Nancy Abigail Baker Heche (/heɪtʃ/; née Prickett, born March 10, 1937)[4] is an American activist, author, and counselor.
[citation needed] Beginning in 2005, Heche has been an activist on behalf of Love Won Out, a group with ties to Focus on the Family.
[8] On September 8, 2006, Heche was the "Back of the Book guest" on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor.
[7] In 2010, Heche and Joe Dallas published a book entitled The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality: A Biblical and Compassionate Response to Same-Sex Attraction.
Nancy Heche later commented that Anne "became sort of the poster child for coming out and bringing the whole homosexual issue into the public eye and even glamorizing and humorizing it, laughing about it, making it just another kind of love relationship".
"[5] After reading the Old Testament book of Isaiah, Heche became convinced that sexual orientation change was possible for her daughter, and likened what she believed would be their eventual reconciliation to the parable of the Prodigal Son.
[15] In her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, Anne Heche wrote that when she contracted genital herpes as an infant, her mother insisted that it was a diaper rash and refused to take her to the doctor.