Yet that same honesty eventually led her away from ex-gay ministries. “With ex-gay ministries, it gave me the space to be honest about my sexuality,” said Rodgers, now 28. Rodgers had grown up in a nondenominational evangelical church where she assumed being gay wasn’t an option. (RNS) When Julie Rodgers came out as a lesbian at age 17, her mom responded by taking her to an ex-gay ministry in Dallas.
Julie Rodgers is a gay Christian blogger who has spent time in ex-gay ministries but has chosen celibacy.