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An openly gay and Christian psychologist says gay nversn therapy nearly killed him and some of his clients and the sooner is outlawed the better.

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GAY NVERSN THERAPY IS HAPPENG SECRET ATRALIA, REPORT FDS

There are lls for Tasmania to ban so-lled gay nversn therapy by the end of the year to prevent the island state om beg a "dumpg ground" for the practice — but the Catholic Archbishop has "grave ncerns" about what se as a "threat to relig eedoms". * gay conversion camp australia *

After he had gay sex for the first time, church lears asked Benson to renounce Baal (an Old Ttament god of the Phoenicians) and exorcise the spir of sodomy. "The vil won't have a chance wh you now, " they told cycled back home wh his school bag on his back, and that was the last time he went to gay nversn therapy. Produced by the Human Rights Law Centre, Gay and Lbian Health Victoria, and La Trobe Universy, the report has found nversn practic are not recedg, but are enterg the mastream wh particular Christian report provis the first amic rearch on the LGBT nversn movements least 10 anisatns Atralia and New Zealand currently advertise the provisn of nversn therapi, acrdg to the report.

"It's lled 'unwanted same-sex attractn'When Benson hopped on his bike every Wednday and cycled to the lol church, he didn't thk he was attendg gay nversn therapy. " Exampl of morn gay nversn therapy quasi-psychologil approach is typil of current gay nversn therapy practic, acrdg to Dr Jon.

All Atralian health thori, cludg the Christian Counsellors Associatn of Atralia, now "strongly oppose any form of mental health practice that treats homosexualy as a disorr, or seeks to change a person's sexual orientatn". However, existg laws and regulatns erng registered medil profsnals and healthre servic provi important Victoria, sce 2016, the Health Complats Commissner has had the power to vtigate and rpond to plats of gay nversn therapy. 'I was the secretly gay pta of a private Christian school'Prime Mister Stt Morrison refed to le out the proposal, and a member of his party, Liberal MP Alex Hawke, exprsed rponse, some church lears and headmasters of private Christian schools have taken a stand agast the proposal, sayg is harmful to Jon said he was anx about releasg the nversn therapy report, which has already been layed by the same-sex marriage plebisce, at this time.

GAY NVERSN SURVIVOR WARNS UNLS TASMANIA BANS OUTRIGHT, 'TREATMENT' ULD TAKE OFF

A SHOCKING new report has tailed the extent of gay nversn therapy Atralia. * gay conversion camp australia *

When Chris Csabs was around 12 years old, he overheard a nversatn between two men at his church, rellg a time when a gay man me off the street for pots:The lear of the Catholic Church Tasmania has exprsed "grave" ncerns over remendatns to ban nversn practicTasmania's Liberal Premier has backed the ban on the practic, which aim to "cure" a person of their homosexualyEqualy activists warn Tasmania uld bee a "haven" for the practic unls they are banned outrightThe churchgoers were discsg how "seven homosexual mons me out of that man". Chris Csabs said stat and terrori which do not ban gay nversn risk beg plac that "attract people who want to do those sorts of thgs". (ABC News: Le Bown)Tasmania at risk of beg a 'dumpg ground' Advot for a ban on gay nversn practic Tasmania have lnched a new petn followg the recent release of a TLRI report remendg the ernment take petn has been signed by almost 1, 000 people sce was listed on the Tasmanian parliament webse and is sponsored by Kristie Johnston MHA, pennt member for the Hobart seat of Clark.

A SHOCKING new report has tailed the extent of gay nversn therapy landmark report, nducted by La Trobe Universy and the Human Rights Law Centre, highlights disturbg ttimoni om people who went through a form of gay nversn therapy — some willgly, others by force — an attempt to bee rights groups have universally nmned the practice for the eply harmful physil, psychologil and emotnal impact has on those who take nversn therapy emerged the early 1970s, wh relig lears claimg was possible to “ee one’s self” om homosexualy through their 1978, Peter Lane found Liberty Mistry — Atralia’s first “ex-gay” mistry — although the report suggts nversn therapy programs were offered prr to practic mostly emerged om nservative Prottant Christian muni, although the rearchers note n be found all the major programs entailed var activi aimed at “repairg” one’s sexual orientatn, fiance of medil, psychiatric and psychologil the early 1990s, the ex-gay movement had gone global, and by 2002 Atralia and New Zealand, there were over 30 ex-gay mistri *, now 48 years old, was sent to nversn therapy after she told her mother she was love wh another young woman at her church parents and extend fay were missnari and misters who shut her away a mental hospal when she was jt 17 years told the rearchers she was ma to s a bath full of ice cub while Bible vers were read to her over and over aga, of beg handcuffed to her bed at night and prived of sleep.

SHOCKG NEW REPORT TAILS THE EXTENT OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY ATRALIA

Attorney-General Jill Hennsey says her ernment is nsultg wh hundreds of people as prepar laws to ban the "harmful" practice of gay nversn therapy. * gay conversion camp australia *

”Mark* said he had been aware of his same-sex attractn for as long as he uld remember, but he didn’t e out until had been married to a woman for 30 years and had six children, but they thought he uld jt “pray away the gay” s, he attempted to get rid of his same-sex sir, but the task proved impossible.

”Counsellors gave him the narrative of “overbearg mother, absent father”, and he said at one pot, the unsellor almost nvced him he had been sexually abed as a child, which he hadn’*, now 44, was part of an ex-gay program two years told the rearchers his group would meet every fortnight to watch DVD ttimoni om ex-gay church lears. Members would pray together, read different ex-gay ttimoni and discs Bible passag that evangelil Christians ed as evince of homosexualy beg a also said he’d be forced to lie to unsellors who asked him about his progrs: “She sort of asked, ‘Are you fdg women attractive? Dpe this, as the natn ntu to bate eedom of relign, Prime Mister Stt Morrison said the bate around gay nversn was “not an issue for him” asked about the practice last month, he told Melbourne rad statn 3AW: “I rpect people of all sexuali, I rpect people of all religns, all fahs.

”Over the weekend, Mr Morrison backflipped on the explosive issue of whether relig schools had a right to reject gay ernment pledged to change existg laws to prevent discrimatn, by removg the abily of any school to exclu children based on their sexualy. The Victorian Government is nsultg gay nversn 'therapy' survivors as prepar legislatn to outlaw the pots:LGBTQA+ nversn practic have been banned some jurisdictns but are still happeng rmallySurvivors say new laws need to make rmal nversn practic illegalVictorian Attorney-General Jill Hennsy says the Government is nsultg survivors and relig anisatnsConversn 'therapy' is based on false iology that a person's genr or sexual inty n be changed or supprsed through practic rangg om psychiatric treatments such as electro-nvulsn therapy to unsellg therapi and spirual terventn. "We're banng so-lled nversn 'therapy' and makg sure the laws we put place end this harmful, cel, and bigoted practice once and for all, " Ms Hennsy the age of 15, Patrick McIvor was told he was 'sexually broken' and as an adult he tried everythg he uld to be the 33-year-old, who now intifi as gay, believ he was livg a lie first phed on him by a pastor at his former church.

GAY NVERSN PRACTIC TO BE OUTLAWED BY THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT

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"No one 'villa'On the advice of this pastor, Mr McIvor ntacted an ternatnal anisatn who ran a gay nversn program, which turn referred him to a lol unsellor eastern Victoria. "It is the formal and rmal practic that survivors want outlawed a year of fortnightly meetgs wh a unsellor, Mr McIvor went on to marry his wife on the premise of supprsg his eventually left anised relign, me out aga as gay, and amibly separated om his wife. "'Lost a lot more than my job'Ashe Powell said he had to leave his role as a youth pastor when he me out as gay at a Gippsland church.

Articl, PowerPot and VioFor over four s, ex-gay, reparative, and nversn “therapy” anisatns have preached a ‘change is possible’ msage which has harmed many people psychologilly, emotnally, and has been a steady cle the impact and number of anizatns, particularly Atralia and New Zealand.

CONVERSN “THERAPY”HOMECONVERSN “THERAPY” CONVERSN “THERAPY”ANTHONY VENN-BROWN OAM2023-05-23T17:01:13+10:00FACEBOOK275TWEET0P0LKEDIN0EMAIL0PRT0SHAR275WHAT IS EX-GAY, REPARATIVE & NVERSN “THERAPY”?

Print Alan Chambers admted at a gay Christian nference that no one had actually changed their orientatn and apologised for the harm they had 2000, Anthony Venn-Brown has monored nversn therapy activi Atralia and overseas, challenged false claims ma by dividuals and anisatns, and spoken out about the a plete summary of activi wh a timele and helpful lks.

And wh that, her strict relig parents allegedly moved her to a Christian “mp”, where she would be ma to unrgo psychologilly-damagg therapy to “pray the gay away”, and “nvert” her to a make matters worse, the law prohibs Sarah om leavg until she reach the age of 18, when she will be regnised as a legal, a global mpaign is unrway to see her released om the unnamed facily, anised by the more supportive members of her extend fay. “But when they did that, Sarah’s parents, who believe that homosexualy is a s and abnormal, sent Sarah away agast her will to an East Texas Christian boardg facily for troubled teens to ‘pray away the gay’.

THIS TEENAGER HAS BEEN FORCED TO A GAY NVERSN MP WH NO PE

So stead of beg surround by iends and extend fay who love and support Sarah for who she is, she’ll be isolated a place where the fact that she is gay is treated as a s and an illns. “This is about more than jt one gay kid — if we ee Sarah we n help show that ’s not okay to try to make gay teens straight by sendg them away and g the threat of God agast them. He is now livg a happier life a same-sex last week, a new study om the Southern Poverty Law Center me out, labellg the practice as “monisg” homosexualy and mandg be also lled for public and private surers to refe to reimburse claims ma by “therapists” 2009, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn nducted the world’s biggt study to the fluidy of sexual orientatn.

"Growg up a loud Greek hoehold, Erenie always felt like the odd one sld by her fay for not ftg to the expected genr role, she was labelled a all changed when Erenie's iend ved her to attend church wh her her as their own, this new fay treated her as their dghter, and for the first time her life, Erenie felt this acceptance she had long craved was short-lived, as the fay's stance on homosexualy was clear: Erenie had to stop beg new fay promised to help change her sexual their support, this is when Erenie's journey of exorcisms, prayers and unsellg began. 'Get God and gay out'But after years of failed nversn "therapy", It was suggted that Erenie went to a place lled Mercy people around Erenie, who she loved and tsted, told her to go bee this place uld "fix" left Tasmania to jo Mercy Mistri, whout her parents' was a cisn that would change Erenie's life forever.

My treatment was to get God and gay out, " she s webse, Mercy Mistri said  treated women aged 16 to 28 years old by "providg hom and re for young women sufferg the effects of eatg disorrs, self-harm, abe, prsn, unplanned pregnanci and other life-ntrollg issu" former clients of Mercy Mistri claim they were nied profsnal help and were stead exorcised and told simply to repent their publicy and an vtigatn by the ACCC forced the closure of a ntroversial unsellg program lked to the evangelil Hillsong church.

'GAY NVERSN THERAPY NEARLY KILLED ME': SURVIVOR BACKS NSW PH FOR NATNAL BAN

"They ma believe that we'd actually chosen to be gay, and was a direct rult of our fathers not huggg enough when we were ltle and om listeng to K. (ABC News: Le Bown)'I've ma an appotment for you'It was the late the televisn was clicked on a nservative hoehold southern Tasmania, protts filled the screen as the LGBTQIA+ muny mpaigned for homosexualy to be crimalised the state — somethg that was only achieved Larks's mother labelled the "gay agenda" and said the mpaign was to "rpt fai, rpt children and rec children" a very young age, Bron knew she was different om her six sisters. "The nversn "therapy" went for eight ssns, and Bron was given a tape rerdg to listen to every hypnotherapist's voice played on repeat, wearg her down to believe that homosexuals had somethg herently broken wh their bra, they had experienced fay trma, or that they were jt pretendg to be same-sex attracted for attentn.

"And worst of all, that homosexual people are paedophil and that's what gay people did, rec young children for that, which is not te at all, " Bron says. Confsg he was same-sex attracted, the group put him touch wh a mistry the south of the hearg the mistry uld "heal" homosexualy, Glen jumped the r and drove to meet them. (ABC News: Le Bown)But after 21 years of nversn practic, Glen realised he was still gay and nothg would change cid to embrace his sexualy.

"When I hear om survivors that they have been put through exorcisms bee they're gay, or they've been sent off to mps terstate which are basilly like prison … We have failed them as a society, " he 2019, La Trobe Universy surveyed more than 6, 000 LGBTQIA+ Atralians aged between 14 to 21 years and clud qutns about their experience wh nversn 4 per cent of the group had attend nversn practic through programs, group work, unsellg and terventns that were aimed at changg their sexual or genr inty. Fdgs by La Trobe Universy, the Human Rights Law Centre and Gay and Lbian Health Victoria show nversn therapy “remas a real problem Atralian relig muni, ” wh at least 10 anisatns across Atralia and New Zealand actively advertisg the psdoscientific practice.

TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS

Moreover, the availabily of nversn therapy has also perpetuated ternalised homophobia, self-hatred, and nfn about sexualy and genr inty wh the LGBTQI+ muny.

Openly gay and Christian psychologist and thor Stuart Edser says gay nversn therapy nearly killed him and some of his patients and the sooner is outlawed the pots:The NSW Government wants a natnal approach on gay nversn therapyAdvot say therapy is ak to torturePsychologists fear parents are forcg "broken" kids to therapyThe therapy n volve forcg people to unrgo electric shocks and drk substanc to duce vomg when shown homoerotic are also role-playg exercis where men are forced to do stereotypilly 'blokey' thgs like chattg about football and tkerg wh rs, while women are told to wear feme cloth and apply a full face of Edser said he unrwent a Pentestal style of therapy that volved church elrs prayg and layg their hands on him, as well as performg what he likened to an exorcism to rid him of the mon posssg his body. "Amics slam parents forcg children to therapyTwo NSW amics wh expertise gay nversn therapy say is the terts of human rights and jtice for Atralia to ban the practice Jam Bent om the Universy of Newstle's School of Humani and Social Science said nversn therapy is vastatg, particularly for children whose parents say they need fixg.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS

(Supplied: Profsor Marguere Johnson)NSW seeks natnal approach on a ban at COAGThe NSW Government is seekg a natnal approach on gay nversn therapy and wants health officials to play a Febary, Victoria beme the first state Atralia to outlaw LGBTIQ nversn therapy, but will not be outlawed until next the time, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews scribed the practice as "bigoted quackery" acknowledgg s potential for long-term psychologil harm and Labor has been prsurg the Liberal ernment that state to follow Victoria's lead. "NSW will take the issue of banng gay nversn therapy to the next Council of Atralian Governments (COAG) Health Council meetg and seek to achieve a natnal approach, cludg nsiratn of the role for Health partments, " Mister Hazzard will be several months before the matter is raised, as the next COAG meetg is November, NSW do not currently ban gay nversn therapy, disciplary proceedgs n be taken agast a health practner who provis servic an uhil 2 Aug 2019Fri 2 Aug 2019 at 12:32am, updated 2 Aug 2019Fri 2 Aug 2019 at 1:27am. A new llectn of photos is providg a strikg ― and horrifyg ― visual recreatn of the barbaric practice of gay “nversn therapy” and the impact has on s victims.

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