Hat tip to Just Out blog.
CNN is scooped again.
Palin's church promotes converting gays:
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s church, Wasilla Bible Church, is promoting a Focus on the Family “Love Won Out” conference in Anchorage. The conference appears to be a training for members of congregations which are not accepting of LGBTQ people and who wish to ‘minister’ to them. Attendees are told that “at the Love Won Out conference, you’ll hear from nationally known experts who have firsthand experience with the seldom-told side of the homosexual issue.”
Here is page 3 from the August 31, 2008 flyer from Palin's church:
What is Love Won Out?
Focus on the Family's Love Won Out ministry exhorts and equips the church to respond in a Christ-like way to the issue of homosexuality. And to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions, we offer the Gospel hope that these desires can be overcome.
By offering conferences, education, counseling and research, the Love Won Out team strives to uphold God's design for sexuality in a way that transforms lives.
Whether you're a parent, friend, family member or ministry leader who wants to lovingly reach out with uncompromised faith -- in compassion and grace -- to a loved one who deals with homosexuality, Love Won Out has the resources to help.
To get updates from Love Won Out, request to be be put on our email list by sending an email to lovewonout@fotf.org.
Upcoming Conferences
Come to Anchorage!
Focus on the Family's next Love Won Out conference is scheduled for Sept. 13 in Anchorage, Alaska. Please call 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459) for more information, or sign-up online using our secure registration process.
Male homosexuality is like any other sexual sin or temptation that a person may struggle with. Given that God works with us as individuals, there is no "formula" for the change process, nor is there typically instant freedom. Not surprisingly, each person’s path to liberty will be different.
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The good news is that homosexual attractions and temptations do change, dissipate and even disappear for many men – as they cooperate with God in the process of becoming more like Jesus.
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God is powerful enough to change our sinful and self-centered desires, to give us the motivation to change, and to empower our wills to stay committed to Him.
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Paul writes to the Corinthians to remind them that some of them used to be caught in homosexual behavior, but that they have been washed – cleansed and forgiven of past sins; sanctified – cooperating with God in the transformation process; and justified – no longer under condemnation for sin (I Cor. 6:9-11). And just as the men of Corinth found freedom from homosexuality, so, too, are many men today finding freedom and lasting change in their lives.
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Even more recently in 2007, a landmark study was published by Drs. Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse which concluded that it is possible for homosexuals to change their physical attractions and that such efforts to bring about change do not appear to be psychologically harmful.
These people are just ignorant, hateful zealots. And Sarah Palin is one of them.