Macon ex-gay conference adopts loving tone

SouthernVoice.com – By Zach Hudson

Gay activist counters group wants to ?love gays out of existence?

Macon, Ga. ? If Christian dogma dictates homosexuality to be sinful, a Macon church says that traditional evangelical outreach to gay people has offered little in the way of redemption.

At the Philadelphia Conference, a daylong Sept. 30 seminar hosted by Christ Chapel, the message touted from church leaders and ex-gay circuit evangelists urged understanding for those who ?struggle with same-sex attractions,? at the same time offering the possibility of ?freedom? from homosexuality.

?Our goal coming into this conference was that we have a goal not of condemnation, but of kindness,? said Christ Church Associate Pastor Beth White.