Pray away the gay camp
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Self Change Efforts
We, as national organizations representing millions of licensed medical and mental health care professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to express our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We stand firmly together in support of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous apply of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to assist the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender utterance is patho
Leaving Gay Lifestyle
leaving gay lifestyle
Alliance for Therapeutic Choice
The Alliance exists to encourage human flourishing by promoting a more complete truth, informed by Judeo-Christian values and natural law, about the science of sexual orientation and biological sex through education, advocacy, clinical practice for mental health therapists, and referral for professional mental health counseling.
Changed
CHANGED is a community of friends who once identified as LGBTQ+. Today, we observe the love of Jesus and His freedom in our lives.
Courage July 11, &#; -- A former patient who sought aid from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his queer urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented." "[One counselor's] path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," said Andrew Ramirez, who was years-old at the time he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in suburban Minneapolis in "And God would forgive me if I were straight." In the past, Marcus Bachmann has disputed the clinic has treated same-sex attracted patients this way. But Ramirez's account, which was first reported by The Nation, is similar to the counseling session that appears on new undercover video shot by a gay rights advocacy group last month. That footage shows another counselor at the Bachmann clinic telling a gay man posing as a patient that, with prayer and effort, he could eventually lea This important film follows survivors and former leaders of the group, many of whom have now renounced the ‘church’. While it can be easy to think of conversion practices as something of the past, they can – and do – still happen to lesbian, lgbtq+, bi, trans, queer, intersex and ace people across the United Kingdom today. So, what actually are conversion practices? Conversion practices are any intervention that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender persona. Conversion practices work towards one goal, and that goal is to ‘cure’ someone from being sapphic, gay, bi, trans, ace, intersex and/or queer. Conversion practices are one-directional: the intention is to get a person to change or cancel their sexual orientation or gender identity. This is the opposite of ap
Courage is an apostolate of the Catholic Church that ministers to those with same-sex attractions and their loved ones. This website is obtainable in English, Spanish, German and French. This website offers contact information for the central office in Connecticut; chapter listings in each state; member testimonies; conferences; retreats; sports camps; and information about Priests with Courage, priests who minister to persons struggling with homosexuality; and communication about EnCourage, a ministry that helps relatives and f Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay?
Netflix’s Pray Away shows us the horrors of religious conversion practices - here’s why we desire a ban without exceptions
Netflix’s new documentary Pray Away follows the conduct of Exodus, a religious group who told Gay members – and their families – that they could change who they were.