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Contents:
- DO FOC ON THE FAY PROMOTE “GAY CONVERSN THERAPY”?
- FOC ON THE FAY'S LGBTQ DCENDANTS: EXECUTIVE'S GAY DGHTER SPEAKS OUT
- RPONDG TO TEEN CHILD WHO SAYS HE’S GAY
- ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
- SUPPORT FOR PARENTS OF CHILD WHO SAYS HE’S GAY
- OUT OF THE DARKNS: THREE WAV OF FAY REARCH AND THE EMERGENCE OF FAY THERAPY FOR LBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE
DO FOC ON THE FAY PROMOTE “GAY CONVERSN THERAPY”?
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He challeng rears to nsir how to uphold God’s mand to love Him and our Out of Homosexualy: New Freedom for Men and Women by Bob Davi and Lori RentzelFd answers for what means to be a man or a woman, how your past relat to your prent, how you n form healthy relatnships, and how your healg may prepare you for heterosexual Into Manhood: Rumg the Journey by Alan P. By Sam AllberryThis easy-to-unrstand book offers scriptural tths about marriage, sexualy, and same-sex Into Light: The Gospel, the Homosexual, and the Church by Peter HubbardHubbard enurag the Church to humbly engage those who experience same-sex attractn, drawg them to God’s Kdns by Barry Corey“Disver the Power of a Fotten Christian Virtue”Lovg My (LGBT) Neighbor by Glenn Stanton“Beg Friends Grace and Tth”Msy Grace by Caleb Kaltenbach“How a Pastor Wh Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Whout Sacrificg Convictn”Out of a Far Country by Christopher YuanA Gay Son’s Journey to God.
FOC ON THE FAY'S LGBTQ DCENDANTS: EXECUTIVE'S GAY DGHTER SPEAKS OUT
“Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Gog and How to Turn the Ti”Pursug Sexual Wholens by Andrew Comiskey“How J Heals the Homosexual”Rtorg Sexual Inty: Hope for Women Who Stggle Wh Same-Sex Attractn by Anne PlkPlk left a lbian liftyle after g to Christ. Someone I Love Is Gay by Bob Davi and Ana Worthen (not currently available through Foc on the Fay)Learn to unrstand your emotns and how to rpond to a gay-intified spoe, child, relative, or iend wh the tth about homosexualy—whout beg judgmental. Schmidt“Compassn & Clary the Homosexualy Debate”The Tth Com Out: The Story of My Heart’s Transformatn by Nancy Heche (not currently available through Foc on the Fay)After losg her hband to AIDS and her son a r crash, Heche’s youngt dghter, Anne, beme volved a high-profile lbian relatnship.
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RPONDG TO TEEN CHILD WHO SAYS HE’S GAY
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ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
”Courage Internatnal, apostolate of the Catholic Church misters to those wh same-sex attractn and their loved Stream MistriThis mistry offers Christ-centered help for those who stggle wh sexual and relatnship Global AllianceExod Global Alliance provis remendatns of mistri and other rourc outsi the Uned Instute for Maral HealgRichard Fzgibbons has spent over 30 years helpg people al wh marriage and fay issu, fivens, homosexualy, and genr dysphoria/genr inty Seiler“Seiler once had plans to have sex reassignment surgery, change her name to David, and live happily ever after. Rtored Hope NetworkThis aln of mistri reach out to those who stggle wh sexual s, particularly Rogers CommunitnsRogers tells his story of leavg homosexualy and transgenrism, speaks about remptn for broken sexualy, and offers help for pure livg our hyper-sexualized culture.
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SUPPORT FOR PARENTS OF CHILD WHO SAYS HE’S GAY
Yet to anyone payg attentn, ’s clear the anizatn is foced on one specific kd of fay, and stead spends a lot of time, energy and money advotg agast equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people and their fai. And most of isn’t g om a Christian, the time parents spend trag and equippg their children to know God’s Word, to discern the tth, and to rpond nfintly, wsomely and biblilly to cultural prsur is not only cril, ’s on the Fay’s latt Thrivg Valu gui, “How to Talk to Your Children about Homosexualy: A Parent’s Gui, ” helps parents addrs one of the most challengg polil, social, moral and personal topics of our day.
OUT OF THE DARKNS: THREE WAV OF FAY REARCH AND THE EMERGENCE OF FAY THERAPY FOR LBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE
PLEASE NOTE: This rource do not provi rmatn or advice about helpg children or teens who have “e out” and intify as gay or bisexual, assistg those who are stgglg wh genr nfn, or unselg those who were sexually abed and may be qutng their sexual inty. In this article, the abbreviatn LGBT is ed as shorthand for a wi range of inti, sometim wrten as LGBTQQI+, meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, and tersex, wh the + ditg that the list do not leate all possible sexual and genr inti.
A lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty is evably lked to multiple inti: child, parent, spoe and/or partner, siblg, profsnal, employer, employee, ngregant, patient, or if a patient’s LGBT inty is not the primary foc of treatment, s impact on the urse of treatment should not be unrtimated or overlooked. Lendg support to that observatn is the fact that 30% of homels youths are LGBT, most often rultg om beg forced out of their home or feelg a need to n away om home bee their sexual orientatn, genr inty, and/or genr exprsn are not accepted (15) the nsequenc of wispread negative attus toward LGBT dividuals, is not surprisg that they may be unable to acknowledge to themselv, or reveal to others, any homoerotic feelgs, attractns, or fantasi.
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