I have seen first hand what this type of thinking can do and it galls me that people are forced to live a life that truly is not their own. To bury their "true" selves for the sake of what family or friends may think.
People may not want to be gay because of societies treatment of them however they will never be happy and fulfilled going against the core of their being. It is repression and is not fair to an opposite sex partner or spouse to force something on them that was never there to begin with. Don't call this forced, unnatural way of living a "cure" and phooey on USA Toady for even publishing this crap.
,,,The lawsuit is the opening salvo of a wave of activism intended to discredit therapy offered in 70 clinics across 20 states, according to the SPLC.
As it should be!! This therapy has been discredited long ago and the fact that "70 clinics" still use it is a pathetic crime. There's no evidence that anyone has actually changed; they rely on self report. As I have posted before, Exodus has completely collapsed under the weight of their falsehoods. John Paulk claimed he had changed for several years until finally admitting he hadn't. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the ex gay industry doesn't really have any. Self-loathing is not "therapy."
Whatever the situation at an individual clinic, accusing professionals from across the country who provide treatment for fully informed persons seeking to change their sexual orientation of perpetrating a fraud serves only to stigmatize the professional and shame the patient.
And perpetuating a fraud is a crime in my book!! I'd love to see follow up interviews with those 18,000 supposedly helped.
Sexual reorientation therapy not unethical: Column
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