February 21, 2014

The following excerpts are from the press release “New Groundbreaking Ex-Gay Documentary to Premiere …” on the Voice of the Voiceless website: “TULSA, OK – Sing Over Me is a new, one-¬and-¬a-¬half-¬hour documentary about award-¬winning singer and songwriter Dennis Jernigan and his painful journey and battle with same-¬sex attraction while living as a professing Christian. ‘It was a life,’ he says, ‘that was filled with shame.’ Yet, this is not a story against homosexuality. Rather, it is a story of hope, destiny and restoration.”

“To release Fall 2014, by Free Verse Films (Los Angeles, CA), the film will premiere at a special live event on Friday, Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m., at Eastwood Baptist Church; 949 S. 91 E. Ave.; Tulsa,”…

“As a kid, Jernigan recognized he was ‘different.’ When he heard men from his church discussing homosexuals, he recognized–whether the men knew it or not–they were talking about him. Their words were not kind.”

“‘As a child, I thought God hated me. I thought homosexuals were going straight to hell. I was hopeless,’ he shares. Jernigan battled that sense of hopelessness throughout high school and college, feeling condemned from the messages he heard from the pulpit; yet he was unable to change.”

“But obviously something did change. It is the core of his message today. ‘I’ve often heard people say, ‘You do more damage than good by telling someone they don’t have to be homosexual.’ I’m not telling them they have to do anything. I’m just telling them God loves them and here’s how He loved me. This is my story.’” …