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On May 23, 12:31 pm, <ram...@truthonly.com.Sword of Baal> wrote:
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http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/shrink-suspended-dangerous-gay-cur...
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>> A shrink has been stripped of her accreditation for practicing dangerous
>> ‘gay cure’ therapy.
>
>> 61-year-old who had been a psychotherapist for 20 years, had her
>> membership
>> suspended from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
>> (BACP) after she was found to be telling patients she could cure their
>> sexuality.
>
>> Award winning journalist Patrick Strudwick posed as a gay patient and
>> secretly taped two therapy sessions with the shrink three years ago.
>
>> In the tape, Strudwick asks her if she views homosexuality as ‘a mental
>> illness, an addiction or an antireligious phenomenon’. She replies: ‘It
>> is
>> all of that.’
>
>> In the UK, homosexuality was declassified as an illness in 1968.
> Well, we need to applaude her for not backing down on morals and
> ethics...
Nope, her stupidity, and not caring how much damage she does t others
because of her stupid religious ideas
> she is a true Warrior for that which is good, wholesome, and
> Godly. She gets my kudos....and yours im sure
You have to be kidding. I wonder how many people have committed suicide or
ended up in mental institutions after seeing this vile person.
> Why pretend that homosexuality isnt a disease and addiction when it is ?
> The
> fact that countless homosexuals have broken free proves it was an
> addiction for them.
None of the major medical groups agree with your idea of " homosexuality is
a disease and addiction "
OK well it is simple, lets us see a few URLs showing that is proven that
"The fact that countless homosexuals have broken free" of their sexuality.
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Meanwhile....................
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/john-smid-love-in-action-documentary-ex-gay_n_1500518.html
The former director of the "ex-gay" conservative Christian ministry Love in
Action spoke to CNN today ahead of a feature-length documentary film that
exposes many of the practices involved in so-called "reparative" therapy.
John Smid -- who came forward last fall saying not only that he is gay, but
that it is impossible to change one's sexual orientation -- spoke at length
about his previous work on CNN this morning.
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http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/04/26/father-of-ex-gay-movement-apologizes-to-gay-community-for-making-it-all-up/
Dr. Robert Spitzer’s watershed 2001 study on reparative therapy is widely
credited as having given birth to the modern Ex-Gay movement, and the
evangelical belief that sexual orientation can be changed through prayer and
therapy, earning Spitzer the ire of the worldwide LGBT community.
A decade later, Spitzer has written a public apology admitting that he
essentially made the whole thing up.
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http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/11814-it-is-time-to-ban-reparative-therapy.html
Reparative therapy, which seeks to "cure" homosexuality, is a destructive
form of consumer fraud, where avaricious practitioners try to profit off
their victims by instilling a deep sense of shame and guilt. There is not
one shard of evidence supporting such efforts, while there is a long trail
of blood and tears from the human casualties who bought into the lie that
they were abnormal and needed to be converted into heterosexuals.
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http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2012/05/exodus-cancels-next-love-won-out-conference-due-to-lack-of-interest/
In what seems like the logical extension of the recent trend, Exodus
International has decided there were not enough people interested in
attending their Love Won Out conference scheduled for later this month to
justify the expense. Conference attendance has been trending downward, with
their last conference bringing in barely 400 people. This is down from
nearly 1000 in Exodus’ headier days.
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http://www.truthwinsout.org/scandals-defections/
If there is one certainty about “ex-gay” ministries is that many of the
movement’ leaders who once said that they had “changed” later recanted or
were found to not be living their lives as they had advertised. The
following are some of the defections and scandals that have cast a long
shadow doubt on the efficacy of these organizations:
* John Paulk was the chairman of Exodus International and founded Focus on
the Family’ Love Won Out conference. He had appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah,
Good Morning America and landed on the cover of Newsweek during a high
profile 1998 ex-gay ad campaign. On Sept. 19, 2000 activist Wayne Besen
photographed Paulk in Mr. P’ — Washington, DC gay bar. The incident cost him
his job as Exodus’ chairman and Focus on the Family greatly diminished his
role.
* Michael Johnston was the founder of “National Coming Out of Homosexuality
Day.” The HIV+ ex-gay leader worked with Rev. Jerry Falwell and appeared in
commercials and videos for Coral Ridge Ministries and The American Family
Association. In 2003, he resigned after he allegedly had unprotected sex
with men he met on the Internet. Johnston now resides at a sex addiction
facility in Kentucky, where he also works.
* In 2000, Wade Richards appeared as a media spokesperson for a group called
the Saviors Alliance for Lifting the Truth and gave his testimony of
“change” at a major press conference sponsored by right-wing zealot Peter
LaBarbera, who now works at Americans For Truth. But a year later, Richards
rebuked the “ex-gay” ministries when he came out in an interview with the
Advocate magazine.
* In the early 1970′ Gary Cooper and Michael Bussee were counselors at an
“ex-gay” ministry in Anaheim, Calif. In 1976, they organized the first
national conference of “ex-gay” ministries. At this conference, Exodus
International was formed and it is now the world’ largest “ex-gay”
organization. While traveling on behalf of Exodus, the two men acknowledged
that they had not changed and were in love with each other. They soon
divorced their wives, moved in together and held a commitment ceremony. In
2006, Bussee apologized at an Ex-Gay Survivors Conference for his key role
in starting Exodus International.
* In 1973, John Evans co-founded Love In Action, the first contemporary
“ex-gay” ministry on the outskirts of San Francisco. However, after Evans’
best friend Jack McIntyre committed suicide in despair over not being able
to “change”, Evans left the program. Today, he works to help victims of
these organizations find self-acceptance.
* In 1979, Seventh Day Adventist minister Colin Cook founded Homosexuals
Anonymous (HA). Appearing twice on the Phil Donahue show, he became the face
of the ex-gay movement. But Cook’ career collapsed in 1986 after it was
discovered he was giving nude massages to clients. Cook moved to Colorado
and made a comeback in 1992 by helping Colorado for Family Values and Focus
on the Family promote anti-gay campaigns. In 1995, Cook’ efforts once again
unraveled after several of his clients accused him of engaging in phone sex,
inappropriate hugs and other unethical behavior.
* In 1987, Jeremy Marks founded Courage, London’ first “ex-gay” ministry. In
2001, after nearly 15 years of watching people – including himself –
struggle in vain to “change”, he renounced Exodus, saying that they were
failing in their efforts to change peoples’ sexual orientation.
* Desert Stream ministries acknowledged in their Mid-Year 2001 Report that,
“At the end of 2000, we faced an unusual number of Desert-Stream-related
leaders who fell into sexual sin, or who at least demonstrated a colossal
lack of wisdom in their social choices…Several were placed on different
plans of discipline and restoration.”
* In its Summer 2003 newsletter, Portland Fellowship announced that its
long-time director Phil Hobizal was stepping down because of an “emotional
entanglement” with a man.
* In Sept. 2007, ex-gay therapist Christopher Austin was convicted of
sexually assaulting a client. Austin was sentenced to 10 years in prison,
but received seven years probation, had to register as a sex offender and
was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine. Austin had started Renew Ministries, a
counseling center run out of a church in Irving. He was affiliated with the
National Association For Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).
Indeed, Austin taught a seminar at NARTH’ 2004 annual convention entitled,
“Understanding and Treating Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Men with
Value-Incongruent Homosexual Issues: A Multidimensional Approach.”
* In 2007, the website “Beyond Ex-Gay” was founded by Peterson Toscano, who
was involved in ex-gay ministries for fifteen years. He, along with the GLBT
advocacy SoulForce, held an Ex-Gay Survivors Conference in Irvine,
California. The event included more than a hundred victims of ex-gay
organizations and highlighted the harm of these groups.
* In 2002, therapist Richard Cohen, former president of Parents and Friends
of Ex-Gays (PFOX) and head of the International Healing Foundation (IHF) was
permanently expelled form the American Counseling Association.