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Homosexuality
What Didn't Work
Extracts from an article by Ben Newman - The Exodus Impact, 1/04
- Denying or Suppressing it
- Using Willpower
- Trying to Pray It Away
- Indulging It
- "Gay Affirmation"
- Shame, Self-Redicule, and Self Hate
- Isolation and Secrecy
- Trying to Force Opposite-Sex Attraction
Papers and Articles
- "$25 Million 1997 Budget for Homosexual Groups" - Data From Lambda Report, Jan-Feb,1998
- "To Those Wanting to Leave Homosexual Behavior" - Harry Briley - 4/98
- "How Pooh became Transgendered: Go ask Alice." - Harry Briley - 9/98
- "Student Asks: Natural or Pathological?" - Harry Briley - 4/99
- "Born That Way? (Part 1)" - Art Croney - 12/00
- "Born That Way? (Part 2)" - Art Croney - 1/01
- "'Gay' rights' secret agenda" - WhistleBlower Magazine - 6/02
- "Open Letter to Gay Men" - Seattle Gay News, 6/02
California Calendar
These California events use reason and non-extremism rarely seen. No bashing. No easy answers. Offered as a public service so information about conservative morals regarding homosexuality can be presented. These are usual ANNUAL events that we know about.
- January, Pasadena-, Annual Celebration Dinner, Living Stones Ministries, 626/963-6683.
- February, San Rafael, Annual "New Hope" night. 415/453-6475
- May , San Diego, Annual Trauma and Sexuality Conference. 760/789-4700
- July , Annual Conference for Exodus International, Over 80 workshops, speakers, worship. Anticipate 1,200 attendees and delegates from related ministries in over 17 countries. Brochure with details available via E-Mail or Toll-free 1-888-264-0877 Mon-Fri
- October 11, "The National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day". E-Mail: Kerusso Ministries
Links
These sites and support groups are a representative sampling (mostly California) without endorsement and without their knowledge. They provide details about homosexuality in general. They are apolitical, usually hold historic Christian theology, and are support groups for individuals seeking freedom from same-sex attraction issues. They approach this issue with candor and confidentiality. Support group leaders are not therapists.
- watch a slideshow about a Father's Love on your behalf
- Live-In Ministries:
- Denominational Resources:
- Overcomers Outreach - Over 86 support groups across California - A Christ-Centered 12-Step Recovery Program addressing addictions and compulsions - Bridging the gap between traditional 12-step support groups and hurting people in churches of all denominations - 1-800/310-3001 or 714/491-3000
- Weekly California Locations
- Homosexuals Anonymous - 1-800/288-HAFS or 610/376-1146.
Homosexuals Anonymous also sells ex-gay books and videos through their online
book catalog
- S-Anon - 615/833-3152 National.
Northern California S-Anon Intergroup (Santa Clara) - Hotline 510/869-4884
- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) - Supporting the right of homosexuals and lesbians to change ~703/739-8220 - E-Mail
- For those who are a parent, sibling, or friend of someone in the lifestyle, please
call or email PFOX National Director Regina
Griggs for a local
chapter. PFOX chapters hold regular meetings and support each other
as we together learn to love the struggler without approving of his or her homosexual
lifestyle.
- Prop 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund. This is Senator Pete Knight's grass roots group to respond whenever the legislature, governor, and governmental social engineers do yet another end-run around the Defense of Marriage Iniative (Prop 22).
- Exodus International- Toll-free 888-264-0877 or E-Mail.
- Ministry Links: California Locations
- Exodus Youth Net
- Hope for Homosexuals sponsored by the
Family Policy Network
Collections of Links
These are master sites for links to hundreds of pages on freedom from homosexuality.
Books and Videos
Pneuma Life offers "Eternal Victim / Eternal Victor" by Donnie McClurkin, 2001. This is a truly personal testimony by one of Gospel music's favorite artists. Victims and victors both encounter conflict, contest and combat. How you handle those events classifies whether you are one or the other. Although not about homosexuality, the author's homosexuality becomes the teeth of a captivating book about overcoming adversity. - Book reviewed by Pastor DL Foster of Atlanta. His web site has African American testimonies of freedom from homosexuality.
International Healing Foundation offers "Coming Out Straight" by ex-gay psychotherapist and PFOX
President, Richard Cohen. Radio personality Dr.
Laura wrote the foreword, which details how to understand and heal
homosexuality. - 301/805-6111
Regeneration Books, 410/661-4337 or E-Mail, sells ex-gay books and videos that can
help one understand the whys and hows of homosexual behavior, as well as offer
hope on exiting the lifestyle. The catalog includes materials for the
homosexual or lesbian struggler, as well as materials for parents, children,
teens, siblings and friends of strugglers.
AFA (American Family Association) distributes the video "It's Not Gay" where former homosexuals explain why they left the lifestyle. The video is geared towards both teens and adults. - 662/844-5036 ext. 4
"Not Afraid to Change" - This book by John Paulk details his life as an active homosexual, a male escort, a female impersonator, and finally a husband and father. Paulk's testimony is proof that gays can change.
- Plus links to other personal stories
Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia (unedited)
HOMOSEXUALITY
, preference for members of one's own gender for purposes of sexual gratification. Female homosexuals are frequently known as lesbians. Historically, homosexuality has commanded much interest and attention. Attitudes toward such preference have varied in different epochs and among diverse cultural and subcultural groups, ranging from acceptance (as among the ancient Greeks), to measured tolerance (in Roman times), to outright condemnation. According to the Old Testament (see Leviticus. 18:22, 20:13), sex between men is "an abomination," and persons guilty of homosexuality should be put to death. This condemnation has affected the Judeo-Christian attitude toward homosexuality for centuries.
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