Living the lie of being gay
The Lies and Dangers of Actions to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Persona Change Efforts
We, as national organizations characterizing 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 modify a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We pose firmly together in support of legislative and policy tries to curtail the unscientific and treacherous practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Youngster Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Youngster and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that suc
Keys to Recovery from Same-Sex Attractions
by: LHM Board
[Note: while we are confident that the following list is accurate, we are alert that it can be overwhelming. It would be like handing a newborn baby a list of all the things he will have to learn in the next five years: everything from learning to turn over, learning to walk, becoming potty-trained, learning to talk, discovering hes not a part of his mommy, learning how to obey, getting ready to read, going to school. . . enjoy we said, overwhelming! This is the big picture of how to walk out the objective of recovery. Allow us to encourage you to continually inquire the Lord, What one thing do You want me to do next? and then execute it.]
1. Accept that its not going to be easy. Transform that challenges our known comfort zone is difficult and painful. You are changing not just one isolated habit, but a collection of thoughts and behaviors that have made up your relational pattern for a lifetime. An important component of recovery is changing the wrong faith about your identity, that this is me. This will obtain an incredible amount of endeavor, but you don’t have to do it in your have strength: the same power that raised Christ from the
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Lie #1: Homosexuality is normal.
Included in this lie is the belief that queer orientation is genuine and immutable—fixed and never-changing. Homosexual orientation, a nineteenth-century Freudian invention, is an unbiblical category of personhood and an antagonist to the creation ordinance because it redefines sinful desire as something that defines who you are rather than how you feel. Lie #1 claims that the word of God doesn’t apply to homosexual orientation because homosexual orientation represents a person’s core truth. Some professing Christians believe that homosexual orientation is fixed, immutable (unchangeable), and part of God’s creational and eternal plan. Some people believe that homosexuality is embedded in a person’s identity.
We must ponder why God’s attribute of immutability has been embraced by the LGBTQ+ movement as an attribute of homosexual orientation. God is immutable—God never changes. One theologian defines God’s immutability as “that perfection in God whereby He is exalted above all.” But if you exchange the Maker for the creature, you impose God’s attributes on gentleman. When we listen “homosexual orientation is fixed and immutable—it never changes,” thi