“Ex-gay” stood by to ttify at Dobson vigil – The Denver Post

Contents:

• 'WILL & GRACE' EX-GAY MISTRY EPISO ANGERED FOC ON THE FAY PUND
• EX-HOMOSEXUAL TTIFI ABOUT EX-GAY MISTRY BEFORE U.S. COMMTEE ON FAH-BASED INIATIV
• WHY GAY IS NOT OK
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• SHOULD I ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
• GAY HALEY FOUND 19 PEOPLE GEIA, MISSISSIPPI AND 14 OTHER STAT

'WILL & GRACE' EX-GAY MISTRY EPISO ANGERED FOC ON THE FAY PUND

Twelve years after a ntroversial "Will & Grace" episo, a bizarre letter of plat om a "former gay man" has emerged. Produced 2000, the episo showed Jack (Sean Hay) jog a gay reparative mistry an effort to sce s "ex-gay" lear Bill (Neil Patrick Harris). After the episo aired, Mike Haley, who is intified as a "former gay man" who was then workg at Foc on the Fay, reportedly penned a letter to "Will & Grace" story edor Jon Knally -- a py of which has sce emerged on the webse "Letters of Note.

" In the letter, Haley requts a meetg wh Knally, notg: "As a former gay man, and now a natnal spokman and expert on homosexualy and youth issu for Foc on the Fay -- one of the untry's largt anizatns who, among other thgs, assists gays and lbians who sire to be heterosexual -- I know first-hand how tratg and paful is to be mocked by those who haven't taken the time to fd out what this procs is all about. I'm specifilly talkg about referenc the show to former homosexuals, and those wrtlg wh their sexual inty, as 'eaks, ' 'self-loathg closet s, ' 'morally wrong' and as members of 'cults.

Tle: 101 Frequently Asked Qutns About HomosexualyBy: Mike HaleyFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pag: 176Vendor: Harvt Hoe PublishersPublitn Date: 2004Dimensns: 8. 101 Compassnate and Scriptural Answers om Foc on the Fay's Mike HaleyAlmost daily we hear news reports that nfirm the acceptance of homosexualy our culture.

EX-HOMOSEXUAL TTIFI ABOUT EX-GAY MISTRY BEFORE U.S. COMMTEE ON FAH-BASED INIATIV

Homosexuals are adoptg children, appearg as characters on televisn programs, takg vatns terg to an exclively gay clientele, and even seekg the right to "marry" their partners. And for many rears, those qutns h close to home as they learn of the homosexualy of a loved one or close are the answers to the most often asked qutns about homosexualy, field by an expert on the a former homosexual himself. Mike Haley is the former manager of the Homosexualy and Genr Issu Department at Foc on the Fay where he now serv as program director for that mistry’s Raisg Highly Capable Kids.

Though not as -pth as a psychologil or medil analysis of the subject might be, this book is fely solid regard to biblil stanc on homosexualy, and the rponse and posn ngregatns should have and take on this very ntemporary matter. Some of the qutns tackle issu that are hotly bated society, such as, "Isn't better for homosexuals to adopt children rather than jt leave the children foster re or orphanag?

WHY GAY IS NOT OK

He pots out that sarstic ments om Christians, such as, "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, " close doors and cut off opportuni to wns to the homosexual muny. Any Christian who wonrs what his or her actns should be alg wh homosexuals should read this book and then spend time prayer and medatn regardg this matter. A group for survivors who went th Exgay Therapy or Ex-Gay Mistry programs which attempt unsuccsfully to change sexual orientatn.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

Tiktocker JEGAYSUS (himself an exgay suvivor) is dog a readth seri of the ex-gay book "101 Qutns About Homosexualy" by Mike Haley. WASHINGTON, Febary 4, 2004 () – On January 23 Mike Haley, a former homosexual and Manager of Genr Issu at Foc on the Fay (Foc), ttified before a ngrsnal submtee addrsg fah-based anizatns. Haley, who lived as a gay activist for 12 years, now ordat Love Won Out nferenc, which prent rmatn on the and preventn of homosexualy and are sponsored by Foc, a non- prof Christian anizatn.

“As the mother of a son the homosexual liftyle, I am pleased to see that ttimony on sexual orientatn om an ex-gay perspective is beg prented to Congrs, ” said Rega Griggs, PFOX Executive Director. The irratnal phobia agast those who have overe unwanted same sex attractns perpetuat misunrstandg and harm agast the ex-gay muny. Genr-affirmg therapy is advoted by the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, a scientific anizatn of medil profsnals who practice sexual reorientatn therapy.

Explaed Griggs, “Other groups sist that parents love their children only on the ndn that parents affirm the child’s homosexual liftyle.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

"Today, Haley says his days as a gay man are his Rotarian gr, blue blazer and stylish haircut, Haley--who is 40 years old but swears he looks 26--uld pass for a Log Cab Republin. In fact, he is married, the father of two sons, and mak a livg spreadg the very belief that ed to raise his is the public face of "Love Won Out" (), the ntroversial Foc on the Fay nference that rolls to Portland next week proclaimg that Christians n "love homosexuals out" of their sexual when Haley's crew to town Saturday, June 21, at Portland's New Hope Communy Church, rival factns will be wag. Lol gay-iendly church will stage a unter-nference tled "Love Wel All" (), Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, at Zn Uned Church of Christ 's love got to do wh ?

He says the nference, which is aimed part at parents of homosexuals, urg them to love, not shun, their gay children while at the same time prayg that they will change.

SHOULD I ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?

Homosexualy is not geic, he says, but a flaw a child's velopment that n be prevented and "realigned" through therapy. But Haley says the APA rolutn was the work of a powerful gay and lbian uc wh the he disagre wh such beliefs, Love Wel All's Dornack showed up at a recent Love Won Out meetg to hear Haley speak. A youth and genr specialist wh Foc on the Fay, he is now active ex-gay youth mistry, leadg semars around the untry.

After speakg to a group of high school senrs about the damage of viewg homosexualy as a normal, alternative liftyle, I opened up for qutns. While I wasn't ready for my Q&A ssn wh the high schoolers, I vowed that I'd learn to prent a biblil view of homosexualy to nonbelievers. They vised a seven-pot sle that placed exclive heterosexualy and exclive homosexualy at oppose pol, wh bisexualy at the midpot.

GAY HALEY FOUND 19 PEOPLE GEIA, MISSISSIPPI AND 14 OTHER STAT

Usg this sle, the rearchers averaged figur supportg their claims that 10 percent of mal between the ag of 16 and 55 were more or ls exclively homosexual for at least three years. Gordon Muir reported that he had found "substantial evince ditg that ls than 5 percent of men and women have had any homosexual ntact their lifetime, and no more than 3 percent of men and nsirably fewer women claim to be bisexual or exclively homosexual. The latt rearch on this area, published this April Science, uld not reproduce the fdgs of a prev study which had tied homosexual behavr to certa geic patterns.

Even if rearchers were to suggt a heredary tie wh homosexualy, as they have wh alholism, the right tack wh this argument is not to ntend that 's false, but that promot life-threateng behavr.