Tweet Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian ministry, wants high school and college-aged students to join them in their “truth telling” sacred bullying-in-Jesus-Name of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community during Day of Dialogue. Even when words are wrapped in heart-themed paper and tied with a “Jesus-loves-you” ribbon, if there is something rotten [...]
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“The Cross in the Closet” by Tim Kurek Reinforces Transphobia while Dealing with Homophobia
Tweet Timothy Kurek is a fine story teller. I read a few chapters from his book The Cross in the Closet a few years ago when I met him at a conference we were both attending. It is admirable that a young straight man would undertake a radical experiment to confront his own homophobia and judgments on a [...]
Back to the Start | The Real Roots of Exodus | Pt.I
Tweet In September 2012, I attended the inaugural conference for Restored Hope Network (RHN) at Sunrise Community Church in Sacramento, CA. The forming committee for RHN had been gathering for several months in response to the belief that Exodus International was straying from its roots. When they concluded that their differences with Exodus were irreparable, several Exodus member [...]
Head of Exodus: Reparative Therapy (Gay to Straight) Does Not Work
Tweet For almost forty years, the Christian church has been funneling their members who “struggle with homosexuality” towards “reparative therapy”. At the core of that ”change” process from homosexuality to heterosexuality is one of three false beliefs about the “causes” of homosexuality: inappropriate parenting that has lead to the need to express sexuality and interests towards [...]
Six Things Straight People Should Stop Saying about Gay People
Tweet A kind woman, who would never intentionally offend another person, writes: “I love gay people, I just cannot support their gay lifestyle.” A pastor stands holding an electric cord as a prop and warns the congregation, “Don’t mess with God’s original design. Gay sex is not natural, the parts don’t fit.” A man thinks [...]
Mary’s Exit from Exodus and Door to Freedom
Tweet Exodus International is a “worldwide network of men and women who have found freedom from homosexuality, and the largest Christian ministry dealing with this topic in the world today.” At 25, Mary was in absolute despair and believed she was alone as a Christian struggling with lesbianism. She had been involved in several [...]
Alan Chambers and the Message of Exodus at the Gay Christian Network Conference
Tweet The single greatest lie the Christian church tells about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is that sexual orientation and gender identity are not innate. Supporting this lie are complexly interwoven systems rooted in churches, faiths, ethnic groups, political parties and social structures. How can this possibly be untangled and deconstructed with Christian [...]
Sexual Orientation and Science | Hands
Tweet The two objections I hear most in withholding full equality for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (glbt) community are: “being gay is a choice,” and “being gay is a result of destructive family dynamics or early negative sexual imprint.” Both these objections inherently label being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender a “behavior” and [...]
Student Non Discrimination Act Needed to Protect GLBT Students from Bullying
Tweet Casey, sixteen and gay, was being bullied by two students at his high school in Ohio. His youth pastor, a friend of mine, helped to secure a restraining order to protect him, but the principal downgraded the severity with a weaker solution. He let Casey come to the office five minutes before classes ended and [...]
Ten Things I’ve Learned About Gay People in Ten Years | A Christian Perspective
Tweet In 2001, if you had asked me, “Kathy, can you be gay and Christian?” I would have hedged a bit and fallen on the side of “No”. I did not have any close relationships with gay people nor had I ever studied the issue in the Bible. I did not even know one gay [...]
Trans-Stonewall | Chaz Opens the Door
Tweet Forty years ago, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities tumbled out of the closet at Stonewall, never to go back in again. Stonewall conveniently produced a replacement for the now-gone communists; after all, nothing unites people like a good ol’ fashioned enemy! Gay people became the new devil to be protected against. “Hide [...]
Trans-mockery in the House of God? Get Educated
Tweet Mockery should never come from the House of God. Never. As the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities find more acceptance in churches and in society, still left in the shadows and in the back corners hidden from our kind considerations are the transgender people. I am witnessing them become the next target of [...]
TRANSMEN | TRANSWOMEN and the OCCASIONAL INTERSEXED PEOPLE
Tweet I cannot say why, but I have an unusually big soft spot for transmen and women. I am amazed at the journey they go through in life to just survive. Can you imagine waking up everyday and feeling like you are in the wrong body? Listen to the words of my friends. Try to [...]
BISEXUALS
Tweet BEING CONSTRUCTED WITH PERSONAL STORIES OVER TIME PROJECT BEGAN : Jun2011 WESLEY says: DON’T HATE ME FOR WHO I AM My name is Wesley and this is my story about being bisexual. I would like to start by saying that a lot of people feel that there is no such thing as bisexual. They [...]
REPARATIVE THERAPY
Tweet Page to be constructed with stories of several high profile men and women who have been leaders/participants in Exodus and other reparative therapy treatments. I wanted to find out first hand what Exodus actually does and to see for myself success stories of men and women who have gone through Exodus. I personally contacted [...]
