.” It draws on the work of both Mattson and Harvey. It argu that “parents should not even discs homosexualy wh their younger kids unls there is a ser reason.” It also implicly argu that people same-sex romantic relatnships are “nfed.” When faced wh such relatnships, parents are directed to ask their kids qutns such as, “Could a boy ever be married to a tree or a r?” It remends parents of kids who e out as gay nnect wh Courage, and also promot the work of Joseph Sciambria.</span></p><p><strong>Dr. Pl W. Hz</strong><span> is a medil doctor and rearcher workg pediatrics. Dr. Hz has spoken </span><a href=" rel>agast “transgenrism”</a><span> and </span><a href=" rel> support of nversn therapy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Jefey Keefe, OFM </strong><span>(1926-2016)</span><strong> </strong><span>was a Francisn and longtime llaborator wh Courage who </span><a href=" rel>promoted the view</a><span> that homosexualy om "</span><a href=" rel>some adverse cint or cinc that occur a boy's se [to] unrme his masculy</a><span>." </span></p><p><strong>Peter Kleponis</strong><span> was a nversn therapist who worked wh Fzgibbons at the Instute for Marriage Healg. He </span><a href=" rel>gave nferenc to Courage and participated evaluatg ndidat for the prithood and relig life</a><span>. He had </span><a href=" rel>an ethics plat over nversn therapy</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Timothy Lock </strong><span>is a </span><a href=" rel>Catholic clil psychologist, reparative therapist, and Director of Psychologil Studi for the major semary for the Archdce of New York</a><span>. He is a </span><a href=" rel>Courage speaker</a><span> and board member, </span><a href=" rel>former NARTH member</a><span> (before the group was shut down) and </span><a href=" rel>promoter of ex-gay narrativ</a><span> and </span><a href=" rel>nversn change retreats</a><span>, cludg the Journey Into Manhood retreats where participants would be required to participate group nudy. </span></p><p><strong>Neal Lozano</strong><span> was a Christian who promoted and practiced “liverance ssns,” g "</span><a href=" rel>a strategy, based on his years of experience, for you to overe Satan's fluence your life," cludg stgglg wh homosexualy</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Philip Mango </strong><span>is a </span><a href=" rel>reparative therapist</a><span> who has been promoted by many Catholic anizatns and mistri New York. He was </span><a href=" rel>treated as “the facto tsted Catholic orthodox therapist New York” and remend Journey Into Manhood retreats</a><span>. Both </span><a href=" rel>Rod Dreher</a><span> and </span><a href=" rel>Dawn En</a><span> have wrten about his abive practic. He </span><a href=" rel>has been discipled</a><span> by the New York State Office of the Profsns for disclosg nfintial client rmatn. </span></p><p><strong>David Mathon, M.S., LPC </strong><span>was a </span><a href=" rel>nversn therapist and director of the Center for Genr Wholens</a><span>. He practiced for eight years unr the supervisn of Nilosi. HIs primary foc wh clients is “seekg to dimish unwanted homosexual feelgs and velop a stronger mascule, heterosexual inty and sir.” He was also -creator of the Journey to Manhood weekend. He was once known as the “</span><a href=" rel>godfather of nversn therapy,</a><span>” but he has sce divorced his wife, e out as gay, closed his ex-gay practice, and cid celibacy is “not feasible” for him. His book </span><em>Beg a Whole Man</em><span> has ceased publitn. </span></p><p><strong>Dr. Joseph Mceri</strong><span> is a Catholic medil doctor who is part of St. Michael’s Instute for the Psychologil Scienc, led by Philip Mango and which promot Exod. He </span><a href=" rel>has also served as a bethics advisor to the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the Uned Natns New York</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Cardal Je Meda</strong><span> (1926-2021) was prefect of the Congregatn for Dive Worship om 1996-2002. </span><a href=" rel>He treated homosexualy</a><span> as a fect, "as if one lacked an eye,” and believed homosexualy was like alholism, and uld be overe by "retn." </span></p><p><strong>Alan Medger</strong><span> (1936-2010) was the origal Executive Director of Exod and founr of Regeneratn Mistri.</span></p><p><strong>Monsignor Liv Mela</strong><span> is an Italian theologian </span><a href=" rel>who promot ex-gay views and has relied on the work of Anatrella for his unrstandg of homosexualy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Leila Miller </strong><span>is a Catholic wrer who has worked wh Catholic Answers. She -thored </span><em>Ma This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issu</em><span> (2018) wh Trent Horn. The book ref to e the terms “gay” or “straight” bee, argu, “such termology erroneoly rc one’s inty to one’s clatns, temptatns, or sir. This is a real dimishment, as a person’s </span><em>te</em><span> inty is beloved child of God.” It draws on the work of both Mattson and Harvey. It argu that “parents should not even discs homosexualy wh their younger kids unls there is a ser reason.” It also implicly argu that people same-sex romantic relatnships are “nfed.” When faced wh such relatnships, parents are directed to ask their kids qutns such as, “Could a boy ever be married to a tree or a r?” It remends parents of kids who e out as gay nnect wh Courage, and also promot the work of Joseph Sciambria.</span></p><p><strong>Adam Mihan</strong><span> is a -host of the Catholic Man Show, which has hosted Dan Mattson. He has also </span><a href=" rel>argued that homosexualy is somethg wh the md which wars agast the body</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Elizabeth Moberly</strong><span> (1928-2014) was a neo-Frdian rearcher who </span><a href=" rel>helped velop the ex-gay narrative</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Bobby Man</strong><span> is a Licensed Clil Social Worker who </span><a href=" rel>practic nversn therapy</a><span> and has been volved wh </span><a href=" rel>Journey Into Manhood</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Joseph Nilosi Sr. </strong><span>(1947-2017) was a reparative therapist who is often nsired “the father of nversn therapy.” You n listen to a nversatn I had wh one of his former clients </span><a href=" rel>here</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Joseph Nilosi Jr. </strong><span>is a reparative therapist, the son of Joseph Nilosi Sr., and the founr and director of ATCSI. He has renamed his practice “retegrative therapy.”</span></p><p><strong>Dale O’Leary</strong><span> was a NARTH member who </span><a href=" rel>believ homosexualy n be prevented</a><span> and </span><a href=" rel>fends nversn therapy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Robert Otto</strong><span> is a</span><a href=" rel> nversn therapist</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Ann Plk</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote and founr of the Rtored Hope Network, which replaced Exod after was shut down. </span></p><p><strong>Leanne Payne</strong><span> (1932-2015) was a member of the Evangelil prayer healg movement, and </span><a href=" rel>foced on g prayer healg to heal homosexualy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Baxter Peffer, MS</strong><span> is an </span><a href=" rel>ex-gay unselor</a><span> “specializg men’s issu, cludg unwanted samex attractn, sexual addictn, and the trma of childhood sexual abe.” He has staffed ex-gay retreats and experienc, cludg Journey Into Manhood. </span></p><p><strong>Carolyn Pela, PhD</strong><span> is a reparative therapist who </span><a href=" rel>actively reced participants to unrgo nversn therapy for a 2021 paper</a><span>. She is on the Board of Directors for and former Print of ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>David Pickup, LMFT</strong><span> is </span><a href=" rel>a nversn therapist (practicg unr a rebrand lled “retegrative therapy”)</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>David Prosen</strong><span>, LMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and ex-gay advote who </span><a href=" rel>attribut his change, part, to Aardweg’s self-gui for orientatn change</a><span>. He works wh </span><a href=" rel>The Raphael Remedy</a><span>, where he specializ an umber of areas, cludg “penncy, Adult Children of Alholics, emotnal disorrs, pornography and sex addictn, men's issu, obssive pulsive disorr/scpulosy, genr inty disorrs and genr affirmatn, post-trmatic strs, and unrolved grief issu.” Along wh Allison Ricciardi (the Founr and Print of ), he is the thor of </span><em><a href=" rel>Mom... Dad, I'm Gay: How Should a Catholic Parent Rpond?</a></em><span> The text promot and grounds s unrstandg the work of Fr. John Harvey, NARTH, and Neil Whehead. It clus the poorly-supported claim that “16 year olds sayg they have an SSA or Bi-orientatn are 25 tim more likely to change towards heterosexualy at the age of 17 than those wh a heterosexual orientatn are likely to change towards bi-sexualy or homosexualy.” The “two solid rourc” remend by the book are Courage and NARTH.</span></p><p><strong>David Clark Pn, MS</strong><span>, is the managg edor of the Journal of Human Sexualy, the official publitn of ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Allison Ricciardi</strong><span> is the Founr and Print of , and the Founr and Director of The Raphael Remedy. She is also the -thor, along wh David Prosen, of </span><em><a href=" rel>Mom... Dad, I'm Gay: How Should a Catholic Parent Rpond?</a></em><span> The text promot and grounds s unrstandg the work of Fr. John Harvey, NARTH, and Neil Whehead. It clus the poorly-supported claim that “16 year olds sayg they have an SSA or Bi-orientatn are 25 tim more likely to change towards heterosexualy at the age of 17 than those wh a heterosexual orientatn are likely to change towards bi-sexualy or homosexualy.” The “two solid rourc” remend by the book are Courage and NARTH.</span></p><p><strong>Christopher Rosik, PhD, </strong><span>is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Peter Rugeair</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>reparative therapist, NARTH member, and promoter of ex-gay theori</a><span>. He was also a -thor of the publitn </span><em><a href=" rel>Homosexualy and Hope</a></em><span>, published by the Catholic Medil Associatn 2000, which promoted “cur” for homosexualy and ex-gay theori. </span></p><p><strong>Jefey Satover</strong><span> is a Jewish </span><a href=" rel>reparative therapist</a><span> and longtime speaker for Courage. His 1996 book </span><em>Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth</em><span> discs homosexualy primarly the ntext of beg a ndn that n or should be treated. </span></p><p><strong>Joseph Smbria</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote who has </span><a href=" rel>said that anal sex releas “monic enti” to the world</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Father Mike Schmz</strong><span> is a popular Catholic speaker featured the Bible a Year podst. In his book </span><em>Ma for Love: Same-Sex Attractn and the Catholic Church</em><span> he treats homosexualy as a kd of “wound” one’s sexualy and remends the “self-therapy” gui for orientatn change by Aardweg. </span></p><p><strong>Bob Schuchts</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>Catholic reparative therapist and lear of the John Pl II Healg Center</a><span>. You n listen to a nversatn I had wh one of his former clients </span><a href=" rel>here</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Walter R. Schumm</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote published the Journal of Human Sexualy.</span></p><p><strong>Charl Soris</strong><span> is a reparative therapist and founr and print of NARTH.</span></p><p><strong>Mark E. Stern</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote, NARTH member, and </span><a href=" rel>fenr of nversn therapy</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Sean Stevens</strong><span> is a Catholic reparative therapist who </span><a href=" rel>helps people wh “unwanted same-sex attractns.”</a><span> </span></p><p><strong>Fr. Pl Sulls</strong><span> is a Catholic prit and ex-gay advote who </span><a href=" rel>promot sexual orientatn change efforts</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Phil Sutton</strong><span> is a former print of NARTH and edor of The Journal of Human Sexualy. He</span><a href=" rel> actively reced participants to unrgo nversn therapy for a 2021 paper.</a></p><p><strong>Chad Thompson</strong><span> do not actively promote nversn therapy. However, his work draws on nversn therapists, and he remends his books that men to spend more time around other men naked orr to help heal.</span></p><p><strong>Maria Vals</strong><span> is a reparative therapist who has prented at Courage Conferenc. Her work is </span><a href=" rel>ced by Fr. Harvey</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Dr. Quent van Meter</strong><span> is Print of the Amerin College of Pediatricians and an </span><a href=" rel>ex-gay advote who refers dividuals to nversn therapists</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Robert Vazzo, MFT</strong><span>, is a therapist on the Board of Directors for ATCSI. </span></p><p><strong>Keh Vennum</strong><span>, </span><strong>MD</strong><span>, is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI.</span></p><p><strong>Andrew Visser, MHC</strong><span>, is on the Board of Directors for ATCSI. I have not nfirmed whether he practic reparative therapy. </span></p><p><strong>Dr. Pl Vz</strong><span> is a Catholic ex-gay advote who has endorsed Aardweg’s </span><em>The Battle for Normaly</em><span>. He is also a part of St. Michael’s Instute for the Psychologil Scienc.</span></p><p><strong>Fr. John Waiss </strong><span>is a Catholic prit and ex-gay advote. In his 2011 book </span><em>Born to Love</em><span>, he prents the ex-gay view through a dialogue on the psychology of homosexualy, askg the lbian terlocutor about abe and issu wh her mother. The lbian speaker sists she hasn't been abed, but the prit sists that she has wounds leadg to her attractns that she hasn't regnized (gaslightg). The rourc sectn remends the self-therapy orientatn gui by Aardweg and works by Cohen, Harvey, Bradley, Nilosi, Whehead, and other ex-gay advot.</span></p><p><strong>Donald Welsch </strong><span>is a licensed fay therapist and ordaed mister who operat a Christian unselg center San Diego and </span><a href=" rel>promot nversn therapy</a><span>. He works wh the </span><a href=" rel>Center for Enrichg Relatnships</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Christopher Wt</strong><span> is a Catholic chasty speaker and mentator on the Theology of the Body. His is on the Board for the Rtored Hope Network and has </span><a href=" rel>promoted nversn therapy and ex-gay theori throughout his reer</a><span>. </span></p><p><strong>Ken Williams</strong><span> is </span><a href=" rel>-founr of the Changed Movement</a><span>. He is also -founr of Equipped to Love and works wh Moral Revolutn. </span><a href=" rel>He and his wife Tiffany provi (non-licensed) nversn therapy</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Tiffany Williams</strong><span> </span><a href=" rel>provis (non-licensed) nversn therapy.</a><span> </span></p><p><strong>Rsell Willgham</strong><span> is a </span><a href=" rel>Christian mister and Director of Counselg and Curriculum Development at New Creatn Mistri</a><span> Frno, California. He was a regular </span><a href=" rel>workshop prenter at Exod Internatnal</a><span>. He has </span><a href=" rel>publicly fend nversn therapy</a><span> and </span><a href=" rel>opposed nversn therapy bans</a><span>. </span></p><p>Rsell Willgham is executive director of New Creatn Mistri, based Frno, California. He unsels, leads groups, and speaks natnwi on issu related to sexual addictn. He has prented workshops at several annual nferenc of Exod Internatnal, at the Amerin Associatn of Christian Counselors World Conference (2001), and at the AACC Supernference on Sexualy (2002). He is also a participant AACC's vio curriculum on healthy sexualy. He is an ordaed mister wh the Assembli of God Internatnal Fellowship and works unr the supervisn of Dr. Jonathan Olford, PhD of the Lk Care Counselg Center Frno, California.</p><p><strong>Elizabeth Wong</strong><span> is </span><a href=" rel>-founr of the Changed Movement</a><span>.</span></p><p><strong>Rich Wyler</strong><span> was </span><a href=" rel>founr and executive director of People Can Change and a life ach wh Higher Path Life Coachg</a><span>. He is the founr and -creator of the “Journey to Manhood” weekend. He has </span><a href=" rel>worked on mentorg men “out of SSA.</a><span>” </span></p><p><strong>Kim Zember</strong><span> is a Catholic speaker featured by Ascensn Prs. She is also on the </span><a href=" rel>board of directors of Freedom March</a><span>, an ex-gay anizatn which lls for an end to LGBTQ equaly laws and nversn therapy bans. In December 2021, </span><a href=" rel> was reported</a><span> that the lear of Freedom March, Jefey McCall, had spent time seekg out sex wh other men g money om the anizatn. </span></p><p><strong>Giananc Zuanazzi</strong><span> is an ex-gay advote. </span><a href=" rel>He speaks of</a><span> the "narcissistic qualy" of "the homosexual ndn," which "is exprsed the ntual attempts at "self-revery" and searchg for the "better self" or the "missg self" another person. He argu that the homosexual approach is really one of intifitn and posssn. He draws on others to argue that homosexualy between two dividuals volv narcissistic “extensns of themselv” rather than “mutual exchange” and says that “the homosexual syndrome om ‘clgg to the self.’” He says, “homosexualy should not be regard as an illns per se, sce is not a ‘procs’ that overtak the subject at a given moment his history, subvertg his equilibrium, but an abnormal variant of sexual orientatn (a nrosis however n plite homosexualy, whenever the latter is experienced a nflictual way or has pulsive featur). He draws on Aardweg, “who terprets homosexualy as a nrosis and attribut s orig to an ferry plex of the Adlerian type, has provid many enuragg data. From my clil experience, the sure velopment of a heterosexual impulse is rather rare te homosexualy, but occurs more equently the weak and nrotic forms. The specialist's terventn is certaly sirable for adolcents who show signs of anxiety and do not know how properly to evaluate their ndn, but the subject has to be willg to meet and be open to talkg about . It will then be possible to inty the type of homosexualy (or even le out), to terme the prence of nrotic elements and to ci, if need be, the begng of psychotherapy." He also argu, "If the change of sexual orientatn is unsuccsful, both the lapse to promiscuy, as a cure for lonels, and reprsn wh the rultg ambigui of behavur mt be avoid." </span></p><div><hr /></div><p><span>The above list is not exhstive. 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Another name which should go on the list is that of Francis MacNutt (1925-2020), a former Catholic prit. He was a member of the Domin orr, which he left to get married. He wrote a number of books on Charismatic healg, cludg Homosexualy: Can It Be Healed? 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If a Catholic giv you a book on LGBTQ+ qutns, you n check this list to see if the thor promot ex-gay theori and nversn therapy.

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EX GAY BOOKS

Books shelved as ex-gay: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Inty, Fah, and Fay by Garrard Conley, Ex-Gay Rearch: Analyzg the Spzer Study And Its Rela... * ex gay books *

Natnally known activist Wayne Ben spent four years examg the phenomenon of ex-gay mistri and reparative therapiterviewg lears, attendg nferenc, and visg mistri unrver as he accumulated hundreds of hours of rearch. The origal ntent and novel material the book clus: a first-ever prehensive history of the ex-gay mistri and reparative therapy the si story of the night the thor photographed ex-gay poster boy John Plk si a gay bar the thor's disvery that Anne Plk lied about beg a lbian and has admted to havg a strong attractn to men BEFORE she beme ex-gay prevly undisclosed bizarre techniqu ed by the ex-gay mistri and reparative therapists the thor's exclive -pth terviews wh leadg ex-gay learsthey disclose their ept secrets, hidn sir, and te motivatns an extraordary new study that shows that most ex-gay lears have suffered om substance abe or severe emotnal problemswhile many ex-gay lears claim they were unhappy beg gay, this report helps prove that their dissatisfactns me not om their homosexualy, but om poor life choic and irrponsible behavr new revelatns that one of the natn's leadg reparative therapists hailed om a secretive cult that was sndalized for practicg nu therapyFrom the thor: Through my extensive experience, I have learned that the extraordary claims ma by the ex-gay groups are whout mer and the efficy of their programs is dub at bt and harmful at worst... Anythg but Straight: Unmaskg the Sndals and Li Behd the Ex-Gay Myth is an sential read for activists on both sis of the ex-gay fence, fay members of gays and lbians, Gay, Bisexual, Lbian, and Transgenr church members, psychiatric and social science profsnals, and anyone who has alt wh g out issu.

ANYTHG BUT STRAIGHT: UNMASKG THE SNDALS AND LI BEHD THE EX-GAY MYTH 1ST EDN

Anythg but Straight: Unmaskg the Sndals and Li Behd the Ex-Gay Myth: 9781560234463: Ben, Wayne: Books * ex gay books *

And while you n always zy up on the uch and prs play on a movie about queer love, the LGBTQ books will take thgs one step of the classics, bt-sellers and new releas on this list put gay characters at the heart of the story — or at the very least, are wrten by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Your refully executed rearch mands a substantial and credible reexamatn of current, polilly driven, polilly rrect dogma that homosexual orientatn is immutable and that the theraptic addrs thereof threatens patient well-beg. D., Associate Profsor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy, Grove Cy College, thor of the Sexual Inty Therapy Framework, and producer of I Do Exist)"Rearch the ntroversial area of homosexualy is ght wh iology and plagued by a arth of science.

EX-GAYS?: A LONGUDAL STUDY OF RELIGLY MEDIATED CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Here are the bt LGBTQ books wh gay characters or by thors who intify as LGBTQ+. Fd romance, spirg nonfictn and YA reads for adults and teens. * ex gay books *

It is the kd of scientific rearch I had md when the mid-1970s I troduced my succsful rolutn the APA Council of Reprentativ that homosexualy is not a disease, but a plex nstellatn of factors that requir scientific vtigatn to further our unrstandg of s etlogy, s many parameters and s subjectivy to change. D., Former Print, Amerin Psychologil Associatn; Distguished Profsor, Universy of Nevada, Reno; Print, Cummgs Foundatn for Behavral Health)"Profsors Jon and Yarhoe provi a well-signed, nceptually and philosophilly sophistited longudal study of terventn efforts aimed at changg homosexual orientatn.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

Ex-Gays?: A Longudal Study of Religly Mediated Change Sexual Orientatn [Jon, Stanton L., Yarhoe, Mark A.] on *FREE* shippg on qualifyg offers. Ex-Gays?: A Longudal Study of Religly Mediated Change Sexual Orientatn * ex gay books *

Yarhoe has published over eighty peer-reviewed journal articl and book chapters and is thor or thor of several books, cludg Unrstandg Genr Dysphoria, Morn Psychopathologi, Unrstandg Sexual Inty, Sexualy and Sex Therapy, and Homosexualy and the Christian.

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. 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.

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

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? * ex gay books *

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.

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. 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.

WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?

As a young gay man, Michael Glatze seemed very happy wh who he was. Then he changed his md. * ex gay books *

He also had a key posn wh Foc on the Fay, where he beme a well-known media figure ttifyg to his mment to heterosexual fay life and the tradnal, Biblil unrstandg of sexualy, which holds that a gay inty is a false nstct, not part of our human sign.

But now, all that life has a reparative therapist who has worked wh thoands of homosexually oriented men seekg change, I believe I am a unique posn to speculate on the recent, John’s story is a utnary tale about ex-gay celebry.

I will, however, speak of psychologil patterns I have seen other SSA (same-sex attracted) men who have gone om “ex-gay” back to “gay” their many SSA men, the ept problem they mt wrtle wh is not sexual inty, but re inty.

WHEN AN EX-GAY MAN RETURNS TO A GAY LIFTYLE

Followg the removal of books by a Catholic psychologist amid LGBT activist prsure, Amazon has removed the works of other thors who once lived and intified as gay. * ex gay books *

This perdic disillnment leav behd vastated dividuals who have vted eply the person; John’s se, Anne, his wife of 20 gay muny wants to ame chang om ex-gay back to gay as proof that people who experience SSA were simply signed and created for homosexualy, but we would be ceived if we believed this simplistic re inty is the foundatnal problem, we spect a breach the primary attachment wh the mother.

From my clil experience, there is a particular kd of client who, although he is eply dissatisfied wh gay life and do succeed velopg good heterosexual functng, will, over time, stggle to mter the self-disciple and matury to put a hard day’s work, e home to wife and fay, help the children wh the homework, have dner and settle down to a good nversatn wh his wife, and go to bed. ” Unrneath the boredom and rtlsns remas this ep, chronic ’s not jt about needg to fd a partner of a different genr; ’s about gettg attentn, flirtg, beg ma to feel special, distractg onelf om one’s chronic dissatisfactn wh life through parti and other high-animatn activi, such as the gay muny offers on s well-known, dg-saturated party circus. Nohels, we did nclu that aspects of the documentary would be stantly regnizable by and disturbg to former clients of ex-gay mistri bee the film pulled so readily on var theori of what homosexualy, and some terviewe claimed that they were no longer gay.

Ex-gay narrativ equently nta many, if not all, of the followg elements: theorizg var  of homosexualy, g qutnable statistics and studi employg flty methodologi to argue for orientatn change, emphasizg promiscuy and other risky behavrs as nstuent parts of “the gay liftyle, ” heavily referencg 7 passag of Scripture that speak to same-sex sexual activy, assertg that God created all people wh the pacy for heterosexual relatnships, and suggtg that ’s possible for someone to go om gay to straight. 1Adam Sass Surrenr Your Sons1Adam Sass Surrenr Your SonsNow 29% Off'Lost' meets 'Boy Erased' Adam Sass' pellg YA but about Connor Major, a gay teenager who out to his sgle mother and ends up beg forcibly sent to a nversn therapy facily on a remote island.

MY EX-GAY FRIEND

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"Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New YorkLast Call ptur a time New York Cy—the late '80s and early '90s—that was extremely unsafe for gay men. This was not only due to the ongog AIDS crisis, but also bee a serial killer was preyg on the patrons of gay bars; somethg that went unrreported by the media, and, as thor Elon Green argu, neglected by law enforcement.

"Amazon's cisn is no surprise sce today's culture is vg to the goals of the LGBTQ polil movement, which have always clud the silencg [of] any disapproval of homosexualy, " Dallas said an email to The Christian Post Monday. After a long stggle wh unwanted homosexualy that fally led to emotnal and spirual healg, Richard Cohen earned a master’s psychology om Antch Universy and has been unselg dividuals and fai and stctg groups for more than a .

WHY WE DON’T REVIEW EX-GAY BOOKS

It is based on rearch iated when the thor met a heterosexual married man named Noel Mosen 1987 who told her that he had prevly been a promiscuo gay man for more than 20 years, 10 of them as a gay polil activist. Ronald Bayer prents the five se study of how the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Board of Tste 1973 removed homosexualy om s official Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of mental diseas, after years of hostile and disptive lobbyg tactics of gay rights monstrators.

Twelve experts — scientists, psychologists, philosophers and lawyers — vtigate the of homosexualy, the moraly of homosexual acts, and the appropriate social and polil rponse to the effort to legimize homosexualy. Goldberg’s wily acclaimed book, Light the Closet: Torah, Homosexualy, and the Power to Change, Los Angel: Red Heifer Prs, 2nd prtg, 2009 is the only one of s kd that uniquely and passnately synthized Torah prciple wh transformatnal healg procs. Bchemistry and his journalist wife exame the rearch lerature on geic of homosexualy and fd that, takg a mastream scientific posn, the scientific evince do not support the popular ia that homosexualy is geic, trsic or fixed.

Replete wh personal stori om parents, children and ex-homosexual stgglers, A Parent’s Gui to Preventg Homosexualy offers passn and hope for all those parents who seek to lay a foundatn for a healthy heterosexual inty their children. The thor lays out the personaly characteristics and velopment fluenc most mon among homosexual men seekg to change, such as “fensive tachment” om fathers, peers and malens generally, and prents psychotheraptic mols for revery.

AMAZON PULLS BOOKS BY THORS WHO ONCE INTIFIED AS GAY, LBIAN

This book is the send of two volum based on papers livered at a nference sponsored by the Amerin Public Philosophy Instute at Geetown Universy June 1997 to exame how the Amerin people should unrstand and rpond to the public issue of homosexualy. Neher n "You Don't Have to Be Gay, " which scrib thor Jeff Konrad's stggle to overe his unwanted same-sex "Baby Be-Bop, " the g-out story of a gay teen, which clus scriptns of his sexual enunters bathroom stalls wh men he never talks to, mak the do "Love & Sex: Ten Stori of Tth, " which scrib a gay teen's relatnship wh his tutor wh excerpts like: "Matt had one leg locked between me, so that his d—- was smashed between his stomach and my thigh. "Ask why the "ex-gay" books aren't makg the cut, and the answers say the books simply haven't been reviewed by the proper stutns; others say the ia the books promote — that homosexualy is a treatable ndn — n be psychologilly damagg to Executive Director Rega Griggs says the group jt wants anyone stgglg wh unwanted same sex attractns to know all of the optns available to them — but she says most schools won't even accept "ex-gay" materials ee of charge.

"Click here to see some of the banned said she'd hoped the Amerin Library Associatn uld help, so she asked the anizatn to issue a statement durg Banned Books Week earlier this month urgg schools not to ban "ex-gay" books. "We would have appreciated even a statement om the ALA's director of tellectual eedom, Debra Caldwell-Stone, that ex-gay books are clud their diversy policy — stead, she said that the policy 'speaks for self, '" Griggs om to Caldwell-Stone were directed to Amerin Library Associatn Media Relatns Manager Macey Moral, who asked for more rmatn about PFOX's allegatns and then failed to return follow-up e-mails and phone ALA's annual Banned Books Week is tend to draw attentn to "the harms of censorship by spotlightg actual or attempted banngs of books across the Uned Stat, " acrdg to the associatn's Web event also strs the importance of the associatn's Library Bill of Rights, which stat:— Librari should provi materials and rmatn prentg all pots of view on current and historil issu. — Librari should operate wh all persons and groups ncerned wh ristg abridgment of ee exprsn and ee accs to says the chairman of the ALA's Supervisors' Sectn of the Amerin Associatn of School Librarians ignored that policy when PFOX tried donatg "ex-gay" books to her school district Virgia.

EXGAY CALLG

Fairfax and Montgomery unty schools did not rpond to 's requt for ment, but Griggs said they also rejected the donatn of 'ex-gay' books, while a search of the Fairfax onle library talogue shows too has "Love & Sex" and "Baby B-Bop" s high school Legal, which reprented Metro DC Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays a lawsu over Montgomery County's excln of "ex-gay" rmatn s sexual orientatn health curriculum, says the schools rerve the right to make the choic. "All of the leadg medil, theraptic, psychiatric and social work anizatns have a fair unanimy here about claims relatg to the so-lled ex-gay movement or so-lled reparative therapy where the central ia is that the groups would like to try to change people's sexual orientatn or genr inty, and the nsens is that 's unnecsary and damagg and n be severely harmful to people, " she here to see the Amerin Medil Associatn's policy regardg sexual here to see the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics clil report on Sexual Orientatn and here to see Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Posn Statement on Therapi Foced on Attempts to Change Sexual matas that the ments om the anizatns are not based fact or science. Addnally, the Inter is rife wh stori of LGBTQ people who have reported sufferg psychologil harm as a rult of participatg the programs and proment Christians are quietly tryg to rurrect ex-gay Christiany, and the new rnatn is hipper and perhaps more evolved.

Yet beneath the smetic tweaks ss the same msage that has damaged many liv over many s: If you’re a Christian wh same-sex attractns, change is both possible and first wave of Amerin ex-gay Christiany the 1970s alced around mistri and anizatns specifilly voted to the e. But the current wave is far more centralized, beg led by pennt thors and personali who are embedd the nservative Christian world rather than segregated to an issue-specific views differ ever so slightly om the next while orbg tightly to siar them, such as the possibily of “former homosexuals” havg a healthy heterosexual marriage, differentiatg between one’s behavr and inty, and a ubiquo, if obligatory, nod to church’ historil failur to love people who intify as of the movement’s most articulate lears is Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former women’s studi profsor at Syrace Universy who says she “adopted a lbian inty” her 20s as a rult of beg fluenced by femist philosophy.

For Butterfield, homosexualy is not an inty that scrib who a person is but, rather, a sful actn that a person do — but n stop preach her gospel of change through her popular books, speech at Christian nferenc and church, and is the unmistakable msage of the life she now liv. ”When I prsed her, the thor of “Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been” said that she has never met anyone who has experienced a plete change sexual orientatn, but she add that she has read stori about people who have.

GAY REVERSAL ADVOT SAY SCHOOL LIBRARI BANNG THEIR 'EX-GAY' BOOKS

At least not claims that his parents’ divorce and an experience of sexual asslt created same-sex sir him at a young age, but he preach that J is helpg him overe his homosexual I spoke to him, he said he “had to make a choice of my fah over my feelgs. Many Amerins believed at the time that homosexualy was a mere matter of choice, and worse, a s that would endanger one’s eternal their mds, same-sex-attracted Christians who wanted to live a life of hols uld supprs their sexual sir through some mixture of prayer, spirual disciple and therapy.

THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.

Mistri and anizatns rose up and preached the ex-gay eventually the movement was plagued by shiftg public opn, and ex-gay Christiany’s most proment lears began repudiatg the movement and tellg the tth about s failur. ” Acrdg to the New York Tim, Dert Stream Mistri end s affiliatn wh Exod ‘due to lear Alan Chambers’s appeasement of practicg homosexuals who claim to be Christian” as well as his qutng of the realy of ‘sexual orientatn change. It clus the poorly-supported claim that “16 year olds sayg they have an SSA or Bi-orientatn are 25 tim more likely to change towards heterosexualy at the age of 17 than those wh a heterosexual orientatn are likely to change towards bi-sexualy or homosexualy.

” The “two solid rourc” remend by the book are Courage and Retegrative Therapy Associatn promot reparative therapy and enurag s practice among licensed Rtored Hope Network is the ex-gay anizatn that took the place of Exod Internatnal after was shut Ruth Instute is a Louisiana-based Catholic anizatn that seeks to bat the “sexual revolutn. " He discs Emotnal Deprivatn Disorr and wr, " this particular perspective we mt distguish between the totally or aquately affirmed dividual who is always heterosexually oriented on the one hand, and the partially or totally unaffirmed dividual who n be eher heterosexually or homosexually oriented on the other. The reason for claimg that all fully affirmed dividuals are heterosexually oriented is that any of the factors which very early life e the nate predisposn to a heterosexual orientatn to change to a homosexual one are at the same time tractors om or obstacl to full affirmatn.

Whether this orientatn is nstutnally termed -- hormonal, geic, or otherwise -- or the rult of early life environmental fluenc, or both, is, the ntext of the particular perspective prented this paper, of ls importance than the always prent and monly reported associatn between the dividual's homosexual orientatn and a disturbance of his or her sense of worth and inty.

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In my opn, this disturbance has both a al and effectual relatnship wh the homosexual orientatn and, when treated succsfully, has a cidly beneficial effect on the person's pacy for happs even whout a change sexual orientatn. The sectn on "science" nsists of says by Satover, Nilosi, and non lawyer Cormac Casanova works wh Livg Waters and promot ex-gay Pl Check is former director of Courage Internatnal and current director of the Shre of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Lra Hayn is a retired psychologist who has fend nversn therapy, as well as a General Board Member of the ex-gay anizatn Internatnal Feratn for Theraptic and Counselg Choice and a member of the Sexual Attractn and Inty Commtee for the Catholic Medil Associatn.

He is a Courage speaker and board member, former NARTH member (before the group was shut down) and promoter of ex-gay narrativ and nversn change retreats, cludg the Journey Into Manhood retreats where participants would be required to participate group nudy.

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