Has it only been 10 years? Seems like a lifetime.

Focus on the Family focuses on homosexuals
Can gays switch?

By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

For a decade, Focus on the Family has delved into what it believes is the biblical truth about sexual behavior through its "Love Won Out" conferences.

Focus says the conferences started a national conversation on the origins of homosexuality and have nurtured thousands of troubled families and helped hundreds of former gays and lesbians "escape the lifestyle."

But pro-gay activists and many psychology experts denounce attempts to change people's sexual orientation through religious mediation or other so-called reparative therapies. They say it causes people great harm in an attempt to fix something that isn't broken.

The conservative Christian media ministry's 10th-anniversary conference is Sunday at its home base in Colorado.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10788844?_requestid=1921550&_requestid=2112858&_requestid=1161453

From what I've gathered over the past few years, their fund raising is way down, and their staff has been downsized.

So cheers to Focus on the Family, and let's 'pray' you don't make it to 15.


:toast: :party: :applause: :patriot:

This part of the article baffles me:
"But pro-gay activists and many psychology experts denounce attempts to change people's sexual orientation through religious mediation or other so-called reparative therapies."

especially this part:
"many psychology experts"

Since 1973, the APA has officially said that reparative therapy is a crock of shit. That "many" should definitely be changed to "most" or to point out the APA's official stance on reparative therapies.

Other than that small critique of the language used in the article:
Muahahahahaha, people aren't giving money to a phony hate organization as much as they used to. That's one small battle WON for us, in a way. :toast:

Reparative therapy does NOT work. I will be sooooo glad when the day comes that no one ever tries that nonsense on any gay people ever ever ever again.

I'm a pro-gay activist, I think EVERYBODY should be gay :P . . . except me :)

I absolutely hate these arguments, because I really don't care what makes people gay or straight. It doesn't affect my treatment of anyone-I care far more about whether people are cruel than whether they are gay.

I do think it's okay for a good therapist to explore issues of sexuality with their clients, if their clients feel unsure or have been sexually abused as children and are concerned that their orientation is a result. A good therapist can address this and help the client be secure in his or her orientation and not live with the fear that it is the result of abuse. Or, conversely, that the client isn't gay and needs to get over hostility toward or fear of the opposite gender, for example. Human sexuality is such a complex thing.


I know South Park is not really all that popular here, but there is an absolutely hilarious episode in which Butters' parents send him to one of those programs christian parents send their gay kids to in order to try to convert them back to heterosexuality.