Ethics Daily is reporting the Southern Baptist Convention is forming a Ministry to Homosexuals Task Force headed by Texas Minister, Rev. Bob Stith. 
About 13 years ago Stith realized he was saying a lot of negative things about homosexuals from his pulpit, repented and got involved with a Focus of the Family reparative therapy program called Exodus. (this despite all legitimate research and medical knowledge to the contrary about reparative therapy) This resurrection of conservative evangelical  re-programming is expanding internationally and making a lot of money.

The SBC is attempting to soften it’s image, it’s more of the same old, same old.

Stith says that gay-rights activists seeking to normalize homosexuality “knew the only way to get past the evangelical church on this issue was to make it appear the Bible doesn’t speak against homosexual behavior.” “Many conservative Christians don’t understand how to refute those arguments,” he said. “In fact, people in the pews are beginning to believe homosexuals can’t change and that they are born ‘that way.’”

Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission formed the Ministry to Homosexuals Task Force. In a report to the convention in 2003, the task force said Southern Baptist churches need to initiate a dual ministry of “speaking the truth” about homosexuality being a sin, while reaching out in redemptive ways to those who struggle with same-sex temptation.

1) In fairness to the Reverend Stith, he may well have had a change of heart and repents his vitriol.

After years working with Exodus, he has to know the failure rate of this treatment and the harm it has caused.  The company no longer claims cures.  He has to know real people that have been harmed, condemned, failed, rejected and even dead because they were duped
He has to know the gay agenda is a fear tactic that brings the bucks into the church coffers. 
He has to know  the tribal pressure in these treatment programs and the tribal church culture feeding it, is an explosive money printing proposition.
Yet FotF continues to use faulty research to make it’s claims ( endorsing NARTH and aggressively expanding to other countries as the money roles in. Standards such as the  Klein Continuum are ignored, and the divorce rate among success Exodus ex-gays into heterosexual marriage is staggering.

Meantime child psychologists, professors of law, sociology, nursing and psychiatry are fighting back on reparative therapy directly at fundamentalist religious right groups like Exodus (a Dobson initiative)  with respectmyresearch. 
While some gays caught in situational gayness or bisexually might benefit from some  reparative help, they are few.

Medical researchers and ex-gay program recipients are attempting to expose the failure of reparative therapy, especially when God is sold as a cure.

beyondexgay, SoulForce and the Human Rights Campaign are a few. Heterosexuals supporting gay Christians are speaking out.

Stith says SBC leadership has been open, and  it is SBC churches where he has his work cut out for him. 
The second  potential for the SBC stepping into this softer, gentler attempt would be an opportunity to provide  sensitivity, bigotry and communication training against the  homophobia in SBC churches.

Why would any gay person trust this repackaged Regeneration program and why would they go to a Church that rejects them. 
Reparative ministries target frightened parents, confused and guilt ridden closet gays and take their money.
Why would heterosexual SBC churches embrace this. Gays in and SBC church…yeah, right. The SBC has no credibility with their track record on the way GLBT are treated, scorned, rejected and told they are damaged, doomed sinners who need to be fixed. 

I find it hard to believe the SBC on the leadership level let alone churches would accept this from an involving Exodus:

Freedom” can include a variety of things, including “attaining abstinence from homosexual behaviors, lessening of homosexual temptations, strengthening their sense of masculine or feminine identity, correcting distorted styles of relating with members of the same and opposite gender.

Metropolitians Churches have been working with the gay communities for years providmg this and more with safety and no condemnation.

Pastor Dan at Street Prophets on this initiative:

You let me know how that works out for you.

Just off the top of my head, I’d say that anyone who maintains ties to Exodus or preaches that homosexuality is a sin isn’t going to make much headway. But what do I know? I’m a “false pastor” and I’ve seen stranger things.

But yeah, not thinking that ministry is going to go very far.

Gallup Polls:

• 42 percent of Americans say homosexuality is something a person is born with–compared to 13 percent in 1977–while 35 percent say it is due to factors such as upbringing and environment.
• Of those who believe homosexuality is congenital, according to Gallup, 78 percent say it should be considered an acceptable alternative lifestyle.
• Today, 57 percent of the American public believes homosexuality should be sanctioned as an acceptable alternative lifestyle–the highest the Gallup Poll has recorded since 1982. Also indicating higher tolerance, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual relations should be legal.
• For the first time in the 21st century, less than a majority of Americans say homosexual relations are morally wrong (49 percent.) Since 2001, the percentage of those who say homosexual relations are morally acceptable has increased from 40 percent to 47 percent.