The ex-gay Christiany movement is makg a quiet eback. The effects on LGBTQ youth uld be vastatg. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
• MATT MOORE, 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST CGHT ON GRDR, OW AN APOLOGY TO LGBT YOUTH
• “EX-GAY” CHRISTIAN BLOGGER MATT MOORE HAS HIS GRDR PROFILE OUTED
• THE STORY OF THE ‘EX-GAY’ BLOGGER EXPOSED ON GRDR ISN’T FUNNY, ’S JT HEARTBREAKG
• WHY I OUTED “EX-GAY” MATT MOORE
• 'EX-GAY' CHRISTIAN POST BLOGGER MATT MOORE ADMS G GRDR APP 'HASN'T CHANGED HIS ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL VIEWS'
• TTIMONY OF BLOGGER RCUED FROM GAY LIFTYLE INSPIR OTHERS

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

Matt Moore, a Christian Post blogger whose blog "My Story: Homosexualy, Dnkenns, Grace and Remptn" went viral last year, was "outed" for jog Grdr, a popular gay social workg app, recently. Gawker first ran an article on Moore on Tuday morng that soon led to stori on Huffgton Post and other media s, all of them shg to pot out how the man who left the active homosexual liftyle after g to fah J Christ had fallen to temptatn. This is somethg that mt Why did you take your origal ttimony, "My Story: Homosexualy, Dnkenns, Grace and Remptn" on CP down?

MATT MOORE, 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST CGHT ON GRDR, OW AN APOLOGY TO LGBT YOUTH

When I saw the Huffgton Post lked directly to that blog, I leted How has the gay muny treated you sce Gawker and Huffgton Post "outed" you?

They plead wh me to embrace my homosexual feelgs as a gift om God, and assure me that God will love me no ls if I live my life as a gay man and get a gay relatnship. There have also been some atheists and gay persons who have emailed me apologizg on behalf of the liberal media for prtg such harsh material about me.

“EX-GAY” CHRISTIAN BLOGGER MATT MOORE HAS HIS GRDR PROFILE OUTED

He did not know that I was open wh the fact that I still experience same-sex attractn on a daily basis, somethg that I've been extremely public The person who outed you, Znia Jon, wr on a blog post: "So-lled 'ex-gays' publicly promote the notn that LGBT people are sng agast a god who will torture them eternally if they fail to supprs and ny their te nature. We are saved not bee of anythg we have or haven't done, but bee of what Christ has done for Why do you go back to your Christian fah when you are unr so much prsure om the gay muny to embrace your homosexualy?

THE STORY OF THE ‘EX-GAY’ BLOGGER EXPOSED ON GRDR ISN’T FUNNY, ’S JT HEARTBREAKG

Let's say that two weeks, I have left the fah and have embraced homosexualy aga. He is more valuable, fortg and satisfyg than homosexual behavr, and I n say that om experience. The world will tell you to embrace your homosexual sir bee 'll make you happy  this life.

For two s, McKrae Game was a top-tier figure among ex-gay Christians and a leadg advote for nversn therapy, a unselg practice wh the goal of helpg LGBTQ people supprs their homosexualy and bee “straight.

WHY I OUTED “EX-GAY” MATT MOORE

” But Game, 51, now disavows the movement and acknowledg he has been gay all told the Post and Courier that nversn therapy proved to be trimental, a “lie” and “false advertisg. ”Game’s announcement as the ex-gay Christiany movement is stgglg to survive.

'EX-GAY' CHRISTIAN POST BLOGGER MATT MOORE ADMS G GRDR APP 'HASN'T CHANGED HIS ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL VIEWS'

The most proment ex-gay anizatns have shnk or shuttered; lears have fected; and many church now fear that beg associated wh such wily discreded techniqu will st them as unwelg or bigoted. 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.

”When I spoke wh her, I asked if she nsirs herself “ex-gay, ” and she said she do not e that label to scribe herself but then proceed to scribe how she was once, but is no longer, a lbian. When I asked if she believ nversn therapy, she said she do not and then said is “ part bee heterosexual s is no more sanctified than homosexual s.

TTIMONY OF BLOGGER RCUED FROM GAY LIFTYLE INSPIR OTHERS

”When I poted out the fn of the term “ex-gay, ” she pivoted to talkg about how Christian church have failed to mister to and love LGBTQ people. But then Butterfield add that she disurag the age of the term “gay Christian” and even oppos “Si B” Christians who accept their LGBTQ inty but are mted to celibacy for relig reasons. ”Butterfield avoids the rhetoril triggers of ex-gay Christiany’s earlier eratn.