Truth Wins Out, a representative of the Metropolitan Community Church, a former “ex-gay,” and local GLBT groups conducted a prayer vigil, protest and discussion forum in conjunction with Focus on the Family’s ex-gay road show, titled “Love Won Out,” in San Jose, Calif.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that 700 people attended the ex-gay event. About 25 people protested outside.
Sadly, some attendees of “Love Won Out” sought to learn about gay people, not from actual gay people who stood peacefully nearby, but from Focus on the Family speakers who wage political and cultural warfare against a so-called gay “lifestyle”:
Anthony Jones, a church minister from the Pearly Grove Baptist Church in Fresno, said he came to learn to improve his ministry.
“I’m hoping to learn approaches on how to minister to homosexuals,” he said, “to know and understand what their lifestyle is.”
“We’re not saying you’re going to hell for being a homosexual,” he said. “We want to embrace them and love them but understand the sin of same-sex attraction.”
Buffy of The Gaytheist Agenda provides a detailed first-hand account and pictures of the protest and discussion forum. Joe.My.God has an overview with reader comments.
Truth Wins Out will air video from the events later this week.
UPDATE: Truth Wins Out posted the following video from the event:
Tags: antigay, event, Focus on the Family, News, protest, Truth Wins OutRelated posts
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
I was brave to say LGBT are also created by the God. And LGBT can also have strong belief and they also need it. I know many LGBT at Bimingle.com who are chirstian with strong belief to live on earth. Trying to have their own life, love, family….
Comment by qingxon8 — April 15, 2008 @ 4:48 am
The “Ministers” running that church event claim to “love” us.
They’d never hurt us, they say.
But as Wayne Besen knows, my former partner, Beecher Goodwin, on SSI for mental illness, lives with a straight conservative family in Surprise Arizona.
Beecher’s “friends”, Kathryn & Stephen, have used his disabilities as a control device to stop Beecher from living a gay life or from having gay friends.
Beecher’s “born again” siblings, who openly say they don’t want him to be gay, have supported and participated in this shameful scam.
People don’t realize how important Wayne Besen’s work is.
Many of us don’t realize the insidious, evil things these ex-gay ministries do in the dark.
We MUST stand up to them and stop them, so that what happened to Beecher cannot
happen to others.
Comment by David Alexander Nahmod — April 17, 2008 @ 12:04 am