Former 'Ex-Gay' Lears Denounce 'Conversn Therapy' In A New Documentary : NPR

Contents:

• GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• REVOICE AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
• GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
• TOPIC: WHAT TO MAKE OF THE “GAY CHRISTIAN” MOVEMENT THE EVANGELIL CHURCH?
• THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.

GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH

Phed to the foreont by a printial ont nner —and a “gotcha” dre of homosexuals news rooms— change om homosexualy or sexual “reorientatn” has bee a recurrg topic of discsn the media, polics and relign. Senr edor Marc Yoars said that therapy and unselg for homosexuals who want to change is a small part of what the church is dog to brg rolutn to sexually broken men and women. The latt to weigh on the issue is proment Southern Baptist theologian Albert Mohler who says that change om homosexualy is not impossible when Christ is the mix.

Mohler is weighg on a bate that was reigned after a pro-gay group, Tth Ws Outs, acced Bachmann & Associat of showg “great antipathy towards gay and lbian people” by practicg reparative therapy. The Christian unselg center, owned by Michele and Marc Bachmann, was recently vised by TWO’s John Becker who posed as a Christian wantg to get rid of his homosexualy.

We’ve also advised that if homosexuals do not want to change, the solutn is simple: don’t go “unrver” wh a false pretense to a private Christian unselg clic which will tell you that you n change. Mohler’s powerful article “Reparative Therapy, homosexualy and the Gospel of J Christ” for a full explanatn of how orientatn change is a kgdom issue, not a soc-polil one. By ntrast, the homosexual posn most often parroted the media (and apostate church) is illogil, driven by emotnalism and spe and a product of polil and social manipulatn.

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

But spe enormo gas ma by homosexuals, numero men and women still want out of a liftyle that is gradg and stctive emotnally, spirually, sexually and relatnally. This new tactic by gay activists tend for the “expose” and subsequent media airplay to hold up the possibily of change up for public mockery.

It's a movement that's born out of a larger culture of homophobia and transphobia that still persists the majory of Christian church today. Interview highlights clu extend web-only answers and have been eded for length and clary: Interview Highlights Thomas on how he joed the "ex-gay" movement and Exod Internatnal I was out of the closet the '80s. They also had a group for the gays, and unrneath all of that olns there was this toxic theology that said that you need to overe homosexualy.

REVOICE AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT

Stolakis on what the ex-gay and nversn therapy movement looks like today Conversn therapy and the ex-LGBTQ movement has always been practiced lolly. It's bee very lennial-driven bee there are younger people who've grown up homophobic and transphobic environments who are ready and willg to take the place of people like Randy. A recent Gallup poll reported that 1989 13% of Amerins believed that beg gay or lbian was by nature; by 1996 that creased to 31%, by 2001 to 40%, and by 2018, 50%.

GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT

Brad Harper, profsor of theology and relig history at the evangelil Multnomah Universy Portland, OR, said, “Millennials are lookg at the issue of gay marriage, and more and more they are sayg, ‘OK, we know the Bible talks about this, but we jt don’t see this as an sential of the fah. Revoice’s purpose is “Supportg, enuragg, and empowerg gay, lbian, same-sex-attracted, and other LGBT Christians so they n flourish while observg the historic, Christian doctre of marriage and sexualy. The nference’s objectiv are to reem cultural exprsns, create a safe space for atten, rethk relatnships light of the gospel, and to help one another flourish as “gay Christians.

Four characteristics mark Revoice: (1) There are SSA/LGBTQIA+ dividuals who are also Christians; (2) gay sex is always wrong; (3) the Bible says that marriage should only be between a man and a woman; and (4) bee of their mment to “biblil marriage, ” gay Christians should be celibate. Belg promot the ncept of spirual iendship (gays mted to celibacy), notg that while marriag last until ath, venant iendships are more bdg.

TOPIC: WHAT TO MAKE OF THE “GAY CHRISTIAN” MOVEMENT THE EVANGELIL CHURCH?

Gay Christian men aren’t effemate bee they won’t marry women; rather, they don’t marry bee they regnize their abily to love a wife as Christ lov the church.

E the same pronouns transgenrs e to refer to themselv); (3) do not change your theology—beg gospel-centered mt be the ma thg, not the LGBT issue; (4) do not be hypocril by attackg gay ss but not “straight” ss; (5) be eager to apologize (“we the church have sned agast LGBT people”); and (6) take risks standg up for SSA/LGBT people. Sharg experienc creat a personal nnectn wh people, makg the stggl gay Christians face “real, ” movg the hearers toward acceptance and advocy. Greg Johnson serv as pastor of Memorial Prbyterian Church, the host of the Revoice nference (he recently “me out” as gay a Christiany Today post10).

God unequivolly and every day and age has nmned homosexualy as s, never makg a difference between “beg” homosexual and the act (Gen 18:20-21; 19:4-5, 24-25; Rom 1:18-32; 1 Cor 6:9-11; 1 Tim 1:10; 2 Pet 2:6-10; Ju 6-7; Rev 21:8; 22:15).

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

Believg that only the homosexual act is sful rejects God’s tth that sfulns is attributed to one’s state/ disposn (Jer 17:9), thoughts (Gen 6:5; Matt 5:27-28; Acts 8:22), feelgs, affectns, and sir (Col 3:8).

If the tegory of gay Christiany is biblil, then such mt also be extend to all other ss of the s nature, no matter how seemgly abhorrent and abomable.

Their reason for g “gay” as opposed to “homosexual” is the latter is said to refer to the sexual act, whereas the former allegedly do not have to clu that.