One of the most marginalized and attacked groups of people includes those who are desperate to overcome unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors, and gender confusion. They should not be deprived of seeking professional Christian counseling. We know many people who have been freed from these shackles — who have experienced real and lasting change. However, the “Equality Act” will TARGET LIFESAVING COUNSELING and prevent people from finding freedom.

Now that the Republican majority has shrunk to just one person in the U.S. House, this is one of the most serious threats to our freedom today. Send urgent faxes to tell Congress to VOTE NO on the “EQUALITY ACT” — HR 15! — Your Faith & Liberty team

In our Washington, D.C., Ministry Center we’ve had the privilege to host leaders of the CHANGED Movement who want to stop HR 15. Change is what HR 15 wants to criminalize. We’ll let one of our friends tell her own story:

“I am a former lesbian who went through SOCE [sexual orientation change efforts] counseling, and my life is proof that SOCE counseling can and does work for individuals struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors or identity.

“I was sexually abused as a child and experienced tremendous trauma from that abuse. … At the tender age of 16, I was already involved in a same-sex relationship. … My therapist was adamant that I was a lesbian, that I was born a lesbian, that I would always be a lesbian and that I should just accept and embrace it because there was nothing that I could do about it.”

When she was 24, “my girlfriend at the time told me that she had heard of this thing called SOCE counseling and that she wanted to start trying it. This was the first time in my life that I had ever heard anyone even mention that change was possible. … I have been changed and reformed from that lifestyle for 23 years now.”

But the “Equality Act” would make this counseling illegal. It would erase the hope and help that this woman found. It would make a professional counselor, or even a pastor, an outlaw if they dared to spread hope and freedom in Christ. Joe Biden announced he is pushing this bill hard!

This bill will even make sharing their own personal testimony — illegal! That's why we’re asking you to act now by faxing Congress to oppose this outrageous bill.

Since California passed the first change-counseling ban against helping people overcome unwanted same-sex attractions, members of our team have fought to keep the government out of the counseling room.

One person who was helped testified under oath about his own struggle:

“When I was 5 years old, I was sexually molested by a 16-year-old high school boy who was also my neighbor. … I had traumatic experiences in perceiving and feeling that I was not really a male child. … I found myself sexually attracted to men because of my earlier abuse. … I carried a feeling of immense and crushing shame for my same-sex attractions.”

He said he “became clinically depressed twice, dealt with tremendous anxiety, experienced obsessive-compulsive disorder and knew in my heart that I was very confused about my sexual orientation and gender identity. In the latter years of this 20-year period, I found a course of treatment that truly helped me resolve the issues I had been experiencing.”

But the counseling that saved this man’s life will be banned by the Equality Act. Tell Congress to VOTE NO on the EQUALITY ACT.

Counseling is a lot like a GPS map system. You tell the counselor where you want to go, and the counselor helps you reach that destination. But the Equality Act bans one view of counseling — the Christian view. Years of study show that 85-plus percent of young people who experience gender confusion resolve naturally without any intervention at all. But the dictatorial Equality Act seeks to cement gender confusion, and no one can object.

Our hearts break to think this lifesaving counsel could be banned — for everyone, including pastors and church counselors.

Our Faith & Liberty team is working diligently to preserve religious freedom. We opened our Ministry Center for ex-LGBTQ advocates, and we are hosting Bible studies on a daily basis.

When you support Faith & Liberty, you help many other ministries have an impact in D.C. We seek to serve everyone we can with the resources God, and you, have provided. 

Remember, “we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast” (see Heb. 6:18-19). Our hope is never dependent on the whims of a politician, and our laws should reflect that!

Peggy Nienaber, Senior Vice President
Mat Staver, Chairman
Rev. Gregory Cox, Senior Pastor

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