‘We demand our representatives rescind the evil ban on change-allowing therapy for minors in California,’ members of the Changed movement declared.
Doug Mainwaring June 13, 2025 LifeSite News
SACRAMENTO, California, (LifeSiteNews) — Brave former gay, lesbian and transgendered individuals took to a podium outside the California statehouse on Thursday to oppose a proposed law banning counseling and therapy aimed at helping those who seek freedom from LGBTQ+ identities and lifestyles.
“Each of these precious people here have an incredible story of how they navigated (dealing with LGBT impulses) and what they needed in order to navigate with conscience, with their faith convictions,” explained Ken Williams, co-founder of Changed, a burgeoning movement composed of folks who once identified as LGBTQ+ and who now “celebrate the love of Jesus and His freedom and comfort in our lives.” …
No one is born gay
“The science is very clear: No one is born gay,” declared Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute.
“There was a massive study of the human genome that proved there’s no ‘gay gene,’” said Morse, noting that studies of identical twins have also shown that a gay gene does not exist.
“The claim that we ought to ban therapy is based on a radical claim about the person which is that you’re born gay and you cannot change,” Morse asserted, yet “a single counterexample is enough to prove the radical claim that no one can change.”
“We have many counter-examples standing here,” said Morse, pointing to the crowd of Changed Movement members standing behind her. “There are many counter-examples all over the world, (so) there’s plenty of evidence that people can change.”
The “‘born gay’ as a theory is dead,” she proclaimed. “It needs to be dead and buried.”
