Gay Conversn Therapy: The Most Shockg Facts

Contents:

• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
• MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
• A SURVIVOR OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SHAR HIS CHILLG STORY
• AFTER RIPPON: SEARCHG FOR CLARY ON MIKE PENCE'S STANCE ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY
• THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY' ADVOT HEARTENED BY REPUBLIN ELECTORAL VICTORI

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

It has been discreded by the medil tablishment and nounced by gay and transgenr Pence’s spokman, Marc Lotter, nied to The Tim over the weekend that the vice print-elect supports the practice, sayg a past mpaign statement had been misterpreted. Groups rema skeptil, potg to his rerd of opposn to gay rights as a member of Congrs and as ernor of Indiana and an approvg reference to nversn therapy the 2016 Republin Party, what is nversn therapy, and why is Mr. ”Conversn therapy has been nmned by a range of groups, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, which said was based on the view that homosexualy is a disorr, an ia “that has been rejected by all the major mental health profsns.

”Brothers on a Road Ls Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop beg attracted to other men, said s method clus velopg “an ternal sense of masculy” and “disverg our te needs unrlyg some of our homosexual longgs and triggers.

MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE

”There are equently relig overton to nversn therapy, which is often promoted by groups wh ti to nservative Christian anizatns like Foc on the Fay, which says on s webse that “homosexual stgglers” n “leave homosexualy” wh the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymo or by “beg more like J. ”Rece Prieb, the chairman of the Republin Party and the g Whe Hoe chief of staff, told reporters that the language did not refer to nversn therapy, but gay and transgenr groups did not believe him.

“One is ex-gay nversn therapy and the other is transgenr hormone therapy, and I hardly believe that Tony Perks was puttg a plank the Republin Party platform endorsg the rights of parents to provi their children wh transgenr hormone therapy.

MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED

In October 2016, an image appeared on social media accg Indiana's ernor (and Republin printial nomee Donald Tmp's nng mate) Mike Pence of supportg "gay nversn" therapy, particularly the e of electric shocks as part of the practice:.

Although he didn't say so outright, the posn has been wily terpreted as signalg Pence's support for "gay nversn" therapy, which seeks to "cure" patients of beg attracted to members of the same sex.

A SURVIVOR OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SHAR HIS CHILLG STORY

Acrdg to the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, electric shocks were one of the techniqu ed to addrs homosexualy through "aversn therapy" prr to the group's cisn 1973 to stop classifyg as a mental disorr. The potential risks of reparative therapy are great, cludg prsn, anxiety and self-stctive behavr, sce therapist alignment wh societal prejudic agast homosexualy may rerce self-hatred already experienced by the patients who have unrgone reparative therapy relate that they were accurately told that homosexuals are lonely, unhappy dividuals who never achieve acceptance or satisfactn. The possibily that the person might achieve happs and satisfyg terpersonal relatnships as a gay man or lbian is not prented, nor are alternative approach to alg wh the effects of societal stigmatizatn discsed.

On 12 November 2016, the Nevada County Soper web se published an article reportg on Vice Print-elect Mike Pence's "surprise announcement" to Fox News that gay "nversn therapy" helped save his marriage by helpg him to rist "certa urg":. The ntroversial Republin, who was elected the 50th ernor of the Hoosier State, has been a long-time proponent of a “Biblil view” on homosexualy and as a member of Congrs stated that the legislative branch “should oppose any effort to regnize homosexuals as a ‘discrete and sular mory’ entled to the protectn of anti-discrimatn laws siar to those extend to women and ethnic mori.

AFTER RIPPON: SEARCHG FOR CLARY ON MIKE PENCE'S STANCE ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY

Pence has prevly supported the ia of g feral fundg to treat people "seekg to change their sexual behavr, " but he didn't state outright such fundg should extend to electroshock therapy, which was part of anti-gay "aversn therapy" treatments until the Amerin Psychologil Associatn announced 1973 that they would stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr. "Conversn therapy, also known as reparative therapy or ex-gay therapy, has been wily discreded by an overwhelmg majory of health re anizatns, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organizatn and even the Department of Health and Human Servic durg the Obama Amerins who have been subjected to nversn therapy are nearly six tim more likely to report high levels of prsn and eight tim more likely to have attempted suici, acrdg to date, 20 stat and more than 80 ci have outlawed attempts to change the sexual orientatns or genr inti of mors. "In some ways, the culture has creasgly moved away om nversn therapy: Ex-gay lears like John Plk have lled "bunked and discreded" and nmned s apparent prence the 2016 Republin Party platform, which stated support for the "right of parents to terme the proper medil treatment and therapy for their mor children.

1, 2016Sce the time that Mike Pence was chosen as Donald Tmp's nng mate July, he has faced plats om groups cril of his rerd on gay and transgenr rights, who said he has long been an opponent of the gas ma by the LGBT muny recent has been particularly dogged by accatns that he is a supporter of "nversn therapy, " the practice of tryg to change someone's sexual orientatn or genr inty. It has been discreded by the medil tablishment and nounced by gay and transgenr spokman Marc Lotter nied to the New York Tim over the weekend that the vice print-elect supports the practice, sayg a past mpaign statement had been misterpreted.

LGBT groups rema skeptil, potg to his rerd of opposn to gay rights as a member of Congrs and as ernor of Indiana and an approvg reference to nversn therapy the 2016 Republin Party is nversn therapy?

THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

"Conversn therapy has been nmned by a range of groups, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, which said was based on the view that homosexualy is a disorr, an ia "that has been rejected by all the major mental health profsns.

After listg his opposn to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimatn laws that protect gay people, Pence's webse tak up the issue of the Ryan Whe Care Act, which provis feral fundg for HIV/AIDS patients and was rethorized by Congrs that year:"Congrs should support the rethorizatn of the Ryan Whe Care Act only after pletn of an d to ensure that feral dollars were no longer beg given to anizatns that celebrate and enurage the typ of behavrs that facilate the spreadg of the HIV vis. Gay and transgenr groups see that as a reference to their up wh Tampa Bay’s top headlSubscribe to our ee DayStarter newsletterWe’ll liver the latt news and rmatn you need to know every ’re all signed up! "Rece Prieb, the chairman of the Republin Party and the g Whe Hoe chief of staff, told reporters that the language did not refer to nversn therapy, but gay and transgenr groups did not believe him.

GAY 'NVERSN THERAPY' ADVOT HEARTENED BY REPUBLIN ELECTORAL VICTORI

Pence said "the great vast majory of the psychologil muny says homosexualy at a very mimum is a choice by the dividual, and at the maximum, is a learned behavr, " CNN reported. ”The Hoe chamber epted an ovatn – and among the first to stand appldg was Vice Print Mike that don’t seem like the rponse one would expect om an anti-gay bigot who supports so-lled “gay nversn therapy, ” that’s bee isn’t.

Dpe false accatns ma agast him, Mike Pence is not a gay man myself – and someone who not only r eply about the issu but advoted on behalf of the LGBT muny myself for years – this is not an assertn I make TRUMP'S PLAN TO END THE HIV EPIDEMIC AND WHAT SPARKED ITThere is absolutely nothg – nothg at all – Mike Pence’s rerd to dite he se himself as a culture warrr who believ LGBT Amerins are the false accatns that the evangelil stalwart is a vilent homophobe who went out of his way to target gay people for harassment, opprsn, and even physil torture have dogged Pence for claim rurfaced last week, when lbian actrs Ellen Page appeared as a gut on “The Late Show wh Stephen Colbert” on CBS.

Page ed a discsn of the recent alleged racist and homophobic hate crime agast “Empire” televisn star Jsie Smollet to cricize the vice is absolutely nothg – nothg at all – Mike Pence’s rerd to dite he se himself as a culture warrr who believ LGBT Amerins are the enemy. ”Page’s words reprent a distillatn of every anti-gay charge that has ever been hurled at Mike Pence – and they’re all the root of the vice print’s erroneo mislabelg as an anti-gay extremist is Pence’s admtedly poor handlg of the passage of Indiana’s versn of the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act 2015 durg his term as ernor of the legislatn asserted that ernment “may not substantially burn a person's exercise of relign” – a rather specific law wh narrow applitns. ” Of urse, that wasn’t the se, but the false narrative spread across the natn, sparkg went on the offensive, clarg: “If I saw a rtrant owner refe to serve a gay uple, I wouldn't eat there anymore, ” while llg for a détente between advot of relig liberty and those workg toward LGBT kerfuffle nclud wh jt such a rapprochement.