Members of CHANGED and Church Uned who formerly intified as gay or transgenr are lobbyg agast the Equaly Act and a nversn therapy ban.
Contents:
- ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
- EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
- FERAL JUDGE REJECTS HATE GROUP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN ‘EX-GAY’ THERAPY BAN MARYLAND
- THE 'BORN GAY' MYTH IS AD
- TORY ERNMENT OFFICIALS HELD ‘PRODUCTIVE AND RPECTFUL’ MEETG WH ‘EX-GAY’ LEARS
- FORMER "EX-GAY" LEAR WARNS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SO-CALLED "CONVERSN THERAPY"
- DALLAS LGBT ADVOT EYE BAN ON ‘EX-GAY’ THERAPY
- 9 EX-LEARS OF THE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY MOVEMENT APOLOGIZE
‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
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Exod Internatnal, evangelilism’s flagship ex-gay mistry, shut down 2013 after former lear Alan Chambers said had ed pa and harm to too many people and that more than 99 percent of those who’d sought help there hadn’t actually experienced an orientatn change.
While mistri cludg Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay ed to preach that homosexual sire should be elimated, most evangelil church, pastors, and mental health profsnals today emphasize chasty amid sir that might last a lifetime. Even the Nashville Statement, a 14-pot manifto by the plementarian Council of Biblil Manhood and Womanhood, matas that homosexual sire may never change. A group of people om across the untry who formerly intified as gay and transgenr have scend upon Washgton this week to share their stori and lobby agast two proposed LGBTQ-rights group is ma up of 15 members of Church Uned and Changed, two California-based anizatns that seek to provi muny for, and protect the rights of, “formers” — dividuals who formerly intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or bills the group is lobbyg agast are H.
”Jim Domen, founr of Church Uned, intifi as formerly gay. This, he said, is evinced by the fact that gays have achieved clout and succs as scientists, thors and Thoron, an LGBTQ rearcher at Human Rights Watch, lled the assertn of the “formers” unfound and said the bills they’re lobbyg agast are “long overdue.
EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
The hate group behd most legal challeng to LGBTQ rights keeps failg to overturn ex-gay therapy bans urt. * ex gay therapy ban *
Feral judge has thrown out a lawsu challengg Maryland’s ban agast so-lled “ex-gay” reparative therapy, statg that don’t vlate anyone’s eedom of speech or relig eedom.
Ex-gay practner Christopher Doyle sued Maryland wh the help of the Liberty Counsel, the SPLC-signated hate group that regularly mounts legal challeng agast laws protectg LGBTQ people. Adults are ee to pursue ex-gay therapy if they wish.
FERAL JUDGE REJECTS HATE GROUP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN ‘EX-GAY’ THERAPY BAN MARYLAND
Government officials met wh so-lled "ex-gay" nversn therapy lears as nsired proposals to ban the discreded practise * ex gay therapy ban *
That might sound LGBTQ-affirmg, but Doyle is also the thor of The War Agast Psychotherapy, a book that bemoans the gay rights movement’s supposed “doctratn” of medil profsnals to create a “takeover of a new iology of sex and genr, wh vastatg effects on all sectors of our society … [cludg an] unprecented asslt on our personal eedom and relig liberty.
THE 'BORN GAY' MYTH IS AD
Ex-Gay Therapy * ex gay therapy ban *
6% of those who had intified as gay or lbian intified as heterosexual jt six years later. The 'born gay, always gay' myth is ad.
TORY ERNMENT OFFICIALS HELD ‘PRODUCTIVE AND RPECTFUL’ MEETG WH ‘EX-GAY’ LEARS
When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old's parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of Wakefield. * ex gay therapy ban *
"The majory of rponnts that reported beg suicidal stated that was the prospect of beg gay... That led them to thoughts of suici, rather than the stggle of tryg not to be gay... Most of the posters to the ex-ex-gay boards [i.
FORMER "EX-GAY" LEAR WARNS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SO-CALLED "CONVERSN THERAPY"
Those who once nsired themselv ex-gay but no longer do] report currently beg overall good psychologil health. And spe the ser problems wh bias Shidlo and Schroer (2002), which was origally advertised g the headle 'Homophobic Therapi: Documentg the Damage', 61% of participants reported their terventn as beg helpful to some gree.
DALLAS LGBT ADVOT EYE BAN ON ‘EX-GAY’ THERAPY
And let's be clear: this legislatn will only be ed to target ex-gay and ex-trans people.
9 EX-LEARS OF THE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY MOVEMENT APOLOGIZE
It is a mt-stay-gay and mt-stay-trans bill.