When “Help” Hurts: What Conversion Therapy Does to Ordinary Kids and Their Families
A few months later, Jamie sat in a different chair, in a different room, across from a counselor their parents had found through church.
“This is about helping you live the life you were meant to live,” the counselor said.
Jamie nodded, eyes fixed on the floor.
That night at dinner, Jamie barely spoke.
“Are you okay?” their mom asked.
“I’m fine.”
“You can tell me anything,” she said.
Jamie hesitated, then shrugged. “I know.”
But something had shifted. The words sounded the same. The meaning didn’t.
Protecting Your LGBTQ+ Child: What Christian Parents Should Know About Conversion Therapy
If you are a Christian parent and your child has come out as LGBTQ+, you may feel torn between your faith and your love for your child. You may be asking hard questions about Scripture, identity, holiness, and what it means to be both truthful and compassionate.
That kind of struggle is real. It deserves patience, not panic.
Many Christian parents are told that conversion therapy is a loving or faithful response. It may be framed as a way to help a child return to God’s design or to prevent a difficult future. But whatever language is used, the practice is the same: an attempt to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. And the evidence is clear that it causes harm.
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