I'm going to ex-gay group therapy. I can't wait!

[boiseboy]

Also, thanks to whoever posted questions. I plan to use a lot of these. I'm going thursday so hopefully I'll have an update by friday or saturday, most likely when i finish that portion of my paper.

 

[Paws]

This thread is so awesome that I can't think of any question right now

 

[Yohan1989]

Oh, that's interesting. No, MORE than interesting!

I've always suspected the King James translation. Who knows whether he gave some stipulations to the translators? Perhaps the translators themselves had an agenda of some kind?

This is actually the first I've heard this - that the original Aramaic book was NOT homophobic. Is there a link to this?

Well yes there is a link to it, just dont know where. LOL

The only thing that people do is that they mistake what they interpret about the law of Moses. It's better to understand the history in those particular verse before saying what it is about because some people just assume that God dont accept gays. I don’t see nothing homophobic about God nor the bible. As far as myself, I too was ex-gay till I accepted myself again. I question if the bible is real or not and why I am gay. So I did my research, till I found a very interesting stuff that pretty much suprise me. Although my ethnicity is Assyrian, so everyone in my family speak fluent neo-Aramaic. But come to find out that most version are translated from the Aramaic bible because the Greek version was translated from the Aramaic but not 100% like the Aramaic bible.

You wouldn’t see the word hell in there either because there is no such thing. lol which shows that everyone has salvation and everyone will go to Heaven except that some people will have some different level of punishment but not a horrible punishment like hell fire or none of these things. Just a process to get back with God till they get into heaven: that is the punishment. Oh, to add something. The KJV was re-edit like three or four times. The word homosexual was added in there in the 1800s (if I‘m not mistaken)? So there have to be some kind of agenda here.

 

[hotdog1846]

I feel you're trying to turn this thread into another drama filled shit fest.


Anyways, while I don't need to explain anything to you, I will.
We have a seperate building that is used for bible studies and we rent classrooms to programs.
We have alcoholics anon. on mondays and fridays, a sex addict class one tuesdays, ex-gay therapy (which is fairly new) on thursdays.

So pretty much anyone can have a class if they have the money for it.
And pretty much every day is a great day to cruise for guys.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. No shitfest was intended, but a challenge was.

My next challenge to put out there is: Ask, not the ex-gay counselor, but your pastor if you'll be permitted to start a PFLAG chapter meeting at your church, and see what kind of response you get.

Who knows, perhaps the answer will be "yes" and perhaps some people will be helped by the support rather than just us all having an online snark-fest about something we all know is full of shit.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

Well, I just hope you're planning to do this in the spirit of scientific enquiry, not political confrontation. Otherwise you won't learn very much.

Your main job as a psychologist should be to be a neutral observer and record what you see as objectively as you can. Any conclusions you draw should be based on the data you gather (which of course can include printed sources). Opinions you already have going in are irrelevant.

I also think it would be a lot more interesting just to let their meeting unfold the way it usually would. If you start asking a lot of loaded questions, you're not going to be seeing what really goes on.

In other words -- look, listen, and don't say very much.

PS Same goes for an interview. Your questions should be designed to draw him out on what he thinks, not put words in his mouth or start a political debate.

 

[Darkflower]

Boisie, what ever happened with this? If you don't mind my asking . . .

 

[jdbadboy]

See you bitches later!
Just kidding, I'm actually not going for me personally.

I have an assignment in my psychology course where i was given a list of topics I could do. Sexuality was a catergory, and ex-gay therapy was a topic i could do.

So I'm going to my church's ex-gay therapy class (haha) and I'm going to ask the speaker questions. Have any questions?

Not that I want you all to do my homework for me, but in case you've ever had a question you've wanted to ask an ex-gay therapist, nows your chance. I'll ask him when I interview him, and I'll post later in the thread what he has to say.


I'm already going to ask him about failure/success rate, I don't expect him to tell the truth either.

Why do you belong to a church that has an ex-gay therapy class?

 

[Darkflower]

Why do you belong to a church that has an ex-gay therapy class?

He answers that somewhere in the thread. Read the whole thing. It's actually a really good thread. Informative. And a fascinating bit of research, sounds like.

 

[Telstra]

Ask them how many cocks did they suck. ??

 

[luckah]

Ask him what really is his personal satisfaction (apart the salary!) in "changing" his "patients" so that they feel bad for just being how God created them!

 

[freefall]

"If I strip off now, would you get turned on?"

 

[boiseboy]

Whoa, totally forgot to post the paper!

I'll make sure to do it tonight. Thanks to the person who bumped this thread up!

 

[Royal Heart]

Anticipation!