Posted on 02/07/2018 9:32:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Fifteen men and women from around the world who say they are coming out of "homosexual practices" are featured in a documentary film set to be released Thursday by a U.K.-based Christian ministry.
Christian Concern said in a statement on Tuesday that "Voices of the Silenced: Experts, Evidences and Ideologies," will be screened in London and features interviews with international experts who support the ex-gay group.
"'Voices of the Silenced' challenges the closedown on debate about the value of therapeutic support undertaken in ways that are respectful of client goals and individual rights to change," the group said.
"Exposing the largely unexamined role of sexual politics and the ideological basis of renewed calls for banning therapies in some western nations, the film examines the ancient ideologies of sexuality in the Greco-Roman world, the historical influence of sexual ethics from the Judeo-Christian world and the re-emergence of pansexual humanist values in the modern era."
Core Issues Trust is the charity behind the film, with the ministry positioning that it supports "men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression."
Core Issues says on its website that it "respects the rights of individuals who identify as 'gay' who do not seek change," and also supports the "dignity of the LGBT person."
It explains that it does not support same-sex marriage, however, but that it offers "one-to-one support for individuals voluntarily seeking to leave homosexual behaviors and feelings."
The documentary, which is being released online and in DVD in several languages, highlights the stories of 15 people, from countries across Europe and the United States, who talk about their personal experiences and explain why they are no longer gay or lesbian.
"They share them not to offer a new dogma, but because they have found pathways that have been difficult to discover, and perhaps even hidden from them," the website for the film states.
"They deserve to be celebrated and encouraged in their willingness to stand up for their own truths. Those who cannot show their faces remind us that speaking out comes with a price in our modern societies."
LGBT activist groups, such as the National Center for Lesbian Rights, strongly oppose methods they describe as "conversion therapy," claiming that much of the work is done by people "with little or no formal psychological training, operating instead from a strict religious perspective, believing homosexuality to be a sin."
Christian ministries who say that they help people seeking to leave homosexuality have insisted that such personal stories are genuine.
A Facebook video about a Christian speaker and blogger who says that she left behind her life as a lesbian to get married to her husband went viral in January and was viewed over 2.3 million times.
Emily Thomas shared in the video for Anchored North that she was "super wild" and in "serial relationships with women" during her young adult years, but began the process of leaving homosexuality after she was invited to a Bible study.
Thomas' video sparked major criticism from pro-LGBT media organizations, though Greg Sukert of Anchored North told The Christian Post in an interview that it's "incredibly dishonest and childish to dismiss someone's story and personal account as 'brainwashed' just because they disagree with the position of the individual."
Sukert told CP that Thomas "is an intelligent, thoughtful, funny, and bold woman. She has a genuine story of a life transformed by the Gospel. Anyone who dismisses her account to 'brainwashing' should be ashamed by their attempts to wrongfully silence the validity of her life experiences."
Watch a tralier for the documentary below:
Most homosexuals were sexually abused as children.
Providing access to RAPE THERAPY can help address the mental effects of such abuse.
It is NOT “conversion therapy”!!!!!
I personally know of a couple of people (both male and female) who were 100% “committed” homosexuals - fully-practicing, who were transformed by the power of Christ and now are very happy, healthy, heterosexuals, married with children. They both are very happy to share the transformation in their lives and to testify of the power of God to change them at the very core.
I’m surprised the British government is allowing this. In socialist countries, expressions of traditional Christian sexual morality - particularly regarding homosexuality - are increasingly subject to legal sanctions.
Where did you get THAT from?
Glad you asked:
On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.
I have a dozen other such scholarly citations if you’d like?
and here:
>http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/06/17/childhood-sexual-abuse-and-male-homosexuality/<
I have done a lot of counseling with men who struggle with same-sex attraction. Some have been in the lifestyle, others have battled with lust and pornography. I would estimate that in three-fourths of the cases, there was some sort of sexual abuse or misconduct that formed a powerful memory which contributed to the struggle. (3)
This gal was seduced by an older woman as a teenager.
I’d like to see that data....not doubting it might have some credence.....I think men who molest kids usually were victims themselves
I do know many homosexual men were coddled by overprotective moms
To protect what she saw as their vulnerability as effete or did her actions cause it?
They cease viewing women as sex objects...
I’m very ambivalent on this leaning more nature than nurture but also seeing nurture results in nature paths
I’ve raised many kids
I’ve seen at schools little boys already sissified as toddlers exhibiting female mannerisms
My gut is the mother coddling is more resultant than causative in those cases
Women are indeed often lesbian resultant of sexual moleststion by trusted males
And then there are bull dykes who look genetically out of sorts
I think you can train homosexuals not to indulge their predilections
I know several who had kids but eventually they follow desire
I’m in the south where some men still cloak cakery
Never heard of this film but I am 99.9% certain that it is, or will be banned here in Kanaduh, either officially or unofficially through pressure by our left-wing governments.
every homosexual I have met is troubled by one, or more, demons - addiction, disease, rampant promiscuity, depression, suicide, violence (from other gays).
I even met some homosexuals who literally told me they HATED begin gay. One older homosexual (who by that point was old and alone) even told me “Why would anyone want to live like this???!!!”
They are severely conflicted. At some level, they all understand their behavior is self-destructive. Sadly, our cultural-marxist/relativist society now just increase that conflict and cognitive dissonance.
See my posts #6, & 7.
If you want my multi-page MS Word doc of multiple source studies and exceprpts, private reply your e-mail.
I appreciate the info. Thank you.
Dean Byrd
Wonder if we’re related distantly
That’s my surname
Lesbians who are refuge lesbians or not bulls are more likely to return to men for many reasons
Security
Children
Better more fulfilling sex
Intimacy from physical contact you only can get from intercourse
Etc
This is strictly anecdotal observations of sixty years
I’ve known a dozen attractive lesbians who went that way after abuse from males and ultimately returned to men
And contrary to what most would think they didn’t return to meterosexuals but rather alpha males...robust virile men
Which tells me they missed a nice rail.
RE: I have done a lot of counseling with men who struggle with same-sex attraction.
May I ask a question — Is this still allowed nowadays?
Would this not count towards “conversion therapy” ( which is banned in some states )?
I know many people who have come out of homosexuality but they became bisexuals. But still, they came out. It’s not as hard-wired as they make it out to be.
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My sister has some homosexual friends who say the same thing.
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