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Straight to Jesus - Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (Paperback)
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Straight to Jesus - Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (Paperback)
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Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries
in an attempt to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this
fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay movement, Tanya Erzen
focuses on the everyday lives of men and women at New Hope
Ministry, a residential ex-gay program, over the course of several
years. "Straight to Jesus" traces the stories of people who have
renounced long-term relationships and moved from other countries
out of a conviction that the conservative Christian beliefs of
their upbringing and their own same-sex desires are irreconcilable.
Rather than definitively changing from homosexual to heterosexual,
the participants experience a conversion that is both sexual and
religious as born-again evangelical Christians. At New Hope, they
maintain a personal relationship with Jesus and build new forms of
kinship and belonging. By becoming what they call 'new creations',
these men and women testify to religious transformation rather than
changes in sexual desire or behavior. "Straight to Jesus" exposes
how the Christian Right attempts to repudiate gay identity and
political rights by using the ex-gay movement as evidence that
'change is possible'. Instead, Erzen reveals, the realities of the
lives she examines actually undermine this anti-gay strategy.
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