(LifeSiteNews) – Fr. James Martin, SJ is a dangerous voice within the Catholic Church. He wants to deprive those who experience unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria from receiving the help they crave. He would prefer to keep men and women, boys and girls enslaved in lives from which they seek freedom.
Commenting on yesterday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding Colorado’s so called “conversion therapy” ban, Martin began by stating categorically “Of course, conversion therapy should be banned.” He insisted that there is no proof that people can change, and that counseling people to help them change is “outdated, discredited and dangerous.”
He employed the tiresome, overused, emotionally manipulative mantra of the Transgender-Medical-industrial complex, claiming that such efforts eventually lead to suicide.
What the Jesuit priest says he knows to be true is at odds with countless stories of men and women who have been and continue to be set free from what are often overwhelming homosexual impulses or gender confusion.
I should know: I’m one of them.
Martin’s entire argument is factually, demonstrably untrue, offensive to both human reason and the Catholic faith. His relentless “Let’s normalize homosexuality and transgenderism within the Catholic Church” messaging is in direct opposition to the Church’s genuine understanding of the human person and of human sexuality. He sweeps aside authentic Church teaching, endangering, rather than helping, those who are same-sex attracted or gender confused.
His words stand in stark contrast to those of Cardinal Robert Sarah, who warned Fr. Martin and several current prelates, “You cannot be more merciful than Christ.”
“Conversion therapy programs are, from all the evidence I’ve seen and all the people I’ve spoken with who have been through them, dangerous,” Martin said. Sadly, Martin has only spoken with those trapped within the stronghold of the powerful, impoverishing, enslaving LGBTQ juggernaut.
Changed lives are an inconvenient truth for Fr. James Martin
Examples of men and women leaving behind homosexuality and transgenderism are legion. Yet he has always ignored not only their testimonies, but their existence.
No one has spoken the truth about changed lives more clearly and eloquently than Luis Ruiz, who survived the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting where 49 patrons were killed and 53 were injured at the popular gay bar. He set the record straight about something secular media and LGBT activists consistently get wrong: Conversion.
“This is not conversion therapy,” Ruiz told a cheering crowd of ex-LGBT individuals.
“This is not electrotherapy. This is not shock therapy,” he continued.
“This is all the Holy Spirit,” and about “a man who died on a Cross,” Ruiz said.
“This is not a gay to straight thing: This is a lost to saved thing,” he added.
“Their definition of conversion therapy is not our definition of conversion,” Ruiz told LifeSiteNews in 2019.
“Change is possible,” said Angel Colon, another Pulse Nightclub survivor. Colon sustained six bullet wounds that night and had to learn how to walk again.
“Freedom in Christ is true, and it’s real, and it can happen,” Colon declared. “If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”
“Jesus wants your heart,” he explained to LifeSiteNews. “He doesn’t just want your (sexual) identity. He wants everything of you.”
Watch Ruiz, Colon, and several others tell their amazing stories of experiencing freedom in Christ:
In 2021, about 50 former LGBT individuals came to Washington, D.C. to ask members of Congress to deny passage of the so-called Equality Act. Unlike Fr. Martin, they urged lawmakers not to cut off access to the religious and personal counseling that often plays a role in healing childhood sexual and emotional abuse and trauma that led to embracing those lifestyles.
More recently, former LGBT individuals gathered at the California state capit0l to “demand our representatives rescind the evil ban on change-allowing therapy for minors in California.”
They offered one moving testimonial about the transforming love of Jesus Christ, how each had walked away from homosexuality or transgenderism, and found new life in Christ.
CHANGED + CFC: Speak Out 2025! https://t.co/MAy55xlxDu
— CA Family Council (@CAFamily) June 12, 2025
Martin is wrong: There is no evidence that people are ‘born gay’
“The science is very clear: No one is born gay,” declared Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute, during the California gathering.
“There was a massive study of the human genome that proved there’s no ‘gay gene,’” said Morse, noting that studies of identical twins have also shown that a gay gene does not exist.
“The claim that we ought to ban therapy is based on a radical claim about the person which is that you’re born gay and you cannot change,” Morse asserted, yet “a single counterexample is enough to prove the radical claim that no one can change.”
“We have many counter-examples standing here,” said Morse, pointing to the crowd of Changed Movement members standing behind her. “There are many counter-examples all over the world, (so) there’s plenty of evidence that people can change.”
The “‘born gay’ as a theory is dead,” she proclaimed. “It needs to be dead and buried.”
Science unequivocally contradicts Fr. Martin’s dangerous assertions.
Repentance, not acquiescence, heals lives
I was privileged to witness an extraordinary event that took place within the magnificent rotunda of the United States Capitol in 2019, when former gay, lesbian, and transgender men and women repented and interceded on behalf of the nation for the sins of homosexuality and transgenderism.
“We repent on behalf of our country for the sins of arrogance, for the sins of sexual deviancy, for the sins that have led us to the place where we are today,” one man earnestly prayed as he stood beneath the Capitol dome.
“We repent for the sin of homosexuality. We repent for our part in it,” another former homosexual prayed. “We ask that you would forgive our nation for this. We ask you to hold back any judgement, and that you would hear our prayers and have mercy on us.”
Others joined in offering their heartfelt repentance and intercession.
“Push back the darkness,” prayed a woman who once lived as a lesbian.
“You created us male and female. You created us in Your image. You have created man to find a wife and that is a good thing,” prayed another young woman. “We pray that the truth be revealed to those who have bought into the lies and deception. We pray that you remove the curtain of deception.”
“I repent for the lies that we have believed as far as who we are,” prayed a woman who had lived as a “man” for many years, but is now restored to her true identity. “Lord, we bought into the lie that you didn’t create us good enough. That we should have been something else.”
“I ask you to continue to drop the scales from the eyes of those who live in the deception of who they are, and let them see how they are created in your image, and that you do not make mistakes,” she continued. “I ask you to call them out of that lifestyle, call them out of that deception.”
They pleaded for those who are bound by deception, held captive by the enemy, to be set free. “Lord, we understand that those who hold other positions are not our enemy. We all have but one enemy.”
And they prayed for a great awakening across our land.
Their prayer turned to beautiful worship, with their voices echoing throughout the Capitol building:
I’ll raise a Hallelujah, as Heaven comes to fight for me.
I’ll raise a Hallelujah, because fear has lost its hold on me.And I’m going to sing in the middle of the storm,
Louder and louder, they’re gonna hear my praises roar.
Up from the ashes, hope will arise,
Death is defeated, the King is alive.Death is defeated, the King is alive.
They sang to Jesus:
You have no rival, you have no equal
Now and forever, Our God reigns.
Yours is the Kingdom, Your’s is the glory,
Yours is the Name above all names.What a powerful name it is,
What a powerful name it is:
The Name of Jesus Christ my King.
And they declared on behalf of the nation:
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.And how precious is that Blood,
That makes me white as snow?No other fount we know
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.Death is defeated, the King is alive.
