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Contents:
- ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE WNS A 'PASTOR' TRYG TO 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY'?
- 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
- ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
- PRAY AWAY THE GAY?
- NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
- WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
- PASTOR ‘PRAYS THE GAY AWAY’ ON ‘WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”
‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
When Amerin documentarian Kriste Stolakis set out to make her but feature film, she knew she wanted to she a light on the “ex-gay” movement. * pray away the gay what would you do if *
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.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE WNS A 'PASTOR' TRYG TO 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY'?
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.
5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
A popular realy televisn show recently tted people’s reactns to seeg an evangelil pastor teractg wh a teenage boy hop of “prayg the gay” out of him. In this segment, which tak place at an Atlanta rtrant, an actor playg a young gay man is told by two other actors playg his parents that a pastor is g ― and eventually shows up ― to “pray away the gay.
‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
“And when your pastor don’t speak about homosexualy or quot you parts of the Bible that tell you that ’s wrong, we really, really believe this and further creas low self-teem. "Wh my first weeks therapy, I was told every other gay person on Earth had been executed....
PRAY AWAY THE GAY?
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NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
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WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
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PASTOR ‘PRAYS THE GAY AWAY’ ON ‘WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”
" He embraced a sparkly, Freddy Mercury-stage-show-liftyle bee he saw a bunch of out-and-proud homosexuals and thought that was how was done.