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Contents:

• I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY
• IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"
• CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?

I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY

Disregardg all evince that the ex-gay movement is credibly damagg to more than 90% of those who unrgo "treatment" (bee they clearly jt didn't believe God enough), Settg Captiv Free wants you to know that you were not "born this way. " Homosexualy is a s that you need to purge om your system, and the only way to do is to follow their three-parts-a-day the app is only downloadable om Google Play (iTun and the 69, 822+ people who petned them don't believe nversn therapy for some reason), there is an abridged versn available on the mistry’s webse.

Stop Callg Your Homosexualy an "Alternative Liftyle": It's "Wicked, " "Evil, " and a "S": The are the only thgs you should ever ll om now on, preferably hhed ton. Even better, feel ee to refer to your homosexualy wh water-based metaphors: It's a "broken cistern" that will never satisfy your thirst. Change For the Right Reasons (the Glory Of God): After all, homosexualy is nothg but "lt, porn, and sexual immoraly, " ss that are applible only to gay people and never to straight on.

IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"

Always Read Scripture, But Only the Parts We Tell You to: Who knew curg homosexualy uld be so much like dog high school homework? Remove Yourself From Anythg Even Remotely Gay: Don't watch porn (aga, 's only a gay thg), don't go on gay webs, and most of all, certaly don't associate wh gay people.

Any of those thgs might make you feel like your homosexualy is a natural part of your inty and n be accepted by those around you. Realize That Beg Homosexual Mak You Feel Alone Fet that we told you to shut yourself away om most of the world, and ignore the ia that maybe gay people feel so alone bee of the discrimatory and hateful attus that they face, helped by people like . Rencile Wh Those Who Tried to Help You Stop Beg Gay: All those people who lled you "faggot" and told you that you were gog to Hell?

But if at the end of this 60-day therapy, you still have homosexual tennci, then you didn't really believe and you didn't really want to change. Here are five thgs you n To Baba Ramv And Do Some YogaYoga n cure anythg om arthris to heart ache and pnch--there is no reason why shouldn't also be able to cure homosexualy.

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

Also read: How to succsfully spot a lbian a room full of women If You Are A Gay Man, Lock Yourself Up In A Room Wh A GirlThis cure is urty, none other than Baba Ramv aga! All you need to do wh someone who's gay is ship him off to Ramv's Haridwar ashram where the yoga gu will lock him a room wh a girl for a uple of days. Acrdg to Indira Sharma, those unfortable wh their homosexualy uld seek psychiatric treatment and some may even be able to change their orientatn!

*ternally sobbg*Acupuncture Your Gay AwayIn 2015, a homeopathy blog (I'll wa for you to stop lghg) claimed that gay people n be 'cured' through alternative therapi cludg acupuncture. Acrdg to the blog, homosexualy occurs when life force flows "om the top back to the an" and a "blockage the first and send chakra".

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY – REAL OR HOAX?

There is so much science this one sentence that the blog is beg nsired for a Nobel read: 4 laws that n actually benef gay men and women India However, the sad part is that every doctor (at least the sensible on) would agree that magic needl n't really do much to stop you beg Off To A Gay CampRemember the movie But, I'm A Cheerleer? “And he said, a voice ee of emotn: ‘False Image’, ” rells Conley Boy Erased, his elegant memoir about the year which his southern Baptist upbrgg llid wh his sexual awakeng as a gay man. The methods are cel and equently vlent, om applyg electric shocks while beg forced to watch gay porn, to md ntrol gam aimed at persuadg LGBT “patients” their sir are rooted dysfunctnal or “disempowerg” relatnships wh their LIA the msage was unequivol: homosexualy meant unhapps, isolatn and ath.

Stori like the were not unmon at LIA, renamed Rtoratn Path 2012, and wily nsired to be the first morn “ex-gay” mistry predited on changg the sexual orientatn of gay men and women. Like other gay teens, Conley went through the motns of havg a girliend as a way to “cure” himself, but he was also a vorac rear who found novels a unterweight to the Bible that helped expand the horizons of his world.

The knowledge of my homosexualy would seem more shockg than the knowledge of my rape; or, worse, would seem as though one act had evably followed the other, as though I’d had g to me. There, she jok about an ia for a TV seri, Preachers’ Wiv Gone Wild, while he surreptly observ their handsome the ironi of nversn therapi such as LIA is the fact that they are n and managed largely by gay men who have been through the programme themselv, renounced their past and now seek to make others do the same.

Conley characteris them by their “ex-gay s” which the rners of their lips “stretched beyond the lims of normalcy” such person was John Smid, former executive director of LIA and a gay man and Christian who would eventually adm that he’d “never met a man who experienced a change om homosexual to heterosexual”. We were learng Step One of Love Actn’s 12-Step programme, a set of prcipl equatg the ss of fily, btialy, paedophilia and homosexualy to addictive behavr such as alholism or gamblg: a kd of Alholics Anonymo for what unsellors referred to as our ‘sexual viance’.

’ I was here by my own choice, spe my growg scepticism, spe my secret wish to n away om the shame I’d felt sce my parents found out I was gay.