I have just recently watched the movie/documentary For The Bible Tells Me So. This movie follows four families that are conservative Christians and have a gay child. This movie does a great job of showing all sides of the argument and it got me to start searching into some of the groups and practices they were talking about; mainly repairitive therapy and ex-gay ministries.
If you Google search ex-gay ministries the first thing that pops up is Exodus Ministries. Exodus Ministries claims to be "the largest information and referral ministry in the world addressing homosexual issues." This is a major claim and I wanted to look more into what their beliefs and practices were if they are educating people globally about homosexuality.
The information I found is SCARY! Despite having no evidence to back it up, they were linking homosexuality to pedophilia, ruined families, messed up children, and even the fall of America. They even claimed that AIDS is "a reaping of consequences of God's wrath." So basically AIDS is the "gay disease." How 1980's can you get?
I can't believe that this website/foundation/whatever it is, is considered to be legitimate. I feel physically ill everytime I visit the website and my heart hurts for those people that buy into this stuff.
They need to be told that God made them that way and loves them for exactly who they are. Not that they need to try to change something, that can't be changed, in order to earn God's love and be happy in life.
It reminds me of 1 Corinthians 15:10a- But by the grace of God I am what I am.
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