Netflix Film ‘Pray Away’ Documents Ab by Gay Conversn Therapy – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.
• CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

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Michael Bsee, a founr of Exod Internatnal, nsired one of the major anizatns that preached that sexual orientatn uld be changed, was both an early promoter and an early harms nversn therapy , and the tactics , aren’t news at this pot, and “Pray Away” is more tertg when foc on how most of s subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual inti spe havg formerly been so public their homophobia. The first thg that Netflix’s Pray Away documentary do is remd viewers that gay nversn therapy is not a thg of the past.

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NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON

It’s shockgly siar to the ttimony given by the lears of the ex-gay movement over thirty years ago, several of whom are featured Pray Away after leavg the movement and formally apologizg to the LGBTQ muny. John Plk, for stance, was the poster child for the “former homosexual” who succsfully nverted to the straight liftyle.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

He appeared wh his wife Anne on the ver of Newsweek magaze 1998, and both of them appeared on talk show after talk show to reunt how both of them were gay, but ma a nsc effort to change. Plk soon joed the board of the Christian anti-homosexualy group known as Exod Internatnal, which was found 1976 and disband 2013.

Bee I was dishont, ed people the dience—people that were stgglg wh homosexualy or had gay feelgs—to feel like, ‘There mt be somethg wrong wh me, bee I’m not like him. '” Plk left Exod 2003, three years after he was photographed gog to a gay bar.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

(Plk’s wife Anne cled to be terviewed for the documentary and ntu to spread anti-gay msagg as the head of a new Christian ex-gay mistry. Her story is particularly tragic—after g out to her mom at 14, she was forced to see a man named Ricky Chelette who ran another relig ex-gay therapy anizatn lled Livg Hope.

NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Rogers fally left the ex-gay movement after bearg wns to an emotnal, televised group therapy ssn 2013, which survivors of the ex-gay movement unload their trma onto Exod print Alan Chambers.

JOHN PLK WAS THE POSTER BOY OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT FOR 25 YEARS. HERE'S WHERE HE IS NOW.

Chambers, too, was so shaken by the stori shared by the “ex-ex-gays” that he and others disband Exod that year, issug a public apology to the LGBTQ muny. You n’t help but wonr if McCall, like the ex-gay lears before him, will ever look back on that phone ll and acknowledge how much damage he likely ed.

CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”

But only after I left my gay inty— exchange for a new inty Christ—did I realize the special rentment Hollywood rerv for nverts like me.

Celebratg Ex-Ex-Gay. The narrative explibly segu to former key lears of Exod Internatnal who have sce e out as ex-ex-gay. Exod was born 1976 at a large nference Anaheim, California, seekg to help homosexuals who wanted to rid themselv of unwanted same-sex attractns through a seri of ad hoc and unscientific theraptic methods.

Attempts to “pray away the gay” all too often fail, leavg stgglg folks not only mad at God or personally srred but, far worse, a state of apostasy. It’s worth notg how this stance reprents ntradictory doublpeak om the LGBTQ movement, which on one hand sists that gay inty is utterly unchangeable, while on the other suggts sexualy and genr are fluid and that radil self-exprsn mands we n change our inti on any given Tuday. As thor Christopher Yuan—who like me was reemed out of a homosexual life—wisely puts : the goal is not heterosexualy, ’s holy sexualy.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Pray Away meanrs through a few more stori of ex-ex-gays, cludg Yvette Cantu, who was a polil operative for the anizatn, and Julie Rodgers, who was eply volved the mistry but now liv as a lbian. Fahful Christians are nsistently portrayed as buffoons while, this particular film, the ex-ex-gays are beans of enlightenment. My plea to those the LGBTQ muny is to realize this before ’s too late—not to “pray away the gay, ” but to pray away your pri and repent.