ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Kristine Stolakis and Julie Rodgers on their documentary “Pray Away,” which examines the fallout from conversion therapy, a practice legal in some form in 30 states.
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Also, vote for the social safety net. If they can fire you for being open about being gay they effectively cause people to be closeted. Notice how the states with the strongest safety net have the most out gay communities. I don't care if you are Republican about other things like trade and immigration- but support the social safety net for now.
This has nothing to do with conversion (which is impossible) and everything to do with shaming honest people who are happy being gay. The people running these conversion therapy outfits are self-hating gay people.
Mike Pence is one of the great success stories of the "pray away the gay"
Hello. We always need to pray for each other. A verse from the bible for us: (Heb 10. Therefore, brothers, we have full confidence to enter the Most Holy Place through the blood of Jesus, through a new and living way that he opened for us through the veil, that is, through his body. "Dear,
amidst the difficulties, tragedies, traumas and disappointments that sometimes affect us in this life, there is hope ..in Christ. Through His suffering, death and resurrection, He showed us a new way back to the love of the Eternal Creator Father. In Christ, we will return to the comfort, protection and guidance of the Eternal God, Father of love. Seek it with all your heart. Jesus loves you and wants to save you. Pray. Read the Bible. Jesus will return soon. You are precious to God. From Brazil.🙏
Conversion is possible. This programs are there for those who want help. It is not something that can be taken lightly.
The person that has the burden of the same sex attractions, finds these type of place and community as an extension of hope. A place of rest. How dare you take that from them.
Jesus is mighty to save. His word "the Bible" is always the truth. Read it for yourselves.
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, " If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
John 8:31-32
Seek Him in prayer and ask Him for help. Don't get discourage if you feel you are not been heard. He, is listening. Jesus loves you.
There are natural neurophysiological differences… To pray it away is to deny reality.
I was surprised that Maskoffweb was able to finance my bank account with a large funds to clear my debt and get my bill paid
To those struggling with same sex attraction but love God more. Our lord will reward you beyond believe.
Popular culture converts many children to become gay so we know it works.
Try being a conservative
Screw religion!
Is there a conversation therapy for racism though? 😂
I find it silly. .! God gave us just "1" Divine gift, at birth. . That was/is the divine gift of 'Choice'.. How we journey throughout life, is that choice… Who is to say that my walk in life, is someone else's choice.. We 'need' to live better…!
🤬 good ole religion. Disgusting
That's exactly what the gay community needs is a little bit of Jesus. 🤮
It's worked for Mike Pence – pray it away, call your wife "mother", and never let'em see you cry.
You can't pray the gay away
We are leaving a life hypocrisy we fear our own people community/LGBT Medias ETC… then god, god pressure is great then a poor human being… if they cancel you god will not cancel you.
Church is just in survival mode, they won't comment directly that it's an abomination even its written in their holy books, it even had a story like gomorah
I'm also a straight and heterosexual boy and man, so for me anyway, I'm not going to watch it once and for all.
Another clear case of religious hypocrisy
Cool
“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”
Leviticus 20:13 ESV
Disgusting stuff from a book that most believers don’t deign to read closely for themselves or else they rationalize atrocities.
I know many Christians that are really great people, however this is because of their empathy and our more modern moral understanding of wellbeing. The Bible is NOT a good moral source and can be used to justify atrocities.
For example, it explicitly permits chattel slavery, celebrates genocide/infanticide, describes death for everything basically, has absurd stories clearly taken from other mythologies (ex. Noah’s Ark), celebrates a deity that kills millions of people including 14,700 of his own for them complaining about being killed so much, etc.
Here’s one example with Moses commanding his soldiers on how to handle the survivors after they annihilated all the men:
“Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.”
Numbers 31:17-18 ESV
For those that think that Jesus did not expect the old laws, such as slavery, to be followed, consider one example:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:17-19 ESV
The fact is that slave owners used the Bible’s explicit permission for chattel slavery, and Jesus’s own depicted words, to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In exactly zero places in the Bible did the supposedly omnipotent, loving god explicitly take a clear stance against slavery.
Christianity and other religions have caused significant net harm to society. The sooner we question their claims and dogma with intellectual honesty, the better.
Everyone don't let this moment pass please make the best decision of your life right now by allowing God to come into your life by you praying to God everyday for his help in every decision of your life everyday and in every situation of your life everyday for I guarantee if you do this everyday then your life will get better, you will have more peace, you will be more successful, you will have more happiness, and all your dreams will come true that’s because when you pray to God then God will make all good things possible for you and you must not forget to read the “Holy Bible” everyday and a great place for you to start in the holy Bible is (Psalms 1) and everyday after that read a chapter in Psalms till you finish all the chapters in Psalms then after that start on (Proverbs 1) then everyday after that read a chapter in Proverbs till you finish all the chapters in Proverbs and after that read every chapter of the Holy Bible until you finish it for it will change your life in the most amazing way
This is so messed up, wow :/
LGBTQ Baiting…smh
How about, mind your own damn business? No one is causing you grief in your life for being straight to the point of suicide. So F your self righteous bs.
You can't convert somebody, they must want to make the change in themselves and it begins by delving into what happened to them when they were younger to cause such sexual imbalance.
And GOD said JUDGE NOT !!! 🙏
as the saying goes…
don't judge a book 📖
if you're not a judge.
no hate ✌🏻😊
We have to love ourselves. We aren’t going to be able to be perfect. It’s just okay. Honestly, I am a single mom. My only son has struggled big time with his gender. Honestly, if I could have been a mom of twins, I would have bugged them …both. (With the status of the only daughter, I had two brothers. ) I lost my older brother from suicide and lung cancer several years ago. It was very sad for weeks. I had Kris and he was needing his one parent. Without my older dearest brother, I was a mess! I had my parents then, plus my middle brother and his own family. (Yet , I was totally exhausted and crying. ) Since then, I can’t cry easily. Yet, I was sent to counseling and my son and I were just struggling after 9/11. We sold our house and I got more I’ll with a tumor of my face. Yup! So, but thankful for every day. I am. (In reality, we are generally not ever gonna be progressing well.. if we are not accepting of who we are.) It’s a beautiful place to be honest and accepting. Yup!