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Restoration Path, known as Love in Action (LIA) until March 2012, was an ex gay Christian ministry founded in 1973.

The organization was founded in 1973 by Frank Worthen, John Evans, and Kent Philpott in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. In 2010, Tommy Corman became the Executive Director of Love In Action. In March 2012, Love In Action changed its name to Restoration Path. In October 2012, David Jones became the executive director of Restoration Path; as of August 2018, he remains the Executive Director. On July 5, 2007, Love in Action announced the initiation of Family Freedom Intensive, a monthly four day program for parents with teens "struggling with same sex attraction, pornography, and/or promiscuity". Teenagers who they would like to join their parents may be considered for inclusion. As of 2018, there is no mention of this program on the Restoration Path website. As of October 2019, both the organization's website and Facebook page were offline. According to the California Secretary of State, the organization has been dissolved.

After Jack McIntyre, a friend of co founder John Evans, died by suicide because of his inability to change, Evans left Love in Action and denounced it as dangerous. He said: "They're destroying people's lives. If you don't do their thing, you're not of God, you'll go to hell. They're living in a fantasy world." John Smid recounts becoming a Christian in 1982. He found that his religious conviction was incompatible with his homosexuality. He entered into a relationship with a woman and married. In 1986 he joined the leadership of Love In Action, eventually becoming executive director. Smid left LIA in 2008. In 2011, on his website, he stated that homosexuality is an intrinsic part of one's being, and that "change, repentance, reorientation and such" cannot occur, and noted that he had "never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual". On November 16 2014, John Smid married his same sex partner, Larry McQueen.

The 2012 book The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the debut novel of American author Emily M. Danforth, was inspired by the Stark controversy. The book was adapted as a 2018 film with the same name. The program is described in the 2016 book Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley. The book was adapted in 2018 as Boy Erased, a film directed by Joel Edgerton starring Lucas Hedges.