We are here, we exist, say ex-LGBT Christians – Staff writer for Christian Today
Members of the ex-LGBT community gathered in London over the weekend to share powerful testimonies about how they have been changed by the love of God.
The Unashamed event by X-Outloud, a project of Core Issues Trust, brought together Christians from Europe and the US who used to be LGBT but who are now embracing their God-gien gender and happily seeking opposite-sex relationships, marriage and family.
They shared moving accounts of being healed not only from unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria, but also from porn addiction, drug abuse and mental health issues like depression and suicidal thoughts.
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They included Liam Hayden, from the UK, who said it was professional counselling that allowed him to work through the root causes of his unwanted homosexuality and stop him from taking his own life two years ago.
“Through the counselling and through understanding where the problem came from, I was able to then bring those issues before God and I was then able to receive healing from it and let it go to God … Today I am here, I’m still living, it hasn’t harmed me.”
Unashamed was held as UK governments move closer to banning so-called conversion therapy.
Many of the speakers, including Hayden, defended the freedom to seek out help.
“If someone wants to take that away from me, then you might as well have come into my room and pushed me out the window that day,” he said.
“If shame was removed by God and through counselling, if my traumas have been healed so greatly, then does this prove that I was harmed, that I was a victim? Or that I am healed and am a victor?”
The UK government has given assurances that the conversion therapy ban will not include prayer, but some campaigners are pushing for this to be included as well.
