{"id":1246,"date":"2011-10-15T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2011\/10\/15\/wherein-i-remind-you-that-qex-gaysq-dont-exist\/"},"modified":"2011-10-15T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:31:54","slug":"wherein-i-remind-you-that-qex-gaysq-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-remind-you-that-qex-gaysq-dont-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I remind you that &#8220;ex-gays&#8221; don&#8217;t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 10\/15\/2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, anyone tells you that gays can change themselves, because we just choose this life, remind them that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exgaywatch.com\/wp\/2011\/10\/former-ex-gay-leader-smid-can-no-longer-condemn-gays\/\">that is hateful, harmful and a lie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The former leader of Exodus International\u2019s oldest ministry says you can\u2019t repent of homosexuality \u2014 and he now publicly admits he is homosexual himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>John Smid, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exgaywatch.com\/wp\/2008\/03\/john-smid-president-of-troubled-love-in-action-resigns\/\">resigned<\/a> as Executive Director of Love in Action in 2008, has made his strongest statements yet disavowing the message he preached for years as the head of a ministry that promised gays they could change. Writing on the website of his new ministry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracerivers.com\/gays-repent\/\">Grace Rivers<\/a>, Smid says being homosexual (he generally uses this rather clinical term rather than \u201cgay\u201d) is an intrinsic part of a person\u2019s being, not a behaviour he can repent from<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I also want to reiterate here that the transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a change of sexual orientation. Actually I\u2019ve never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it may be something we all wish for at some point, we can&#8217;t change who we are.\u00a0 And while sexuality to some degree is fluid, there is nothing to repent, nothing wrong and nothing to be ashamed of.\u00a0 You love who you love.<\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>The King of Spades<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 10\/15\/2011 Just a reminder, anyone tells you that gays can change themselves, because we just choose this life, remind them that that is hateful, harmful and a lie: The former leader of Exodus International\u2019s oldest ministry says you can\u2019t repent of homosexuality \u2014 and he now publicly admits he is homosexual himself. \u00a0 John Smid, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}