Ex-Gays & Former Trans Forbidden From Preaching Truth  

SCOTUS is leaning against change counseling bans

LGBTQ advocates want everyone to believe that people can be born in the wrong body. Sometimes they argue that “orientation” is hard-wired at birth. They discount those who have experienced change and real freedom.

But as the number of “ex-gays” and detransitioners (people who left the “trans” lifestyle) skyrocket, the LGBTQ’s claims ring hollow. So, they have tried to silence anyone from leaving the LGBTQ cult by banning the lifesaving counseling that has brought so many out of that broken delusion.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar. About 110 cities, counties, and states have banned Christian counseling for gender dysphoria and unwanted unnatural attractions. Liberty Counsel struck down 23 of those bans, freeing clients and counselors in Georgia, Alabama and Florida to seek and receive this lifesaving counseling. But 87 bans remain on the books. Liberty Counsel has filed briefs in this case, and we need your help to knock down every restriction. I believe the Court will strike down Colorado’s law. But we will then have to fight against every blue government that refuses to comply with the decision!

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Lives saved, but the LGBTQ cult wants them silenced

Each of the people below experienced freedom from the LGBTQ lifestyle, and they have ministries to help others escape the LGBTQ trap. But each of these ministries could be banned, if the Rainbow Cult gets its way.

Drew Barryessa lived as a homosexual man for years, until Christ changed his heart. Now Drew has been married for 20 years and has three beautiful daughters and a life that he “never would have had if the help I found would have been withheld from me.”   

Drew is now a “living letter” to spread the gospel and runs “A Living Letter Ministries” to help others leave the gender-queer cult.

Tom and Donna Cole each suffered mental, physical, and sexual abuse as children, causing them to reject their roles as male and female.

Donna had watched as her mother was beaten by every man she married, one of whom would go on to s*xually molest young Donna. Donna reacted by rejecting what she perceived to be the “weakness” of femininity and lived as a lesbian for years. But Donna had a vision from God one day when a family member took her to church. She instantly rejected her lesbian lifestyle but needed years of therapy to be free of the LGBTQ cult.

Tom’s mother rarely missed an opportunity to tell her son that she had wanted a girl. A smaller boy, and more interested in the arts than contact sports, Tom was frequently called a “sissy” and “fag” by older neighborhood boys, one of whom would go on to s*xually molest Tom and lead him into a homosexual lifestyle. A friend at work invited Tom to church, and the message he heard that day changed his life. He spent the next couple years in therapy healing the wounds that had led him astray.

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Donna and Tom met in a prayer group, and later married. They’ve been together for 40 years, have four grown children, seven grandchildren, and a ministry called “Pure Heart Ministries” designed to help others escape the “alternative lifestyle” trap.

Elizabeth Woning was a lifelong tomboy who thought she had been “born gay” and that God had created her that way. But while studying the Scriptures, Elizabeth realized she could not justify her false belief. She opened herself to God’s love and acknowledged that she had rejected herself as a woman. Prayer, pastoral care, and counseling pulled Elizabeth out of the LGBTQ trap. Her desires changed, and she fell in love with the man who became her husband in 2005. Today, Elizabeth leads “CHANGED Movement,” which helps others recover from LGBTQ indoctrination.

Walt Heyer was the victim of childhood s*xual abuse by an uncle. In addition, his grandmother regularly clothed young Walt in frilly girl’s dresses, leaving him in a state of confusion for much of his adult life. The unresolved childhood traumas bled out into his life in the forms of severe depression, risky behaviors, alcoholism, and later a “sex change” surgery. But that surgery only caused more misery in Walt’s life. Christian counseling saved Walt’s life, and he has now lived as a happily married man for over 40 years. Walt now focuses on helping others escape the transgender trap.

There are so many other testimonies like the ones above. But the LGBTQ crowd does not want these stories told, nor do they want any of the others still imprisoned in the genderless trap to escape. But banning Christian Change Counseling is clear viewpoint discrimination. As we proved with our 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court victory in Shurtleff v. Boston, governments cannot ban a viewpoint simply because it is Christian.

We have high hopes for the Chiles case. The Justices questions and comments in oral arguments this week give me a great deal of hope that change counseling bans will be overturned.

Justice takes time. It has taken us nearly 13 years to get this issue before the High Court. We need your help — not just to finish the work in this current Supreme Court case but also to prepare us for the next round of the battle, forcing reluctant leftist cities, counties, and states to comply. We can only do this important work with your direct financial support. Every donation made today, even recurring monthly donations, will be DOUBLED in impact by a special Challenge Grant.

Help us free the captives from the LGBTQ’s Rainbow Cult!

Tom Cole’s life began to change because a friend from work had been praying for him. Can I ask you to join me in praying for all those still lost in the Rainbow Cult’s transgender trap?

“You are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God—not carved onto stone tablets but on the tablets of tender hearts” (2 Cor. 3:3).

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel