Ex-Gay No Way

“To those left with the question, Why did he do it?” Thus begins another suicide letter by a gay man who believed with all his heart that Christianity and homosexuality cannot co-exist in the same person.

He was told this lie by people who often call themselves, “Ex-Gays” and they are part of a cult-like, 30 year-old movement whose latest title of faux respectability is “Reparative Therapy.” No matter what psychological dressings they hang on their outward identity, this fundamentalist extremity of Christianity always has the same agenda: Because God has told them that homosexuality is a sickness and a sin — on this alone — the movement has assumed that flipping from gay to straight is changeable and change-worthy, despite decades of psycho/sexual research to the contrary.

Jallen Rix, a young Southern Baptist, joined an ex-gay ministry when he discovered his same-sex attractions. Although the ministry did not make him heterosexual, it did manage to damage and destroy any sense of stability and self-esteem. This book is Dr Rix’s journey, not only through the ex-gay world and recovery from it, but also his discoveries of how many of the elements used in these oppressive environments are many of the same damaging tactics used widespread in power-abusive religious organizations today.

Link: Ex-Gay No Way by Jallen Rix at Amazon.com
Link: Ex-Gay No Way by Jallen Rix at Amazon.co.uk