PFOX, AFA, Liberty Counsel and WorldNetDaily Named Pro-Family Champions

PFOX, AFA, Liberty Counsel and WorldNetDaily Named Pro-Family Champions WND Exclusive Farah named 1 of 10 'pro-family champions' Posted: December 31, 2011 WND Joseph Farah WASHINGTON – Abiding Truth Ministries, a pro-family activist group, today named WND founder Joseph Farah among the nation's top-10 "pro-family champions." "I rate these groups and individuals based upon my own subjective 'Courage Index,'" explained Scott Lively, director of the group. "In my estimation, the following groups/individuals have the most of it and have risked the most in defense of biblical truth on the issue of homosexuality." Besides Lively's own group, the list includes: Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth. Brian Camenker of MassResistance. Joseph Farah of WND. Linda Harvey of Mission: America. Bryan Fisher of American Family Association. Mat Staver, Matt Barber and Judith Reisman of Liberty Counsel. Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality. Regina Griggs of Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays. Bishop E.W. Jackson of Exodus Faith Ministries. Lively is the author of the controversial book, "The Pink Swastika," about the homosexual influence within the Nazi hierarchy. Abiding Truth Ministries' mission is to promote and defend the biblical view of marriage and family through education, training and funding. "I am very grateful to be honored by Abiding Truth Ministries and to be included among such distinguished and courageous luminaries," said Farah. Farah is the only former top newspaper executive in America to form an independent, national online news outlet back in 1997 – the very first of its kind. He is the author or co-author of 13 books that have sold more than 5 million copies. Prior to launching WND.com, he was editor-in-chief of the Sacramento Union, then the oldest daily west of the Mississippi and the original newspaper home of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Herb Cain. Previously he served as editor-in-chief of the daily Glendale News-Press and a group of Southern California weeklies in Burbank and the surrounding communities. He was also executive news editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. In 1991, he founded the Western Journalism Center, a non-profit organization sponsoring investigative reporting and journalism education. Farah took over Oliver North's long-running daily national radio talk show, serving as host for three years. He serves as chief executive officer and editor of WND. Please make a tax-deductible gift to PFOX so we will be able to meet the challenges of 2012. PFOX is an all-volunteer organization -- we are not funded by any church or organization.  We do not rent fancy offices, own any buildings, or get paid salaries.  We do not hire fundraisers, so every cent you donate goes to PFOX. Without you, we could not exist. To donate, please go to http://pfox.org/donate.html Thank you and God for making all of this possible.  Remember – no one does it but PFOX – and you! Blessings, Regina Griggs Executive Director, PFOX

 

 

PFOX and You

 

	December 26, 2011 PFOX and You The year of 2011 has been one of the busiest PFOX has experienced. The battle to bring truth and love to those who struggle with unwanted same sex attractions or gender identity disorder, and the families who love them, has been an uphill battle. Anti-ex-gay activists and their allies in the liberal media have attacked PFOX, people of faith, and families who support equal access and their children being taught the facts about sexual orientation. PFOX started the year off in February by hosting an exhibit booth at the popular and heavily attended CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Washington D.C.  PFOX was one of only two social conservative organizations present at CPAC.  GoProud, a Republican homosexual activist group, also exhibited, so we were able to answer many questions from attendees curious about what GoProud was saying about homosexuality. Without PFOX, conservatives from across the country would have received a one-sided message about homosexual behavior. GoProud members also came to our table, and we gave them our brochures and testimonies of freedom from homosexuality.  Thanks to your donations, we were able to pay for the exhibit booth to hand out our materials and speak to the many people who approached our booth.  While the majority of the political organizations there professed to be conservative, most knew nothing about former homosexuals. But the truth came out, that homosexuality and gender identity are not immutable or in your DNA or genes, and that sexuality is fluid and changeable. PFOX also hosted an exhibit booth at the American Association of Christian Counselors International Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Over 7,000 participants/counselors from all over the world attended this special event. PFOX president Greg Quinlan staffed our booth, answered questions from an ex-gay perspective, and was visible poof that changing sexual orientation is possible. Therapists, social workers, and school counselors approached our exhibit booth with enthusiasm, telling us how appreciative they were to find us because they had been looking for educational homosexual literature for some time.  Our transgender brochures were also a popular resource. At one point, Dr. Mark Yarhouse, who writes about sexual preferences and taught a seminar at the conference, passed our PFOX exhibit booth.  We stopped him and led him back to our booth so he could see our ex-gay brochures, meet former homosexuals, and speak to the spouses of ex-gays.  We told Dr. Yarhouse about the intolerance faced by former homosexuals and urged him to take our brochures.  We also answered questions about the ex-gay community from people who had attended Dr. Yarhouse's session and stopped by our booth.  Also staffing the PFOX booth was Donna Lawlor, the wife of an ex-gay man. Donna is a witness for the fact that marriages and families can be saved through prayer, honesty and hard work. Ex-gays can and do raise beautiful healthy families. This fall, PFOX was one of only 175 organizations invited to the Federal Partners in Bullying Summit held by the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.  Presenting our Bullying Brochure at the conference was ex-gay Christopher Doyle. Please read, copy and distribute our anti-Bullying brochure at http://pfox.org/Prevent-Bullying-at-School.pdf PFOX ended our travels by hosting a booth at the Values Voter Conference in October. The Values Voter Conference in Washington D.C. gave us the opportunity to meet the Republican presidential candidates. PFOX personally provided the candidates with our ex-gay brochures and the opportunity to meet and speak to former homosexuals. We wore our 'Ex-gay Is OK!' buttons throughout the conference, a visible sign that invited people to stop and ask questions. Throughout the year PFOX distributed thousands of educational fliers to public schools and shared our resources with organizations around the country. PFOX issued press releases, participated as guests on radio and television shows, and maintained a web and blog site to share our testimonies nationwide and internationally, judging from the large number of inquiries from around the world. Postage and the costs of producing our newsletter have risen.  The costs of issuing vital press releases, traveling to display our exhibit booth, and renting booth space at national conferences to educate the public have also stretched our budget to the maximum. As the year ends and we look forward to 2012, we need your help more than ever before. Our freedoms are under attack. Equal access, free speech, freedom of religion and the right to self-determination are being taken away, and ex-gays are on the chopping block. Organizations like PFOX are the target. PFOX needs your prayers and financial support. We cannot succeed in getting our message out without advertising, media support, and attending national conferences. We understand how difficult it is during the ongoing recession to donate -- it means giving up something else. How do you place a value on saving our children and being able to bring them the gift of hope? We must provide help to those who are being denied the hope for the change they need; no child should be denied help.  Please make a tax-deductible gift to PFOX as this year ends so we will be able to meet the challenges of 2012. PFOX is an all-volunteer organization -- we are not funded by any church or organization.  We do not rent fancy offices, own any buildings, or get paid salaries.  We do not hire fundraisers, so every cent you donate goes to PFOX. Without you, we could not exist. If you postmark your gift before midnight December 31, 2011, it is tax deductible, whether made by check, cash, or credit card.  To donate, please go to http://pfox.org/donate.html Thank you and God for making all of this possible.  Remember - no one does it but PFOX - and you!           Blessings, Regina Griggs Executive Director PFOX
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Incredibly Shrinking Jesus

Homosexuality and the Incredibly Shrinking Jesus

Ex-homosexual DL Foster, who runs the "Gay Christian Movement Watch" website monitoring that heretical agenda. Defending Christian Truth on homosexuality is unpopular in some quarters, but it is the duty of every Bible-believing Christian. Go to the AFTAH Radio Hour Archive to listen to our interview with Foster.

READ IT ONLINE: http://americansfortruth.com/2011/12/24/homosexuality-and-the-incredibly-shrinking-jesus/#more-10480

Penguins 'pray away the gay' (WND column)

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=379601 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Penguins 'pray away the gay' Exclusive: Matt Barber notes even liberals admit that changing orientation is possible Those bent on justifying the homosexual lifestyle often claim that there are umpteen million – or somewhere thereabouts – species of "gay" animals in the world. This begs a few questions: What? Then how do they procreate? If these animals forgo natural mating behavior to, instead, spend nights hooking up in Yellowstone's public men's rooms, march in critter "gay pride" parades and decorate their nest in fabulous Art Deco pastels, then wouldn't their species cease to exist after just one generation? So much for Darwinian evolution. Even if such nonsense were true, so what? There are plenty of species in the world that eat their young, too. Animals are animals. Does this mean we should act like them? (Besides, show me one species of animal that engages in the same kind of depraved homosexual conduct that can come only from the mind of man, and I'll be impressed.) Still, whenever some animal displays atypical nesting behavior or exhibits quirks that can be remotely called "gay" (We've all seen that dog), moral relativists – who desperately seek to justify objectively immoral behavior – will cry: "Look! Animals are gay, too. It must be natural!" So, it's not surprising that liberals have their feathers in a ruffle – that they're egg-cited over recent news that another pair of same-sex penguins has flown the "gay" coop. (I wrote about a second pair in 2009). Famous "gay" penguins Buddy and Pedro from the Toronto Zoo are the latest chirpy birds with happy feet to begin eyeballing chicks. They're now "ex-gay" penguins. (Read about Buddy and Pedro's "reparative therapy.") I know. For most of us this elicits little more than a chuckle. Yet there are those who actually believe this twaddle. Unfortunately, this is all part of liberals' desperate attempt to dredge up some natural, biological rationalization – of which science has found none – to validate demonstrably unnatural behavior. That's why we see such visceral hatred on the left for the ex-gay community. From a political and legal standpoint, it's strategically critical that these same liberals undermine and marginalize the very real-life experiences of untold thousands of former homosexuals. This mean-spiritedness represents a profound lack of respect for other people's "right to choose." Their favorite dig is: "You can't pray away the gay." Once you've self-identified as – or been labeled – "gay," you're stuck with it, you see. Ironically, these same liberals will suggest with a straight face (no pun intended) that something that is innate – a person's biological sex – can change. If you're a man who, today, feels like a woman, why then, snippity-snip and voila! You're a woman. Many men and women with unwanted same-sex attractions have exercised sexual self-determination and have chosen to leave the homosexual lifestyle. As we make continuing advances in the science of human sexuality, it has become clear that "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" are largely fluid, subjectively determined classifications. As to what may drive a person's "sexual orientation" and/or sexual appetites, the highly liberal American Psychological Association (APA) has concluded: "Many [scientists] think that nature and nurture both play complex roles." The scientifically reinforced fluidity of "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" may help to explain why, as even the liberal APA has admitted, thousands (if not millions) of people have "altered their sexual orientation" with "varying degrees of satisfaction and varying perceptions of success." It is no longer open for serious debate. Despite tremendous political pressure to find otherwise, even the left-leaning APA has been forced to acknowledge that for people with unwanted same-sex attractions, change is possible. It's not always easy, but change is undeniably and conclusively possible. Recently, the most comprehensive study ever done on the ex-gay phenomenon was released in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. In the study, researchers concluded that, for many who desire to leave the homosexual lifestyle, "change does indeed occur, although not for everyone." Some of the study's conclusions: Success: Conversion: 23 percent of the sample reported substantial reductions in homosexual attraction and subsequent conversion to heterosexual attractions and functioning. Success: Chastity: 30 percent reported that homosexual attraction was still present, but only incidentally or in a way that did not seem to bring distress, allowing them to live contentedly without overt sexual activity. Continuing: 16 percent reported modest decreases in homosexual attraction, but were not satisfied with their degree of change and remained committed to the change process. Non-response: 7 percent reported no significant sexual orientation change; they had not given up on the change process, but some were confused or conflicted about which direction to turn next. Failure: Confused: 5 percent reported no significant sexual orientation change, and had given up on the change process, but without yet embracing a gay identity. Failure: Gay identity: 20 percent had given up on the change process and embraced a gay identity. Most importantly, the study determined that, for those who struggle with same-sex attraction and wish to change, "some people can indeed move from homosexuality to heterosexuality, and that harm is unlikely to result from such efforts." But that's people. Penguins? They're probably just "bisexual" to begin with. Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as vice president of Liberty Counsel Action. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)

 

Voter Guide for Republican Presidential Candidates

 

 

Download the 2012 Presidential Voter Guide today! December 21, 2011   The first contests in the race for the Republican nomination are just around the corner. To better inform you, we looked beyond the rhetoric to the candidates' actual records on the issues important to families. This voter guide outlines candidate stances on issues that are important to the family. We researched the candidates' statements and votes on the ten issues that best give voters an understanding on if the candidates match your values. Please use this resource as you think about who you would like to see be the nominee to challenge President Barack Obama. Download the free guide and be sure to share this resource with your friends and family before the 2012 primary season begins next month. A values voter is an informed voter. Sincerely, Tony Perkins President P.S. Please forward this to your friends, family, and fellow church members. FRC Action: 801 G Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001

 

 

The Wrong Kind of Export - Obama Imposes Gay Rights on the World

 

Everyone,

 

Chuck Colson explains how the Obama administration promoting "gay rights" globally will hurt America and Christianity in the long run

http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/18441#.TvHFENqNgSw.email

 

Parent Talk: Home for the Holidays

 

	December 23, 2011 Parent Talk: Home for the Holidays Home for Christmas 2011 My husband and I will be celebrating at home with our 4 dogs this year. All of our married children are now living out of state and for the first time we won't have the opportunity to see our grandchildren for Christmas. We are looking forward to a visit from our youngest son and grand dogs after the holidays. As children grow up and move away, we find our lives change also and time with family is precious. The Visitor For many of our readers, having a child or loved one bring home a gay friend or partner can be a challenge. I've received calls from anxious families asking what to do if a gay loved one wants to bring home a partner and how should they respond. There are no magic answers, but I can offer some advice and a few guidelines: Make time to discuss with your spouse what your expectations are and ways you can support each other during the visit. Discuss and decide what you are comfortable with in respect to preparing children, family members, and friends. Before addressing anyone about a loved one's life style, discuss with him or her what their thoughts are and find a place of comfort for all. Address sleeping arrangements. You wouldn't let opposite-sex friends share a room.  Discuss how to introduce the partner and what your comfort zone and house rules are. Plan to attend events, do some site seeing, play games, watch movies, and ask the partner what they enjoy doing during the holidays. Try to avoid the subject of SSA. You can ask how they met and simple questions you'd ask any guest. If you freeze or ask a question that sparks a negative reaction you can say I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend. This is new to us and we are trying to understand. During your loved one's visit, there will be times when feel like you're on shaky ground and that's ok. It's new to them also, so they may be on edge as well. Treat this as an opportunity to learn about the person your loved one cares for. Ben's Story As a volunteer for the Humane Society, last year I took in a stray black lab that was very ill. I braved the beginning of a heavy snow, driving 35 miles to rescue Ben. The next morning, my husband and I decided Ben's life was in danger so we made the long trip knowing we were expecting 10 inches of snow to get Ben to the vet. We were told that Ben had little chance of surviving. He was 30 lbs. under weight, had pneumonia, heartworm disease, and complications caused by lack of proper medical care.   We believed there was something special about Ben--his gentle spirit and willingness to please. So we pursued treatment. God intervened, and after 6 months of treatment, Ben is a healthy, happy dog and we decided to adopt him. On one of Ben's follow-up visits to the vet for a check-up, I noticed a flier seeking dogs to train to become Therapy Dogs to be used in the local area. My calendar already on overload, so why not add yet another item to the list?   Ben, my husband, and I attended the testing for the Therapy Dog and AKC Good Citizen program. Ben passed all of the tests. Somewhere in Ben's past, he had received professional training. Ben qualified and became a licensed Therapy Dog and AKC Good Citizen. Ben and I visit elementary schools that have a special reading program for children and a program for special needs children. On Mondays, we visit assisted living facilities. The seniors enjoy having a dog come to visit and enjoy talking about their former pets.   This past week, God brought me unexpected joy--a reminder that there are beautiful moments in life if we keep our eyes open. Ben and I were attending a special reading class when a little boy came over and sat on the floor next to Ben. As though Ben knew this child needed a little love, Ben put his head in the child's lap. The little boy was so excited he read his entire book to Ben.   Later that day, Ben and I visited with the special needs children. One little boy is autistic. Shane never speaks and yet he always wants to pet Ben. Last week, Shane would walk around the room, then come back to pet Ben. I was watching and smiling at Shane as he kept coming back to pet Ben. Then Shane shocked us all. He sat down by Ben and hugged Ben repeatedly and then gave me a high five! This is major progress for a child who doesn't communicate. This made my day--a special gift from God. While many of us are concerned and worried about our gay loved one, families like Shane's have not given up hope and their walk is much more difficult than ours. Ben will continue to visit with Shane on Tuesday afternoons and we believe Shane will continue to respond to Ben. Ben's photo taken after his visit with Shane. Ben seems quite proud. Proverbs 12:10 "A righteous man cares for his animals."   Bringing joy to others is our greatest gift. At this time of the year, we also need to remember to give thanks to God for his precious gift--His Son, Jesus Christ.   Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. Regina   Remember, No one does it but PFOX - and you, please send your gift today to http://pfox.org/donate.html     To donate online go to www.pfox.org
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