Index
| About Exodus (Exodus International), 18 | |
| acceptance. See inclusivity | |
| Accept/MCC, 9–10, 18–28, 79–80, 180–181, 201; Bible and, 7, 2327, 93–100, 104, 134–138; Creech and, 3, 7, 8; Disney boycott and, 127, 145; emotion management and, 89–90, 93–96, 119–121, 124125, 128–129; essentialism and, 108, 110; Good Christian identity and, 93–96, 141–143; heterosexism and, 190, 193–196, 199; member biographies, 39–40, 8385, 109; mission of, 18, 21, 95–96; revised theology of, 15–16, 21, 27–28, 92, 113; similarities with Exodus, 14, 19, 37–38, 54; social justice and, 22, 28–29, 107, 110, 195–196 See also gay Christians; religion/sexuality struggle; support groups | |
| achievement ideology, 93–94 | |
| acting out. See backsliding activism, 22, 29. See also gay rights movement; social justice | |
| Acts 8:26–40, 112–113 | |
| Adams, Jay, 43 | |
| adultery, 52, 73, 150, 153–154, 175 | |
| Advocate (magazine), 20 | |
| AIDS, 29. See also sexually transmitted disease (STD) | |
| Alcoholics Anonymous study, 81 | |
| American Psychiatric Association, 149 | |
| American Psychological Association, 188 | |
| Ammerman, Nancy, 159 | |
| anger, 124–125, 128–129, 157. See also emotional distress | |
| anonymity, 51, 91, 202 | |
| anxiety, 40, 51, 53, 82–83, 89. See also emotional distress | |
| Assembly of God, 9, 10 | |
| atheism, 47 | |
| authenticity. See Good Christian identity; self-transformation | |
| authority, 131, 174–176, 186, 197199; Bible as, 5, 56, 95, 97; divine vs. human, 23, 94, 95–96, 100, 105–106; male, 168, 169–170, 189–190 See also Bible; God’s Will |
| backsliding, 84, 105, 121, 150, 165, 172 | |
| Baptists, 68, 127, 145; Southern, 6, 9, 10, 84, 87 |
-219-
