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PFLAG and Clergy to Greet ‘Ex-Gay’ Conference

Filed Under Gay Events, Religion 

June 7th PFLAG Event to Send Message that Parents Love Their LGBT Children “Just the Way They Are”

PFLAG NewsWhat: Parents, family members, clergy and allies from across the Gulf Coast region will greet attendees entering the Orlando, Florida “Love Won Out” conference. The conference, organized by the American Family Association, endorses so-called “reparative therapy” for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

Members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will greet attendees with donuts, coffee and information on embracing lesbian and gay loved ones.

Who: PFLAG parents will be joined by supportive members of the clergy from around Orlando, as well as PFLAG National executive director Jody M. Huckaby and Lance Helms, Gulf Coast Regional Director for PFLAG.

Why: So-called “ex-gay ministries,” such as “Love Won Out,” use out-moded medical theories and radical religious beliefs to justify trying to alter gay and lesbian people’s natural sexual orientation. In 1990, the American Psychological Association (APA) stated that scientific evidence does not show that conversion therapy works and that it can do more harm than good.

When: Saturday, June 7, 2008; 7am

Where: First Presbyterian Church, 106 E. Church Street, Orlando, FL 32801

Source: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)

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