A retired pastor from Australia who used to run the country’s most popular gay conversion clinic has just been charged with sexually assaulting an underage boy.
Former Rev. Ron Charles Brookman appeared in court this week to address accusations that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy between September and October 1989.
At the time of the alleged assault, Brookman was a senior pastor at Newtown Mission Church, where he worked from 1984 to 1998. He later went on to be the director of Living Waters Australia, an antigay organization that aimed to “cure” people of homosexuality, from 1999 to 2014.
In addition to that, Brookman worked as the director of a sex addicts support group and has been involved in leading several groups to “support men wanting freedom from internet addictions and other forms of broken sexuality,” according to his LinkedIn profile.
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In 2008, he opened up about his own struggles with his sexuality, telling an interviewer that he joined the Presbyterian Church at the age of 17 and that it caused his homosexuality to be “driven inward, but it was always just under the surface.”
“When I was 26 I discovered homosexual pornography,” Brookman continued. “I got married when I was 29 for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to keep up appearances as a happily married minister but it was a very sad and dysfunctional marriage.”
It wasn’t until 1990 when he claims he was finally able to rid himself of his homosexual demons, thanks to Christian psychiatrist John White.
“That began a three-year journey of meeting fortnightly with another pastor and confessing my sins,” Brookman recalled. “He prayed for the pain in my heart and asked that the Holy Spirit bring healing. Slowly but surely I was transformed.”
70-year-old Brookman pleaded not guilty to the child sexual assault charges this week at Newtown Local Court. His next court hearing is scheduled for March 31.
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Holy shiitballs!! That NEVER happens!!
Oh, wait…..
Chrisk
“It wasn’t until 1990 when he claims he was finally able to rid himself of his homosexual demons, thanks to Christian psychiatrist John White.”
Oh honey you were never gay. You lusted after little children which makes you a pedophile. Own if freak. Hopefully some prison justice will take care of your miserable last days.
chase_boston
#EpsteinKoby : a none player does not exist : in the “normative” is its game play!
chase_boston
tribal Minions say one thing and do another : they all do, no matter what flavor : just don´t caugh but there is not enough clever : since the eye in the sky sees it all ……………
Celtic
TRANSFORMED? REALLY? Come to America and join the Republican Party. You’ll fit right in.