Evergreen International, Inc. was a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization located in Salt Lake City, Utah whose stated mission was to assist "people who want to diminish same-sex attractions and overcome homosexual behavior". Evergreen supported the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Founded in 1989, Evergreen closed in 2014.
Conferences.
LDS church leaders spoke at the following Evergreen conferences:
Effectiveness.
As many as 40% of Evergreen members were in heterosexual marriages. Warren Throckmorton reviewed "Understanding the meaning of change for married Latter-Day Saint men with histories of homosexual activity" by J. W. Robinson. Robinson interviewed seven heterosexually married men who had been through Evergreen and previously identified as gay. They believed that they had a spiritual transformation that changed their orientation. They also stated that they were no longer troubled by feeling different or rejected by heterosexual men, emotional attraction to men, sexual attraction to men, feeling bad about same-sex desires, social isolation, or compulsive sexual thoughts and behaviors. Robinson found that their change came from a new understanding that prior same-sex attractions did not require them to be gay.
Closure and transition to North Star.
In January 2014, Evergreen International announced that it had closed and had merged some of its operations with North Star, a support group for LDS church members with same-sex attraction. North Star takes no position on the question of whether sexual orientation change is possible.
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