Did Mike Pence Support 'Gay Conversn' Therapy? |

Contents:

• SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)
• MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS
• 5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.
• THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

SHOCK THE GAY AWAY: SECRETS OF EARLY GAY AVERSN THERAPY REVEALED (PHOTOS)

Wh the recent announcement om Exod Internatnal that is closg s doors, and wh s lears offerg apologi for their actns, the LGBT muny is now left wonrg, "Can this really be the end of ex-gay reparative therapy?

MORMON 'GAY CURE' STUDY USED ELECTRIC SHOCKS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS

" While the dt settl on all of this, we have to remd ourselv that wasn't too long ago that reparative therapi had ls to do wh prayg the gay away and more to do wh physilly removg .

5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Before the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) classified homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, aversn therapy was ed routely hop that would prevent or elimate homosexual behavr.

DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.

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THE MOST SHOCKG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

She lived the rt of her life serly disabled a private psychiatric hospal, along wh most of Freeman's homosexual patients, who were perfect health before the surgery.

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

This cisn occurred agast the backdrop of great cultural shifts brought on by the civil rights movements of the 1950s to the 1970s, begng wh the Ain-Amerin civil rights movement and then ntug on wh the women's and gay rights the late 1960s, Christiany Today began prtg articl and edorials ncerned wh the growg homosexual movement. What we at ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv do know for sure is that the LGBT muny has persevered, regardls of what was hurled at physilly, psychologilly, or spirually, then and now.

"I was never actively gay, never had any enunters wh men -- never had moments when I failed and actually had sex wh other men, " he his unrcurrent of feelgs put him direct nflict wh the Church of J Christ of the Latter-day Sats (LDS) and s prcipl.

"I thought he was my savr, " said Cameron, who enrolled wh 13 other willg subjects, all Mormons who thought they might be gay, for a three- to six-month urse of therapy.

THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

Psychologists nfirm those harsh experiments were ed a variety of medil settgs by scientists of all officials say they no longer support aversn therapy, but a generatn who grew up the 1970s say they have been srred for life bee of well-tentned attempts to change their sexual, the church still steadfastly oppos homosexualy, as wnsed by the lns of dollars support gave to pass California's Proposn 8, which would amend the state's nstutn to outlaw gay P. "The BYU Counselg Center never practiced therapy that would volve chemil or duced vomg, " she, therapi are all "male theraptic approach, " acrdg to Jenks, and all faculty are expected to be licensed and programs universy, which is owned by the Mormon Church, said s policy on homosexualy is le wh Mormon doctre -- today's stunts are not discipled unls they engage sexual activy, and that clus heterosexual sex before marriage. "BYU will rpond to homosexual behavr rather than to feelgs or attractn, and wel as full members of the universy muny all whose behavr meets universy standards, " said Jenks.

"Play About 1976 Shock Therapy OpensCameron, who is now openly gay, wrote a play about his shock therapy experience, "14, " which clus much of McBri's ntroversial dissertatn.

"Connell O'Donovan, who now works at the Universy of California, Santa Cz, told he was sent to BYU 1976 for vom therapy, but uldn't go through wh said s unselg servic never nducted such treatment, but O'Donovan unters that he was evaluated by Joseph Smh Fay Livg Center, another service on 1986, he said he volunteered for "extremely bilatg hypnotherapy" through another Utah unselg center, He said a Mormon tern hypnotized him, spltg him to "Gay Connell" and "Straight Connell. "This is a sensive topic for all parti volved, " said Jsi Moody, an LDS public affairs associateShe referred to official statements on homosexualy on their web stat: "The Lord's law of moral nduct is abstence outsi of lawful marriage and fily wh marriage.