Core Issues Trust

Core Issues Trust (Challenging gender confusion; upholding science & conscience) is a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression. Organisation's declared mission is about recovering an understanding people as created beings; mission that recognises the dangers of tampering with the foundations of human existence and its created order. Its members reject the idea of 'orientation' as it is used to sanction feelings or practices that blur the gendering of maleness or femaleness. Michael Davidson has been named head of the Core Issues Trust.

Official position on gay "marriage"

Core Issues Trust (CIT) respects the rights of individuals who identify as 'gay' who do not seek change, and supports dignity for LGBT persons. It does not support gay "marriage" - usually considered an "equality" issue, premised on the belief that being gay is "biological" and is therefore unchangeable. Core Issues Trust offers one-to-one support for individuals voluntarily seeking to leave homosexual behaviors and feelings adn issued their "Statement on Prejudice". Core Issues Trust promotes the idea that individuals are not "victims" of their sexual desires.

Challenging the self-perpetuating idea of 'orientation'

People who link with Core Issues Trust (CIT) typically are uncomfortable with the notion of 'orientation'. Often they have experienced sexual feelings that are unwanted, or have found themselves addicted to sexual behaviors or fantasies that have become damaging. They are likely to be people who see the self-perpetuating idea of 'orientation' as entrenching a view about sexual identity that is unhelpful and inconsistent with their sense of spirituality. And yet they know that they have experienced and acted on patterns of thought that seem indivisible from their sense of self. They may be disappointed that their life of faith hasn't altered this patterning and are weary in their struggle to resist powerful drives and the increasingly common view that such feelings are normal for them.

CIT points out that this notion of 'orientation' is being used to usher in acceptance - particularly of homosexuality - as a normal and natural variant of human experience and sexual expression. CIT's adherents sense that this seemingly unstoppable trend is at variance with an even more primary sense of right and wrong that they have grown up with and hold dear. They may also sense that this new movement that has begun to find acceptance in churches or sacred spaces, has a deep resonance with very ancient ideas about sexuality that are of dubious origin. Their spiritual radar warns them that our culture is under threat.

Both of these groups of people associating with CIT instinctively recognise that they risk much if they follow a different path and resist the now commonly held opinion that sexual orientation is fixed. Their views are also unpopular because, despite all the teaching about 'same-sex attraction' they sense that a new identity - a variant of the two genders - is becoming entrenched in the 'anthropology' of faith groups. In other words, they worry that homosexual 'orientation' has been reified in contemporary teachings so that same-sex orientated men and women are gendered differently from those who do not experience such feelings. They may also be suspicious of a spirituality that grows around this nuance of gendering that seems to conflate the 'gift of singleness' or celibacy with a same-sex attraction (SSA) identity.

The root of their discomfort with the new gendering is that this conflicts with what both groups understand about the origin of humankind. They believe that humans are distinct from the animals. This partly explains why 'gay' penguins and the like don't impress them. For these groups, the fact of creation means that 'same-sex attraction' has its origins in human experience rather than being part of the created order. For them, the journey of life is about experiencing the freedom to enjoy masculinity and femininity as it was intended to be, distinctly and in union with one another.

Western civilization in deep trouble

According to CIT the Western civilization appears to be in deep trouble. Faith groups in the west are being drawn into the re-gendering of society. One of the most insidious means of achieving this re-gendering is to uncritically accept and therefore sanctify the notion of 'orientation' or, worse still, to import it into the sense of being in the places of worship. Christians in particular are being deceived by ideas that the ancients were familiar with and that belong to phenomena termed by Biblical scholars as gnosticism.

Free Speech Issue: The Voices of the Silenced

In February 2018 CIT had arranged for Voices of the Silenced: Experts, Evidences and Ideologies to be screened at the Vue Cinema at London’s Piccadilly Circus. The film interviews 15 people who left the homosexual lifestyle. The pro-LGBT website Pink News however have opposed the scheduled film showing and wrote a story about it, blasting the notion that people may “change” anything about their "gay identity". LGBT activist authors, in line with tenets of homo-fascism, cited English politicians and public figures who want to make it illegal for therapists to help patients achieve their desired goals as related to leaving homosexuality. Consequently, the cinema declared it “will not be able to fulfil the final terms of the agreement” and cancelled the screening at the last moment. According to Andrea Minichiello Williams, CEO of the Christian Legal Centre, “Ironically, the actions of PinkNews and Vue cinema illustrate the point of the film. The Voices of the Silenced are, in fact, being silenced.”

See also

• ABC Theory of Emotion
• Ego-dystonic homosexuality