40: From Ex-Gay Porn Actor to Catholic Street Evangelist—Joseph Sciambra

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🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Sciambra says porn made him gay. At least, it was a major causal factor in his dark journey from shy Catholic kid to appearing in amateur gay porn and doing degrading things in leather bars. Joseph has told his story to anyone, any media outlet, willing to listen. Including Howard Stern, on whose raunchy show Joseph appeared as a guest in 2013.

But Catholic media? Not so much. Perhaps that his backstory is so dark and raw, that the redemption part of the story takes longer to land. Perhaps it’s that Sciambra is committed to focusing laser-like on the astonishing inroads made by LGTB activists in parishes and dioceses across the country.

Few writers provide as much brutally candid insights into the homosexualist movement, the bodily, psychic, and spiritual wounds that attend homosexual acts, and the widespread failure of Catholic leaders to acknowledge the room’s neon elephant.

In this interview, you’ll learn a new way to approach the “gay topic” from someone who is committed to reaching those still in the lifetstyle through his street ministry, “Jesus Loves Gay Men.”

Three questions for you to ponder and comment below,

-Why do you think he’s found it hard to get invited to Catholic conferences when evangelicals are willing to collaborate with his ministry?

-What are you thoughts on how the “LGBT” agenda has been so successful in embedding itself at the diocesan level in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Newark, NJ?

-Have you ever thought you faced a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to success — yet somehow found a way?

Find out more at his blog/website, www.josephsciambra.com.

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0:59.0	This is the show where we go upstream away from politics to the sources of culture.
1:04.3	Today's guest is Joseph Shambra.
1:06.5	Joseph grew up in a loving stable home in the Bay Area, went to Catholic schools from K through 12.
1:12.0	Early on, however, the talents of pornography got their hooks in Joseph's young soul
1:15.8	and began to slowly destroy his moral compass.
1:18.8	And eventually it led him to a level of darkness he never dreamed existed.
1:23.0	Throughout the 1990s, Joseph lived in and around the homosexual culture of the Castro district
1:28.4	in San Francisco, California, later became an amateur porn actor and male escort.
1:33.2	After a near-death experience and some scary encounters with the demonic
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