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5 Surprising Facts About Gay Conversion Therapy
LiveScience ^ | June 4, 2013 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 06/04/2013 8:15:15 PM PDT by EveningStar

Gay Therapy

Gay conversion therapy, as it is known, supposedly helps gay people overcome same-sex attractions. But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful, exacerbating anxiety and self-hatred among those treated for what is not a mental disorder.

In 2013, two cases involving the therapy to convert gay people into heterosexuals hit the courts, with one seeking to sue counselors who offer the therapy and the other seeking to defend them.

Here are five things you need to know about the therapy and the current lawsuits.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gay; gayconversiontherapy; gaykkk; gaystapo; homofascists; homosexual; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; reparativetherapy; robertspitzer; scientology; sodomhusseinobama; spitzer; therapy
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Ask for the barf alert and move on. Most freepers are smart enough to delve a little to see what’s up.

Yeah, but it was a waste of people's time.

121 posted on 06/07/2013 4:00:33 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Hey, get a room!


122 posted on 06/07/2013 4:06:20 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: EveningStar; little jeremiah; HiTech RedNeck
When I see an article that I think may be of interest to others, I post it. I may agree with it. I may disagree with it. I may have no opinion at all about it. Most of my opinions are pretty ordinary anyway, so I don't always feel like stating them (sometimes I do state my opinion, of course). However, I am interested in the opinions of others.

Here's my opinion: in view that the owner of this site has made it abundantly clear that homosexualist promotion is not welcome here, you could push yourself a little to understand that when you are using his bandwidth, you might type a few more characters and make your position clear.

Or, you could save yourself and all the rest of us a lot of dyspepsia over nothing by refraining from posting pro-homosexualist opinion. Assuming that you can tell the difference. If you can't, just do us all a favor and don't post anything more about it; just give that entire topic a very wide margin.

123 posted on 06/07/2013 4:27:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: Albion Wilde; HiTech RedNeck

When an article is posted that is lying propaganda, many of us feel it is important - a duty, even - to make comments showing that the propaganda is such, either refuting with facts, or at the very least, calling it what it is.

Reason? Well, lies should not be allowed to stand unchallenged, for the sake of Truth itself. Also, people reading it who are not knowlegeable, might be misled.

When people post propaganda articles without refuting them or stating “barf alert/this is propaganda” etc, and do this repeatedly, it is clear that the poster of said articles agrees with the propaganda; the only other reason would be a person who enjoys putting turds in the punch.


124 posted on 06/07/2013 5:47:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

Right you are!


125 posted on 06/07/2013 5:50:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Absolutlely, God’s unmistakable fingerprints, all over the place, every which way you look.


126 posted on 06/07/2013 5:50:34 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Albion Wilde

In fact, those very reasons are precisely why man of us post comments on FR!


127 posted on 06/07/2013 5:53:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Albion Wilde

I feel it proved useful... for those with actual constructive answers, like I am trying to provide about the Lord’s work.


128 posted on 06/07/2013 6:16:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I want to give SATAN dyspepsia... I care much less about people’s dyspepsia. A gospel ambush, as it were....


129 posted on 06/07/2013 6:17:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: little jeremiah

Little Jeremiah, since the posts were deleted I didn’t see them and can’t comment intelligently on why they were deleted.

While I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when they have more information than I do regarding how they use that information — especially when they’re fellow conservatives — I am also the first one to say that we all make mistakes.


130 posted on 06/08/2013 4:33:13 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: HiTech RedNeck
113 posted on 6/6/2013 8:47:40 PM by HiTech RedNeck: “Someone who views the gospel as ‘rage’ is in a pretty sad position.”

We certainly agree on that.

131 posted on 06/08/2013 4:36:37 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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