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Michael Johnston is an actor. He is credited in the fifth season's episode "The Dance of Dragons", but his role is unknown. Michael Johnston is a United States citizen and prominent "ex-gay". He is the chair of the National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day and founder of Kerusso Ministries. Johnston is best known for being featured in 1998 advertisements as an "ex-gay" denouncing homosexuality. The commercial, which aired in Washington DC, shows Johnston together with his mother. With photos of a young child blowing out birthday candles and soft music, Johnston's mother says: "This is my son Michael at 3. I love my son very much, I always have. Even when he told me he was involved in homosexuality and doing drugs." Well, after he got HIV he told people that with the help of Jesus he had overcome the temptation to be gay. Johnston got involved with the Conservative Christian movement and started something called Kerusso Ministries where he kept telling people that he'd stopped being gay and as such, others could as well, see Harm the ex-gay movement causes. Michael Johnston spoke at churches and schools, on radio and television, and even Jerry Falwell used Johnston to put the Falwell message out. As a result, men who couldn't stop being gay the way Michael Johnston said he had got to feel inferior.

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Michael Johnston is a United States citizen and prominent "ex-gay". He is the chair of the National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day and founder of Kerusso Ministries. Johnston is best known for being featured in 1998 advertisements as an "ex-gay" denouncing homosexuality. The commercial, which aired in Washington DC, shows Johnston together with his mother. With photos of a young child blowing out birthday candles and soft music, Johnston's mother says: "This is my son Michael at 3. I love my son very much, I always have. Even when he told me he was involved in homosexuality and doing drugs." "Just because you love your children, it doesn't mean you approve of everything they do. Sometimes they make bad choices. My son Michael found out the truth -- he COULD walk away from homosexuality. But he found out too late -- he has AIDS. If you love your children, love them enough to let them know the truth, that there is hope for change, hope for the future." Then Michael says: "A decade ago, I walked away from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ. I'm not that 3-year-old boy anymore, a little older, a little taller, but I still love my mom. And I'll be forever grateful that she loved me enough to tell me the truth. The truth that set me free." The ad ends with the tagline: "It's not about hate. It's about hope."[1] Michael Johnston is an actor. He is credited in the fifth season's episode "The Dance of Dragons", but his role is unknown. Well, after he got HIV he told people that with the help of Jesus he had overcome the temptation to be gay. Johnston got involved with the Conservative Christian movement and started something called Kerusso Ministries where he kept telling people that he'd stopped being gay and as such, others could as well, see Harm the ex-gay movement causes. Michael Johnston spoke at churches and schools, on radio and television, and even Jerry Falwell used Johnston to put the Falwell message out. As a result, men who couldn't stop being gay the way Michael Johnston said he had got to feel inferior.