Posted on 11/27/2012 8:56:25 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Before Sheldon Bruck told his orthodox Jewish parents he was gay, the teenager looked for a way out of homosexuality.
His search led him to JONAH -- Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing -- which claimed on its website to help people "struggling with unwanted same-sex sexual attractions."
JONAH co-director Arthur Goldberg promised Bruck, then 17, that "JONAH could help him change his orientation from gay to straight," according to a consumer fraud lawsuit filed Tuesday against JONAH, Goldberg and a JONAH counselor.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Isn’t this like fat people suing restaurants? It’s your choice if you choose to go to one.
“Unger’s ability to have physical and emotional relationships with men was impaired...”
Is that supposed to be a complaint or a statement that the therapy was at least partially successful?
Well... there’s bad relationships (lust) and good ones (friendships, brotherly love). If it’s the lust part that suffered... well shoot. This is going to get chucked out of any sane court (of course it could be queered by a gay judge, pun intended) post haste.
What’s the matter girls? Afraid they’re right?
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I would only disagree with your post in that I think the real goal here is to completely destroy Judeo-Christian ethics, and all else become secondary.
We both believe the same thing, I’m just saying it a little different. I doubt you disagree.
The big three cannot survive in Judeo-Christian ethical environment.
Marxism, Communism, Socialism... these three have always thrown Christianity under the bus as soon as they could. It’s too powerful a competitor.
God given rights... ooooh noooooo! “The light, the light..., Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Homosexuals know that they are the result of indoctrination and not nature. They must recruit and they hate anyone recruiting back.
I still think that some entrepreneur could make a fortune building a conversion center just across the border from California in Arizona.
Likewise the place could sell Arizona configured gasoline at half the price of the California blend, goose pate, liquor, make a deal with the western tribes to sell much lower taxed cigarettes, etc.
Put up a big sign, “Get your bent kids straightened here!”
I wouldn’t be surprised to find this Bruck guy entered into this “therapy” never intending to change. Now he can hit the lecture circuit and bash all gay therapy programs as bad or ineffective. It’s what the gay movement wants—you can’t change their “inborn” nature is their mantra.
It’s much like Anti-Mormons joining the Mormon Church (under false pretenses) then a few months later leaving amid a great fanfare of sudden “revelation” that the Mormons are wrong—and now they hit the Anti lecture circuit as “Former Mormons” with some secret insight into the Mormon Church.
trying to help people with mental illness is bad now... we must celebrate the mental illness.... jeesh
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Some years ago, we had a homosexual friend/acquaintance who was dying of AIDS. In the months before his death, he "got religion" and destroyed all his homo porn because he saw it as a real threat to his salvation. I pray that James made it because you could see the internal struggle and the realization of what his lifestyle had cost him. I really have no idea of whether one can be born homosexual or be turned that way; much less if one can become "straight", but I have known several who have sworn off the lifestyle and I admire them because even run-of-the-mill vices can be hard to overcome. All of them got involved in a church and used the strength of God's Word and those who love the Lord as a foundation for their changes in lifestyle.
funny, the same can certainly be said of homosexuality.
“Downing initiated a discussion about Levin’s body and instructed Levin to stand in front of a full-length mirror and hold a staff,” the suit said. “Downing directed Levin to say one negative thing about himself, remove an article of clothing, then repeat the process. Although Levin protested and expressed discomfort, at Downing’s insistence, Levin submitted and continued until he was fully naked. Downing then instructed Levin to touch his penis and then his buttocks. Levin, unsure what to do but trusting in and relying on Downing, followed the instructions, upon which Downing said ‘good’ and the session ended.”
If this is legit, I am shocked that it didn’t work. I mean come on. I imagine one would stop being gay just to end the weird creepiness of the sessions. I suppose it did work for one guy in a way:
“Unger’s ability to have physical and emotional relationships with men was impaired and he was unable to work for a year, the suit said.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Freegards
That is true. I remember in my 'pre-Christian' days I always bought the line that 'everyone is basically good' -- with only a few deviant exceptions. The Bible hits you over the head with a two by four, and tells you that you are a sinner. There is none righteous, no not one. Our first parents were taken in by the sin of pride and covetousness, and they have spawned a race of covetous and prideful children. You are also right that we focus on one besetting sin, but then we find that we are just peeling an onion. Thank God we have a Loving God and Saviour that came for sinners and adopts us into His family as we are. Once we are in the family we endeavor to clean up our act to please He who saved us -- albeit we know we will never get completely there until we see Him in Heaven.
Sounds like something designed by an egghead psychologist who might be brilliant but with little or no appreciation of how the real world works. I guess they’d call this the creep-out method, huh. Christian ministries don’t do weird stuff like that.
This is just another attempt to discredit ex-gays, conversion therapy, and the power of God all in one, just like the Marcus Bachmann “exposé”.
Even in a “neutral” world, something like this would likely catch news eyes. I have to give them kudos for good intentions, but come on.
Prayers for them... they did more than many of us in trying to overcome their sin.
Couldn’t detect whether that was sarcasm or not.
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