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Founder of first ‘ex-gay’ ministry dies, and the tributes are pouring in

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Memorial tributes are pouring in for  Frank Worthen , a faithful Christian pioneer who formed the first “ex-gay” ministry the United States in 1973, the same year “gay” militants pressured the American Psychiatric Association into  “normalizing” homosexuality . Worthen’s motto for ministry was simple: “Freedom from homosexuality through Jesus Christ .” He passed away February 11 at age 87. Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Anita, and his stepson. Godly Legacy "A great man has gone to God 's great reward. Frank Worthen, who is considered to be the father of the ex-gay movement , went to be with his greatest love, Jesus, this morning," said  David Kyle Foster , a former homosexual and  ex-male prostitute  himself. Foster, as the founder of  Mastering Life Ministries  and  Pure Passion TV , is one of many Christians continuing Worthen’s legacy in reaching out to “sexually broken” people across the world. Worthen’s father died when he was just 13. He look

Did the Southern Baptist Church really denounce reparative therapy for homosexuals?

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Both the Evangelical and homosexual communities took to social media today to debate a report from Religion News Service claiming that Southern Baptist leader Dr. Russell Moore publicly denounced sexual orientation change therapy at the denomination’s conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality and the Future of Marriage” this week. According to RNS, Moore told a group of reporters at a press breakfast that reparative therapies aimed at ridding patients of unwanted same-sex attraction are “severely counterproductive.” “There were utopian ideas about reparative therapy that frankly weren’t unique to evangelicalism,” Moore said. “That was something that came along in the 1970s and 1980s about the power of psychotherapy to do all sorts of things that we have a more nuanced views about now.” Instead of depending on psychologists for a cure for same-sex attraction, Moore suggested that people with homosexual inclinations look to Christ and the Gospel for the strength to withstand