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Contents:
- CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY
- AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY OM AGNOSTIC GAY MAN PRISON TO EVANGELIL BIBLE PROFSOR
- CURE ME, I'M GAY!
- CHRISTIAN JSEN B, AGE, FAY, EDUTN, GAY, BOOKS, BBC, CHANNEL 4
- HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
- UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY
- DR. PETER CLEMENT GAY, MD
- THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
- THE MISPLACED INTY OF GAY CHRISTIANY
CHANNEL 4'S DR CHRISTIAN ASKS: CURE ME, I'M GAY
Christopher Yuan me out as gay to his Che parents. They gave him an ultimatum: choose or them. He end up fdg fah prison. * dr christian gay *
He asks if is possible to ‘cure’ homosexualy and will boldly unrtake some of the ‘cur’ to see if he n change his sexual preference.
Unrver Doctor: Cure Me, I’m Gay will follow Dr Jsen on his extraordary and sometim shockg journey as he looks at past and prent therapi both the UK and USA that offer to ‘cure’ gay people who are sperate to be straight.
Wh his medil background and as an openly gay man, he’ll be boldly unrtakg some of the ‘cur’ himself and will explore whether really is possible to be ‘cured’ of homosexualy. After weeks of tense therapy will Dr Christian be ‘cured’ and will the ex-gay lears rise to his challenge to take the sexualy lie tector tt? This bold and challengg documentary will ask what the extraordary practic tell about 21st century attus towards homosexualy, medice, psychology and sexual inty.
AN UNLIKELY JOURNEY OM AGNOSTIC GAY MAN PRISON TO EVANGELIL BIBLE PROFSOR
Although only a small mory of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek nversn therapy, the assumptns unrlyg that therapy often fluence the msage many gay Catholics hear the nfsnal and om iends and mentors. * dr christian gay *
" (Courty of Christopher Yuan)Christopher Yuan teach "Theology of Sexualy" at Moody Bible Instute -- but his journey of fah started a prison Yuan me out as gay to his Che parents at 23, they gave him an ultimatum: choose or them. Christopher Yuan speaks around the world about his unlikely journey om an agnostic gay man prison to an evangelil Bible profsor. Aga, to his surprise, he was -wrote his story wh his mother, Angela, the book: “Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God.
CURE ME, I'M GAY!
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MILLENNIALS CREATE BIBLE FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATIONToday, Yuan, a profsor-at-large ntu to teach biblil studi at Moody Bible Instute, where he has tght for over 11 years and speaks at church, lleg, and nferenc around the world on fah and said he don't intify as gay, ex-gay, or even HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"My te inty, " he adds, "is J Christ alone. Tuday 18 March at 5:53pmLast year a patient me to see Embarrassg Bodi' Dr Christian Jsen at his clic and asked to be cured of his homosexualy.
It was followg this shockg vis that Dr Christian, who is openly gay himself, disvered that ntroversial gay-to-straight nversn therapi are still offered both the US and the UK. So, as part of a new documentary, Dr Christian went unrver to vtigate some of the so-lled gay cur, cludg gay rehab and exorcism, and even tted out some himself.
Dr Christian jos to discs the programme: Unrver Doctor: Cure Me, I'm Gay, which is on Channel 4 at 10pm tonight. ” When he returned to the Catholic Church at age 36, his experience wh nversn therapy Pate said his Catholic therapist, like many who attempt to help patients change their sexual orientatn, believed that homosexualy was ed by childhood sexual abe or alienatn om one’s parents: what Mr.
CHRISTIAN JSEN B, AGE, FAY, EDUTN, GAY, BOOKS, BBC, CHANNEL 4
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Catholics will ever seek nversn therapy, the assumptns unrlyg that therapy often fluence the msage many gay Catholics hear at home, the nfsnal and om iends and mentors. Brothers Road scrib self as “a non-prof, multi-fah, ternatnal fellowship primarily of men om bisexual or same-sex-attracted backgrounds who—for our own, eply personal reasons—typilly do not accept or intify wh the label ‘gay’ and prefer stead to explore and addrs unrlyg issu and embrace our thentic masculy.
Pate was quick to note: “I hear a lot of our [gay] siblgs say, ‘I’m a survivor of nversn therapy, ’ and I don’t put myself that tegory. ” Even so, he scribed feelg prsured to accept rctive theori of homosexualy om a therapist who he felt was so eager for Mr. ”Catholic InfluencThe Catholic media personaly Milo Yiannopoulos recently began llg himself “ex-gay” and announced plans to open a “reparative therapy” clic Florida.
Fzgibbons -thored Homosexualy and Hope, a pamphlet published by the Catholic Medil Associatn, which advot theraptic “preventn and treatment” of same-sex attractn. Another Catholic, Joseph Nilosi, who died 2017, was a -founr of the Natnal Associatn for the Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy, a secular group formed 1992 that is now lled the Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry. Nilosi said of young people experiencg same-sex attractn: “So when a 15-year-old boy go to a prit and says, ‘Father, I have the feelgs, I have the temptatns, ’ that prit should say, ‘You have a choice; if you don’t want to be gay, there are thgs that you n do.
HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
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Men and women leave behd not only the homosexual liftyle but also the very feelgs of same-sex attractn. Others simply found that therapy did not make them straight—and neher did offer guidance livg as a Catholic who is gay.
” A group prottg the nference hung a banner on archdcan property that featured a quote attributed to the Dert Stream/Livg Waters founr, Andrew Comiskey, and that read part, “There is no such thg as a ‘gay’ is a popular myth. The people I terviewed said Catholic stutns may not wily promote nversn therapy, but the msag gay believers hear Catholic spac help promote the ia that nversn is possible.
Many gay Catholics have heard, over and over, that nobody is “born gay”; that homosexualy is typilly ed by trma; that beg gay is a purely negative experience om which they have nothg to learn, and om which the broar church has nothg to learn. ”In rearchg this story, I remembered a gay Catholic iend scribg a girl he liked as “my last hope”—his last chance at heterosexualy. They have alt wh parents’ guilt over their orientatn and their fear that beg gay separat them om God.
UNRVER DOCTOR: CURE ME, I'M GAY
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The specific theori and practic of nversn therapy draw on a ep well of silence and shame that affects all gay Catholics, cludg those who never step si a therapist’s office. Tristan did not thk of her sexualy as the only issue she was alg wh, but when she raised other ncerns, she said, her therapist seemed to thk beg gay was the central problem.
She spent months suicidal, wishg for gay Catholics have heard, over and over, that nobody is “born gay. ” She nonted her therapist and said, “I feel like you don’t thk I n be happy and healthy if I’m gay. ” He hadn’t enuntered any Catholic discsns of what means to be gay led by people who didn’t have the trmas.
The four 30-hour urs he took at the stute rerced his belief “that I would be healed by learng about [homosexualy] enough and prayg enough. Bob, as we all lovgly ll him” as “an amazg, lovg man, ” who nohels nvced him of what he now se as “misrmatn” about the nature and orig of homosexualy, attributg a “homosexual clatn” to problems fay relatnships, sexual trma cludg e of pornography, the lack of a proper velopment of masculy and other “wounds”—ias he later heard om prits the Schuchts, thor of the upg book Be Rtored: Healg Our Sexual Wounds Through J’ Merciful Love, disagreed wh the labelg of his work as of “misrmatn, ” statg that all of the materials om the John Pl II Healg Center have approval om the lol bishop and his books have obtaed an imprimatur. ” When a Catholic spirual director suggted that some people might be “lled to” gay relatnships, Kent “ran the oppose directn of that.
DR. PETER CLEMENT GAY, MD
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But livg wh men who didn’t know he was gay, and who often exprsed homophobia (at which Kent tried to lgh rponse), proved so gelg that he beme physilly ill. ’” He found a Catholic church that he scribed as “very affirmg, ” where he met Catholics whout his “hangups” around homosexualy. ”As he began to leave nversn therapy behd, Kent read gay narrativ like The Velvet Rage: Overg the Pa of Growg Up Gay a Straight Man’s World, by the psychologist Alan Downs.
” But the secular psychologists arranged the elements a different orr, he said: “You are born gay. That rults a feelg of shame bee of the way society has been discrimatory agast gay people, and that shame further ph you to isolatn.
”When John first found gay Catholics sharg their fah (for example, the wrgs of the lawyer and blogger Chris Damian), he said, “I wept. Eve ThEve Th is the thor of Gay and Catholic: Acceptg My Sexualy, Fdg Communy, Livg My Fah and Punishment: A Love Story.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
Christian took a stab at fdg realy behd the facili that offer gused remedi for homosexualy his narrative ‘Unrver Doctor: Cure Me I’m Gay.
First, nsir what the Bible says about gay love, and tly ci if that is the path you wish to fight for. Learn all you n om strong Christian teachers, and see how par to what the gay muny tells you about gay Christians. There are ngregatns of even the most tradnally homophobic nomatns that clare themselv "Affirmg" or LGBTQ iendly.
Most nomatns have gay-iendly church, but you might have luck wh a UCC, Quaker, or Unarian Universalist church.
THE MISPLACED INTY OF GAY CHRISTIANY
Look for church that have LGBTQ affy groups, Gay Straight Allianc, mentorg programs for queer youth, and diversy-affirmg mte.
If there are no ngregatns near where you live, nsir streamg onle church servic om a gay-affirmg church and participatg related msage boards.