You n't pray the gay away': Wh Jam O'Brien." data-id="ma
Contents:
- YOU THK YOU N PRAY AWAY THE GAY. YOU N'T PRAY AWAY THE GAY...
- IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
- YOU N'T PRAY THE GAY AWAY'
YOU THK YOU N PRAY AWAY THE GAY. YOU N'T PRAY AWAY THE GAY...
Callie: You thk you n pray away the gay. You n't pray away the gay! * you can't pray away the gay episode *
You thk you n pray away the gay.
You n't pray away the gay! The revelatns surroundg Marc Bachmann's psychotherapy practice along wh his statements equatg gay people to barbarians reflect the eply held view among too many people that homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice that n be altered and ed should be. As someone who profs to help gays and lbians bee "straight, " Dr.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
There are several nservative relig anizatns, like Exod Internatnal and Homosexuals Anonymo, that claim to have helped people change their sexual orientatn through prayer, unselg, or a batn of both. Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual. The bt-known group of such clicians is the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), led by psychologist Joseph Nilosi.
YOU N'T PRAY THE GAY AWAY'
He and his followers claim that gays and lbians suffer om a damagg blend of childhood trma, shamg their fai of orig, and chronic unmet needs for love and affectn om their same-sex parents. Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients bee heterosexual by workg wh them to amelrate toxic feelgs stemmg om their damaged childhoods. Robert Spzer, a proment psychiatrist who, oddly enough, led the charge to remove homosexualy as a disease om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, had unrtaken rearch wh 200 women and men who unrwent reparative therapy and believed themselv to be "cured" of homosexualy, as evinced by their abily to engage sexual relatns wh the oppose sex, marry heterosexually, and nceive children.