'Healed' by God - Conservative Christians Hold Conference To 'Cure' Gays

[WillyT]

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When activists for gay and lesbian causes gather outside a church near Seattle this weekend, they will have many critical things to say about how conservative Christian institutions have treated them.

Inside Northshore Baptist Church, where Focus on the Family will be preaching that homosexuality can be “healed” by the power of God’s love, Christian counselors will be making much the same point.

In addition to “powerful stories of ex-gay men and women,” people attending the Love Won Out conference will hear “a challenge to the church,” said Dr. Bill Maier, a child and family psychologist who is one of the event’s main speakers. Another is the Rev. Nancy Heche, the mother of Anne Heche, the actress who famously married a man after living a widely publicized lesbian life with comedian Ellen DeGeneres.

And...

To be sure, Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs-based ministry run by James Dobson, perhaps the most influential evangelical figure in the nation today, would agree with detractors of Love Won Out about very little else. At the one-day event, which is held a handful of times a year, ministers, psychologists and counselors who say they have left homosexuality behind them make the case for “reparative therapy” — the hypothesis that homosexuality is not innate and can be “repaired.”

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8234503/

Hey!!! - Religious Hypocrites!!! - HEAL THY-SELVES!!!

And go the hell away.

:mad::nuke::grr:

[RobertSeattle]

1. Too bad we can't cure hypocrisy and ignorance

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I have an idea

Why don't they gather and 'cure' Shrub and his cronies of being murderous thugs! Because we know for damn sure that murder is not a genetic issue (in most people)!

[Trish1168]

3. They love them so much, they want to kill them

The dominionists believe in bringing back the death penalty for gay people.

Gotta love that 'culture of life'.

Hypocrites.

[Trish1168]

4. In the same way we love the Iraqi's (we kill them too).

[politicaholic]

5. Sounds like it'll be a hoot...

I could go, tell them I'm gay, get 'the cure', and then run around the church humping the leg of every woman I see.

Actually I would probably get arrested if I did that, but wow, that would be funny.

[bluestateguy]

6. If Democrats ever elect a president again

they will control the federal government, AND have the powers of the Patriot Act. Under that law, the Administration may declare an organization as a terrorist group.

See where this is going?

Focus on the Family...STAMP!...Terrorist Group

Christian Coalition...STAMP!...Terrorist Group

Eagle Forum...STAMP!...Terrorist Group

[TheWraith]

18. Bwahahahahaha

I'd bet my entire savings account that within hours of a Dem being sworn in, the Repubs will suddenly become intensely concerned about civil liberties. :)

Personally, I think that anyone whose religious beliefs center around act-outs of denial, repression, pain, and death is probably dangerous. It's true of the Wahabbists, and it's true of the Christian Right. Ironically, they're closer than they seem: they're taught that certain things are sinful and evil, so in order to repress these desires within themselves, they lash out at others. Just as the American preacher who shouts the loudest about gays probably fantasizes about sex with men, the Saudi Imam who decries American excess and loose morals probably wants to be cruising SoCal in a convertible picking up girls. The Bard said it best: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[Megahurtz]

7. Oh Please!

:eyes:

[BamaLefty]

8. Then Why Do Their Kids Have Pre-Marital Sex?

Be consistent. Homosexuality is no greater sexual deviancy (or sin in this case) than pre-martial sex.

My view.

[msongs]

9. jesus: divorce = adultery - > half of all xians are going to HELL

the hypocrites who cannot keep a wife or a husband attack gays because it is safe to do so and brings in lots of cash.

the republican party makes is safe to do so.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[dbonds]

10. Can we start a weekly prayer time, to heal christians of false spiritualit

Oh Great Goddess

May you touch the hearts of all these conservative christian and show them the real meaning of spirituality. Open their eyes to the difference between political religions and spirituality. Open their eyes to true morals and the realization that we are all one and the same.

[undeterred]

11. Anne Heche is bisexual- she was involved with Steve Martin

before Ellen DeGeneres.

They just don't get it.

[Ian David]

13. Steve Martin? Why did I think it was King Tut?

[Ian David]

12. Calling all gay hotties- go hang-out near this convention and hit on them!

Seduce these liars and document them in compromising positions.

Make them "fall of the wagon," so to speak, and turn it into a "Kodak Moment."

[Guckert]

14. It's about time God did something about those Gays. maybe later he can

work on terrorists, world hunger, aids, and Genocide. At least he has his priorities strait. :puke:

[Initech]

15. So where is James Dobson going to be at this conference?

I guess he's too scared about running into the protestors!

[movonne]

16. They should hold a conference of curing themselves...Sick SOB's.

[6000eliot]

17. I would like to start a conversion program

for hateful Xtian assholes!

[kbm8795]

19. These people are inherently evil. . .

They have absolutely no morality beyond the twisted notion of providing psychological and spiritual shock therapy to "cure" gays. . .and even worse, they utilize their own style of fear-and-smear to bully people to embrace their own internalized insecurities.