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In Arnhem, Christian group loses grant over gay 'cures'
Christian group loses grant over gay 'cures'
January 9, 2009
An orthodox Christian group which offers a course which can ‘cure’ homosexuality has lots its government subsidy with immediate effect, equality minister Ronald Plasterk told MPs on Thursday.
Evangelical Christian organisation Onze Weg (our way) was awarded a grant of €50,000 in September. The Arnhem-based foundation says it does not want to ‘cure’ gayness because it is not an illness.
However, the organisation does offer a course which ‘can lead to a reduction in homosexual feelings… and in some cases a switch to heterosexuality,’ the minister said in a letter to MPs. http://www.minocw.nl/documenten/93544_acceptatie_homoseksualiteit.pdf
‘The subsidy was meant to raise the social acceptability of homosexuality under orthodox Christians. Of course we cannot support groups which want to help people get rid of their homosexual tendancies,’ he said.
The revelations about the group were made in magazine Revu in December. Revu also claimed another group, RefoAnders, was also trying to ‘cure’ gayness. Plasterk said he had also asked that group for more information.
In total the government gives some €450,000 in grants to eight gay Christian groups, ranging from liberal to fundamentalist, says the Volkskrant. Much of this month goes to boosting the acceptability of gay teachers.
*** Translation of letter above
of the States-General
PO Box 20018
2500 EA Den Haag
Den Haag Our attribute your letter of your feature
January 8, 2009 DE/93544 ---
Subject
Acceptance of homosexual orientation in
to consider life circle
The government encourages the social acceptance of homosexuality, including subsidizing
various organizations with very different basis, which operate in this field. In
a publication in the weekly Revu of December 2, 2008 was reported that one of the
subsidized organizations, the Foundation Our Way, would deal with the 'cure' of
homosexuality. In response to Chamber I stated that if this were true, the
grant would be terminated, and in parallel with this, I reply via a correspondence with the
Foundation seeks to find out what its views and activities at this point. There are
several exchanges of correspondence.
In a letter dated January 8, 2009, the foundation's activities and views.
On the basis of this letter I draw the following conclusions:
1. To date, the Foundation Our Way much movement, and it is valuable in that orthodox
Christian circles homosexuality is discussed, and people with homosexual
supports feelings.
2. The foundation is not involved in efforts to people of their homosexuality
to 'cure', it indicates that word is not used because homosexuality is not a disease.
Furthermore, they allow the word in the past used to be true, but it provides
to more nuanced now to think and speak.
3. The foundation is looking change and wholeness in Jesus Christ, and believes that that could
leyden that the intensity of homosexual feelings can reduce or fade, which
Indeed, some people then there can be change to heterosexuality. The
foundation indicates that this modification is the 'a priori objective is.
I conclude that, with the recognition that all people can have for the important work that they
Foundation done, particularly in groups that other organizations might be difficult to reach, the
strive to fade from homosexual feelings, and the stress of the open
perspective that it could lead to some change to heterosexuality, does not fit
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within a grant program that focuses on the social acceptance of homosexuality. The fact
that the change to heterosexuality is not the objective is to advance does not.
The above conclusion leads to my decision to grant to the Foundation Our Way to an end.
I have the foundation on informed.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Science,
Dr. Ronald H.A. Plasterk