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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“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.”
Misprint. Should read “the rapist” rather than “therapist.”
No. Torture is NOT legal in any state. No, it is not legal to show children homosexual porn videos. Ironically, homosexual advocates like this creep want to legalize those thing but outlaw attempts to help people escape sex addictions.
This guy is a pervert and liar. Whether he was tortured or not, I don’t know. But the homosexual lobby, of which he is a part, wants to criminalize any attempt to help those struggling with homosexual feelings.
The argument that “conversion therapy” is torture is propaganda.
What about the torture being propagated against normal people to get them to convert into sexually perverse people?
[Kid should read his Bible. He’s not going to like what the Lord has to say about it.]
It’s in the BOOK. That’s the way it will be.
“In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida...”
Middle schoolers are mostly prepubescent and therefore don’t come “out” as anything, unless they are twisted by being sexually abused, or indoctrinated by perverts, or crying out for attention...
That “conversion therapy” is shameful and unbiblical. You can’t conversion therapy sin out of someone.
Man, Matt Damon is really getting weird these days...
What a pack of lies.
None of this ever happened, much less in the 21st Century.
Most of this type of therapy, which isn’t usually physical pain application, isn’t intended to “change” a person’s sexual proclivities, but simply to cope with and lessen some problematic urges which lead to risky behavior.
Even this innocuous treatment is roundly condemned by the sodomite left as “harmful.”
It's not true. This is a radical homosexual activist talking, after all. Lies are their native tongue.
The lobotomized leftoid comments at the article need some “help.”
Does the Slimes allow dissenting voices?
He saw “A Clockwork Orange” a few too many times.
Homosexuals kill themselves at much higher rates than the general population anyway.
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Barf bucket.
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>> “birth gender?”
That which is born cannot have “Gender.”
Gender is a false sexual connotation for Latin nouns and their modifiers.
If its alive, it has a sex.
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How about the ceaseless promotion of sexual depravity in advertising, on TV, in the movies, magazines and music. It propagation through false science taught in our schools at our expense. It’s even expanded by our justice system, legislatures and government controlled health care. In other words we are steeped in it 24/7/365. The weak willed fall prey to it.
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Exactly.
Democrats want this banned so they are using someone to come up with some outrageous lie to do so. It’s a tactic they’ve used for a long time.
This list of “gay” hoaxes is longer than both my arms and legs, and growing.
I assume homosexuals say Sunday school in order to avoid/deny what G-d said. One thing I don’t understand about Jenner: he knows G-d’s against transsexuality, so how can he claim to be a Christian?
Did he kill himself because of the therapy, or was that a result of his f*cked upness? If the first, how much did the parents receive from their law suit?
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