Yiannopoulos hopes “people will support and pray for me,” personally and professionally, as he helps “rehabilitate” the much-maligned concept known as conversion therapy. (That process “does work,” he says, “albeit not for everybody.”) Another goal is advocating for pro-life causes, because he calls abortion “the pre-eminent moral horror in human history.”
Church Leaders Share Their Experiences With SSA
The ChurchLeaders podcast series “LGBTQ and the Church” explores the topic of same-sex attraction (SSA) with several guests sharing that their ongoing attraction to the same sex has not disappeared over time. Rather, God has used it to refine them.
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Ed Shaw, a pastor in Bristol, England, and director of the ministry, Living Out, shared insights based on his experience as a church leader and as someone who experiences an attraction to the same sex. “I am in most ways no different to any other pastor,” said Shaw. “I am someone who is struggling with patterns of sin in my life. I’m usually being more public and open and honest about them than many pastors are.”
Rachel Gilson, author of “Born Again This Way,” says even after 17 years, her same-sex attraction hasn’t disappeared. Her book, she says, emerged from “my own years of reading the Bible, making mistakes, reading the Bible, being in community, and just trying to figure out not just how can we survive as disciples with same-sex attraction, but how can we actually thrive in Christ?”
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