ABC News Confirms Bachmann Clinic Used "Pray Away The Gay' Therapy

Business Insider ^ | 07/11/2011 | Grace Wyler

[SeekAndFind]

An ABC News story tonight confirmed rumors that the Christian counseling clinic owned by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus Bachmann offered therapy to help "convert" homosexuals to heterosexuals. The "World News" report featured an interview with a former patient at the Bachmann & Associates clinic, Andrew Ramirez, who first visited the counseling center as a 17-year-old in 2004.

"[One counselor's] path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," Ramirez told ABC News. "And God would forgive me if I were straight."

Ramirez story, first reported by The Nation, is backed up by an undercover video at the clinic, which shows a counselor telling a gay man that he can be "totally free" of his homosexual feelings through prayer and hard work.

Mr. Bachmann has previously denied that his clinic offers "ex-gay" treatments, known as reparative therapy. The American Psychiatric Association does not condone the practice, and has said it might have potentially harmful mental health consequences.

[dsm69]

I had the misfortune to catch this evenings ABC News/Propaganda broadcast and they led off their show with this story here on the west coast.

ABC News deserves a sponsor boycott big time for stories like this. It is too bad that prominent conservatives or even prominent supporters of Michelle Bachmann won’t initiate a sponsor boycott against ABC News for this, to make an example out of ABC News - Chase away most of their ‘Mainstream’ sponsors like the small handfull of marxists did to Glenn Beck’s old Fox News show.

I almost fell off my chair watching Diane Sawyer and this reporter Dennis Ross(?) trying to paint Bachmann out like she and her husband are some type of sadist criminals or monsters for trying to convert homos to heteros. Last I checked, none of the homos who showed up at the Bachmann’s clinic went there against their will.

[Oztrich Boy]

They do not even have the decency to refer his as “Dr. Bachmann.”

Yeah I wouldn't push that. His sheepskin isn't all that good.

Bachmann is looking more and more like the candidate you really don't want.

[Eagle Eye]

An ABC News story tonight confirmed rumors that the Christian counseling clinic owned by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus Bachmann offered therapy to help "convert" homosexuals to heterosexuals.

Beats sucking a baby from a woman's womb.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Lots of big donor purses snapped shut today.

On the same day Team Bachmann announces the hiring of two big shot establishment fund raisers.

[ngat]

Bachmann isn’t my first (or even second) choice, but what is wrong with Dr. Bachmann’s degree?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Mail order.

[TankerKC]

Did ABC News find out anything about Barack Obama?

[ichabod1]

It almost always starts with child sexual abuse.

[Torahman]

In the Age of Moshiach there will be not one homosexual. The Torah forbids it. There will be nothing that offends the structured order of the universe. There will be mercy, forgiveness even, but the Torah will be written on the heart and all “Shall know me” from the greatest to the least. There will be no prisons, no war, and no perversity. Only love that brings forth life. Hold on children, The Morning Star is rising, with healing in his wings. Come home to Torah.

[Torahman]

In the Age of Moshiach there will be not one homosexual. The Torah forbids it. There will be nothing that offends the structured order of the universe. There will be mercy, forgiveness even, but the Torah will be written on the heart and all “Shall know me” from the greatest to the least. There will be no prisons, no war, and no perversity. Only love that brings forth life. Hold on children, The Morning Star is rising, with healing in his wings. Come home to Torah.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I’ll have to take your word for that, however I believe guilt is still a big reason people stay in the lifestyle.

[Big Horn]

I believe God can do anything.

[trumandogz]

“His sheepskin isn’t all that good.”

Nor lambskin.

[princess leah]

“If my people, who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land”

We can’t even get step 1 down here in America (humble? - while our leader is so arrogant?)

[princess leah]

“If my people, who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land”

We can’t even get step 1 down here in America (humble? - while our leader is so arrogant?)

[GLDNGUN]

The taring and feathering has begun.

Exactly. This is 100% predictable. The MSM helps to build up MB to "tweak" SP (or so they think). Once MB gets a lot more visibility and rising poll numbers to the top...BOOM, they knock her down. I predict that MB will drop out of the race because of what the MSM will do to her and her family now that she has arrived at/near the top of the GOP polls. I predict that Perry will also NOT run out of fear for what they will dig up on him. That will leave the door wide open for SP, who will ultimately answer the call and RUN. Yes, she'll run Zer0bama right into the ground.

[BunnySlippers]

If so, she seems like a nut case.

[Gondring]

Well, Christine O’Donnell didn’t have too much luck with the old “convert to heterosexuality through prayer and move in with me” idea...remember Wade Richards?

[GR_Jr.]

Can her clinic help this guy???

[RINOs suck]

The American Psyc Ass does not like Prayer for Homosexuality

They don't like it because they have been taken over by leftist with agenda that is no more credible than leftists promoting global warming nonsense.

If you want to spew their leftist crap here, you should for the ignoramus you are.