How To Respond to Someone Who Comes Out of the Closet
Release Date: 02/20/2025
I Wasn’t Gay — I Was Lost”: Kimberly Zember’s Journey from LGBT Life to Christ | Dr. J Show 286
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Can people really leave behind same-sex attraction? Kimberly Zember says yes—and that claim alone makes her a controversial figure. But as she shares with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, her story is not about politics or slogans—it’s about a soul seeking truth, stumbling through pain, and ultimately finding peace in Christ. Raised Catholic but lacking a clear picture of God’s love, Kimberly lived a double life for years—dating women in secret, wrestling with fear and isolation, and seeking help from those who too often offered affirmation instead of truth. Despite the confusion...
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Healing from Sexual Addiction: A Practical Approach | Floyd Godrey | Dr. J Show Ep 285
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Why do some people experience same-sex attraction—and how should faithful Christians respond? In this episode of the Dr. J Show, clinical sexologist Floyd Godfrey draws on decades of experience counseling clients who experience same-sex attraction and want to live lives of chastity and integrity. Dr. Godfrey discusses how trauma, emotional wounds, and unmet developmental needs can shape sexual desires. He explains the difference between a person’s feelings and their identity, and how healing involves both psychological insight and spiritual maturity. Rather than pushing an agenda,...
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Fr. Sullins Talks Family Structure and Well Being of Children
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In this episode fo the Ruth Institute Podcast. Fr. Sullins talks about how different family structures affect the well-being of children. Find us online at https://ruthinstitute.org. Have a story of your own to share? Let us hear it! Email [email protected]. Subscribe to our newsletter to get this amazing report: Refuting the Top 5 Gay Myths https://ruthinstitute.org/refute-the-top-five-myths/ Have a question or a comment? Leave it in the comments, and we'll get back to you! Subscribe to our YouTube playlist: @RuthInstitute Follow us on Social Media:...
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Born Gay Myth & “Conversion Therapy” Trending with Timmerie
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Understanding the Complexities of Sex Addiction | Floyd Godfrey on the Dr. J Show Ep 284
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One of the most persistent myths promoted by LGBT advocates is that sexual orientation is fixed and cannot change. Research and clinical experience suggest otherwise. In this episode of The Dr. J Show, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse interviews Dr. Floyd Godfrey, a clinical sexologist and Christian counselor with decades of experience helping individuals overcome pornography addiction, unwanted same-sex attraction, and sexualized attachments. Dr. Godfrey explains how many of these issues stem from emotional wounds and disrupted attachment patterns—conditions that are treatable through...
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A Catholic Response to LGBT Identity and Chastity: Hudson Byblow’s Path to Peace | Dr. J Show ep 283
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The narrative promoted by pro-gay activists is that sexual orientation is fixed, immutable, and that efforts to change it are both futile and harmful. In this interview, Hudson Byblow offers a deeply personal and thoughtful counterpoint to that claim. He describes how emotional wounds, unmet childhood needs, and confusion about belonging contributed to the development of his same-sex desires. His testimony reveals that identity is more than a label and that healing is possible through love, truth, and authentic relationships. Byblow speaks candidly about how chastity and Catholic...
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Resentment kills the heart | Hudson Byblow on the Dr. J Show Ep 282
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Hudson Byblow speaks about the Catholic Faith in engaging, personalized, and trauma-informed ways, formed by his own journey of coming home to the Catholic Church – the last place the world said he should ever look! After leaving behind his prior-held “LGBTQ+ is who I am” mindset to in favor of striving to grow in the virtue of chastity, he has come to experience greater peace, joy, hope, love, and freedom than what he ever before knew was possible. In this conversation, Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morris and Hudson Byblow explores the complexities of identity politics, particularly in...
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From Gay to Grace: AJ Benjamin’s Fight for Truth & Identity | Dr. J Show episode 281
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AJ Benjamin joins Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse to share a powerful story of healing from same-sex attraction and the deeper wounds that fed it — fatherlessness, confusion, and emotional pain. With honesty and humility, AJ walks us through the trauma he experienced as a child and how it distorted his identity, his relationships, and his view of God. Through years of spiritual growth and personal reflection, he came to see that his deepest needs weren’t about sexuality, but about truth, healing, and belonging. Together, AJ and Dr. Morse explore how our culture often exploits emotional...
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The Sexual State Exposed - Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse with Jason Adkins on Catholic in America
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In this bold and eye-opening episode of Catholic in America, Jason Adkins is joined by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute, to expose the institutional forces behind the sexual revolution—and how the Church’s teachings are not only relevant, but prophetic. Dr. Morse, a trained economist and former professor at Yale and George Mason, dives deep into how elite ideologies—disguised as progress—have systematically dismantled family life through no-fault divorce, contraception, and gender ideology. From propaganda in U.S. foreign aid to the ideology embedded in public...
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I Wanted To Devour Men | AJ Benjamin on the Dr. J Show
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Dr. J Show Episode 280. Are people really born gay? Is it true that no one ever changes? And what about those who feel same-sex desires but never act on them—what does healing look like for them? On this week’s episode of The Dr. J Show, we sit down with AJ Benjamin—a faithful Catholic, husband, father, and counselor—who bravely opens up about his long struggle with same-sex attraction. Though he never acted out sexually, AJ describes the intense emotional and spiritual turmoil that once consumed him… and the radical transformation that followed when he surrendered it all to Christ....
info_outlineDr. Morse gives a presentation about what parents need to know about the Gender Ideology to help people navigate our turbulent times.
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Related Playlists:
Gay No More Testionieshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi2OoPf_APvpYetZ--PHACCS1oTkhJ9f
Counseling Freedom for All: Experts Defending Choice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi2OoPf_APt0rwnPIw_jFIrbMWEqNJMM
Advice for Parents of LGBT+ Children: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi2OoPf_APu5qIvFpqlppaYPWfPWOM-D
Clergy Sex Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi2OoPf_APtqWhe1N9SH2_5oG0PLXM7M
Ex-Gay Visibility Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI9-J225ZEg
Luis Ruiz: Pulse Nightclub Survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_z-vtkyvJo
Nancy Charles Pt. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99S1_mv903I
Nancy Charles Pt. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrWIe0ld2Nk
Ken Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxiQfFwH36Q
Charlene Cothran at the 5th Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rna7CFzzkM
Marco Casanova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSh7nlhZ6XQ
Nancy Charles Advice for Parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2MVtjGDmTs
Daisy Strongin Advice for Parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQcupSWXZ0
James Parker advice for parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEm_SZS3iPc
APA on What Causes Sexual Orientation: http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx
Leaving Pride Behind: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/leaving-pride-behind-fiducia-supplicans
The Social organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3626005.html
Judith P. Andersen and John Blosnich, “Disparities in Adverse Childhood Experiences among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults: Results from a Multi-State Probability-Based Sample,” PLOS ONE 8, no. 1 (2013): e54691, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054691
“Special report on Sexuality and Gender” The New Atlantis, Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul McHugh.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-50-fall-2016
UK data: Sexual Identity–Behavior Discordant Heterosexuals in Britain: Findings from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle 2010–2012, Maria Clatrava, D. Paul Sullins and Steph James, Sexes, 2023, Vol 4, No. 4.
https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5118/4/4/39
US data: “How many Homosexual Desistors are there in the US?” Donald Paul Sullins, SSRN, August 6, 2024. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4910854
The trans-minded client: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3a36ALLLA
Gender Ideology’s Verbal Engineering: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/gender-ideology-s-verbal-engineering
Ruth Institute Parent Resource Center: https://ruthinstitute.org/resource-centers/parent-resources/
Ruth Institute Transgender Resource Center: https://ruthinstitute.org/resource-center/transgender/
Ruth Institute statement on therapy bans: https://ruthinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ruth-Institute-Statement-on-Therapy.-Banspdf.pdf
Desist, Detrans, & Detox: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/desist-detrans-detox/ref/61/
A Practical Response to Gender Distress: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Response-Gender-Distress-Families
Transformation, A Former Transgender Responds to LGBTQ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625862601/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2DYF18PSUU7HB&keywords=linda+seiler&qid=1690328087&sprefix=linda+sei%2Caps%2C546&sr=8-2