its a tragedy isn’t. the people who run these progams have no contact with people that have left as far as i know.
I remember when I left the 6 months program that I was told that I was not to have any contact with people from the church unless I was truly repentant. I remember that Shirley actually send messages to church leaders and my friends to have nothing to do with me as I was an apostate…..I’d been handed over to the devil apparently.
When I went of visit my friends they wouldn’t allow me in the house and asked me to leave.
as I mentioned on my blog
Unfortunately I have to deal with dark side of the Ć©x-gayā myth. The failures. People like Ron donāt see them in the state I do as they have left the programs.
Currently Iām working with a guy who was a leader in Living Waters ministry. At the age of 40 his marriage began to fall apart once he disclosed to his wife that he had had sex with a man. The wife threw him out, turned his daughters against himā¦ā¦and all his social network and friends have done the same. He is in grief at the loss of so much. (I know what that is about).
Then there is the doctor in a rural town who injected himself with an overdose of morphine outside the town in his carā¦.leaving behind a wife and three kids. I donāt know if they know the real reason he killed himself. But I know it was because he was gay and a Christian.
Then there is the young guy who went through Ronās program and attempted suicide three times.
ā¦.and David who jumped off a bridge in the Blue Mountains
ā¦.the 16 year old who put his head on a railway track down in the Shire
The issue is always the sameā¦ā¦the perceived conflict between their sexuality and their faith.
I could go onā¦..but you get the pictureā¦ā¦.itās a very sad state of affairsā¦..and will continue as long as Ron and other ex-gay ministries tell people that their same sex orientation is dysfunctional and the only life that will be happy and rewarding for them is to overcome their same sex attraction and channel their sexual energy into a ānormalā heterosexual marriage.
its wrong….and very cruel…..and we will never be able to number those we have lost through suicide or…..count the cost on the life of those who’ve walked away with the belief they are a failure and that God will no longer love them as long as they are same sex oriented.
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