Baptist minister and commentator denounces 'ex-gay therapy'

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Baptist minister and speaker Russell D. Moore has joined the growing ranks of evangelicals who no longer support so-called 'reparative therapy,' which aimed at turning LGBT people straight. At a Southern Baptist Convention conference, Moore told journalists the following:

(From the Religion News Service article, second link)

“The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you’re going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you’re struggling with, I don’t think that’s a Christian idea,” Moore told journalists. “Faithfulness to Christ means obedience to Christ. It does not necessarily mean that someone’s attractions are going to change.”

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2014/10/another-evangelical-leader-comes-out-against-so-called-reparative-therapy.html

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/10/28/evangelical-leader-russell-moore-denounces-ex-gay-therapy/

A bit more information about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_D._Moore