During Gordon Manche’s tele chats there is a running banner that urges people to donate money. We are not told what we are meant to be donating for. I assume that we are meant to donate for him to continue ministering. As his ministering involves unbending the bent, then yes, people are paying for his gay conversions.

Manché would probably counter that an abstinence programme is a purely man-made artefact, whereas the approach he advocates involves turning one’s life over to God Himself.

Last week I wrote a letter to The Times explaining that no one can convert anyone to any sexuality. What made me laugh was that even though I explained that all of these ex-gay ministries that exist have a success rate of 3%, and that 3% work within the ministry themselves, someone wrote a comment below the article you mentioned, claiming that Exodus International is proof that tons of gay men and women are converting, so it is possible.

May I draw everyone’s attention to the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDiYeJ_bsQo

Now can anyone answer this question?

How legal are Mr Manche’s actions? Is he or his wife charging for their alleged conversion services? Or is it all right because it’s being done in the name of Jesus? And why haven’t all social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists complained and taken action?

You forgot to mention his peroxide blonde psychologist wife who, if I am not mistaken, has also ordained a pastor. I wonder how ‘converting’ homosexuals sits with the professional body that regulates(?) psychologists.

Because abstinence programmes worked really well with straight teenagers….

I have no inclination to talk reverently about fairies, pixies, ogres, goblins and other assorted “man-made” creatures.

Why should I make an exception for God?

Mentioning poking in this context, Red Nose, was a very bad idea.

Well, then.

For the sake of fairness and consistency the state should recognise holy orders as a form of marriage. That way clergymen who shed their dog collar – and there’s always one within spitting distance in Malta – wouldn’t be able to get married (again).