Pray the gay away

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Pray the Gay Away (Official Video) - Samuel Saint Samuel Saint K subscribers Subscribed. " Pray the Gay Away? " is a episode of the American television series Our America with Lisa Ling. The episode, hosted by Ling, profiles several people as they seek to reconcile their homosexuality with their Christianity. It originally aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on March 8, Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients become heterosexual by working with them to ameliorate toxic feelings stemming from their damaged childhoods.

Exodus International, evangelicalism’s flagship ex-gay ministry, shut down in after former leader Alan Chambers said it had caused pain and harm to too many people and that more than Many of the subjects in Pray Away discuss their experience in the ex-gay movement, at least in retrospect, as not changing their sexuality as much as encouraging them to suppress it. Jump to ratings and reviews.

Want to Read. Rate this book. Gay the Pray Away. Natalie Naudus.

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the library and smuggles it home, her conservative Christian homeschooling world begins to crack. And when the cutest girl she's ever met shows up to Bible class, she starts to question everything. Riley is so confident and kind, and she and Valerie bond quickly over existing as multiracial teens in a very white Christian community.

As Valerie explores her feelings for Riley, she begins to see that the world she knows is a carefully crafted narrative. Publicly, the girls are close friends--holding hands in prayer, rooming together at a conference. Privately, they grasp at any chance to continue their forbidden romance--until they are found out. Now Valerie must choose between staying with a family she fears will never accept her, or running away with the girl she loves.

About the author. Natalie Naudus books followers. She has won an Audie award and nine Earphones awards, and maintains a robust social media following. She lives with her family on a mountain in Virginia. Gay the Pray Away is her debut novel. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 30 of reviews. We deserve better.

I've adored Natalie Naudus's audiobook performances for such a long time, she is the narrator for sapphic audiobooks! I was so excited to find out that she was releasing her own sapphic debut and I'm so happy that I get to tell you all about how incredible it is. Thank you to the author for an arc. We follow Valerie as she struggles to navigate the lessons she has always been taught about God.

These have been told to her in the shape of truths, as mindless lessons she must obey, but Val is beginning to doubt. And when one pillar falls, the whole building starts to crumble. As she begins to unravel the narrative that her conservative Christian world has taught her for so long, she meets someone who confirms the seedlings of doubt in her mind.