{"id":14945,"date":"2011-11-15T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14945"},"modified":"2011-11-15T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:03:04","slug":"another-church-in-trouble-for-helping-those-with-unwanted-same-sex-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-church-in-trouble-for-helping-those-with-unwanted-same-sex-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Another church in trouble for helping those with unwanted same-sex attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A church<\/a> which offers to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction is being criticised by gay groups because people, apparently, are born gay.<\/em><\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gay rights campaigners have condemned a church for running sessions to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.<\/p>\n

The Frontline Church in Liverpool claims homosexuality is caused by ‘pain in childhood’ and boasts it’s L.I.F.E sessions have ‘succeeded’ with some congregation members.<\/p>\n

[\u2026\u2026.]<\/p>\n

The national Lesbian and Gay Foundation’s Andrew Gilliver said: ‘The issues about “childhood pain” are nonsense.<\/p>\n

‘The pain is often caused by people who don’t understand what they’re going through.<\/p>\n

‘We are born gay, but we learn prejudice. This is Dark Ages stuff.’<\/p>\n

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Someone should tell Chris Birch, a rugby player who woke up after a stroke and decided he was gay,<\/a> that it\u2019s impossible because, to be gay, you have to be born<\/em> gay.<\/p>\n

When 19-stone rugby player Chris Birch suffered a stroke during a freak training accident, his family feared it would be a life-changing injury.<\/p>\n

Yet while his recovery certainly brought about a transformation, it seems to have been in a way no one could have expected.<\/p>\n

For when he regained consciousness, the 26-year-old \u2013 who was engaged to his girlfriend \u2013 claimed he had become gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A church which offers to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction is being criticised by gay groups because people, apparently, are born gay. From here: Gay rights campaigners have condemned a church for running sessions to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[775,2168],"class_list":["post-14945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-frontline-church","tag-homosexuality-and-the-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}