Here comes Vice-President Pence.
Gonna convert ya!
Posted on 01/24/2018 10:24:40 AM PST by reaganaut1
In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida, I was subjected to a trauma that was meant to erase my existence as a newly out bisexual. My parents were Southern Baptist missionaries who believed the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy could “cure” my sexuality.
I sat on a couch over two years and endured emotionally painful sessions with a counselor. I was told that my faith community rejected my sexuality; that I was the abomination we had heard about in Sunday school; that I was the only gay person in the world; that it was inevitable I would get H.I.V. and AIDS.
But we didn’t stop with these hurtful talk-therapy sessions. The therapist ordered me bound to a table to have ice, heat and electricity applied to my body. I was forced to watch clips on a television of gay men holding hands, hugging and having sex. I was supposed to associate those images with the pain I was feeling to once and for all turn me into a straight boy. In the end it didn’t work. But I would say that it did, just to make the pain go away.
I have begun to repair the damage that conversion therapy caused me and my family. But the failed promise of change has likely caused a permanent tear in our relationship.
Many think that conversion therapy — the snake oil idea that you can forcibly change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity — is an artifact of the past, a medieval torture practice. But in fact it is still legal in 41 states, including so-called progressive ones like New York and Massachusetts. New York City only fully banned the practice last month.
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Most homosexuals were sexually assaulted as children.
Banning “conversion therapy” is banning RAPE COUNSELING!!!!!!
Hell, used to be we’d just beat the gay out of ‘em.
Or a least get it tamped down where it wasn’t noticeable.
Let’s see...90% of all children experiencing gender dysphoria self
correct to their birth gender if simply left alone. But we are supposed to believe that the same youth experiencing same sex attraction confusion couldn’t possibly self correct in the same time frame, much less at all?
I was tortured in a dentist’s chair. Hey, some dentists are better than others. :)
IF this is true, then the therapist went well beyond any reasonable therapeutic methods.
“IF this is true, then the therapist went well beyond any reasonable therapeutic methods.”
That, or he was filming a bondage porno
TheTherapist shmerapist. This is the kind of stuff he was doing with his boyfriend who was into S&M and gay porn. Transparent lie.therapistordered me bound to a table to have ice, heat and electricity applied to my body. I was forced to watch clips on a television of gay men holding hands, hugging and having sex. …
Isn’t GCT a normal part of an American public education these days? That sword cuts both ways.
. . . oh, just shut and get back in the closet.
They use that word torture.
I am not sure it means what they think it means.
If people are truly tortured, I think we would have heard that by now. I guess nowadays if someone is made uncomfortable, it can be defined as torture.
Homosexuality is a MENTAL DISORDER... its removal from the DSM was PURELY political, no scientific evidence existed then, or now that shows that it is anything but a mental disorder.
To say someone who knows they need help cannot get it is evil.
Not advocating whatever therapy this is, but this born gay thing, is nonsense.
Overwhelming majority of homosexual males fall into a few categories... sexually abused as children, overbearing mothers and/or absentee or cold father. Another is just stuck in adolescent desire for other male acceptance...and discover they can get what they believe to be “acceptance” by exchanging sexual acts with men.
Its a sick and disgusting world, filled with abuse, use and inhumanity. To claim they are “just like everyone else” is a flat out lie. They need help, not pandering
I say he’s lying. If this were true, as soon as this kid could get to the phone, he’d have called the police and had this guy charged for sexual assault or sexual battery.
Charges not brought, even now? No names named, even now? He’s lying.
“The therapist ordered me bound to a table to have ice, heat and electricity applied to my body.” Bull crap.
Meadow muffins.
5.56mm
and yet, we still send rapists and pedophiles off to country club prisons to "rehabilitate"....
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