VICE did a documentary on “gay conversion therapy”
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http://www.vice.com/en_ca/video/gay-conversion-therapy-part-1-195
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http://www.vice.com/en_ca/video/gay-conversion-therapy-part-1-195
Being gay is just as healthy and normal as being straight.1 But amongst some subcultures in America, it’s commonplace to believe otherwise. But even within mainstream culture, straight folks don’t do a very good job of really thinking about the violence, harm and ridicule that gay folks face. Similarly so for the lack of understanding…
Alliance Church rules, like those of other evangelical denominations, strongly oppose homosexual relationships, describing them as the “basest form of sinful conduct.” The Tyee 2012 Vancouver Sun 2007
One problem with the Alliance Church is that it’s really far-reaching. They have a powerful network in Canada, but also world-wide …
The excerpt below is an interesting example of how conservatism has cemented the doctrine of the Alliance Church. Any attempt to make modern day Alliance Church theology consider the moral possibility of women clergy, or gay clergy, is considered by Foster, to be “casuistry,” “scripture-twisting” and an “agenda hermeneutics.” And it’s no wonder, since gay…
There is a movement in the US to ban conversion therapy…
I have been reflecting on this idea that we should hate the sin, not the sinner…