Is It Possible to Pray the Gay Away? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• 'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS
• TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• TRANS THE GAY AWAY
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS

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. But Hont About Your S (But Not TOO Hont): Adm that you have homosexual tennci, but don’t say anythg else about .

TIME MAGAZE PROMOT ‘TRANS-THE-GAY-AWAY’ CHILD

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.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

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.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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TRANS THE GAY AWAY

If you tly believe God and want to change your sful ways, God will remove all homosexual urg om your md. 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. ManobaA novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available store owner says addn of novelty product was an 'hont mistake''Gay Away' gimmick ndy at Gimli store offends parentsNovelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available there.

A novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv  Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available of "Gay Away: The origal gay pill" were on display alongsi other gag products si the store.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Slogans on the pk package claim that "cur gayns" and "stops the cravg for misbehavg. " Insi is a blister pack ntag 10 piec of while Gay Away claims to be jt a gimmick, Gimli rints like Mona Johnson were not amed.

"A parent, who did not want to be named, said his 12-year-old dghter brought a pack of Gay Away home bee she had qutns about what was about. Johnson and others said the product is offensive and uld send hurtful msag to the gay and lbian store's owner told CBC News on Wednday afternoon that she has removed the gag em om shelv after receivg lls om ncerned parents. Rachelle Mistelbacher apologized and sisted that her bs is still a fay store, and the addn of Gay Away was an oversight and an "hont mistake.

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

"Calls to Lghrat, the Toronto-based pany that produced Gay Away and other gag ems, were not returned on an email sent to CBC News on Friday, Lghrat said Gay Away's creator believ 's a "pro gay product that pok fun at not gays but rather those people opposed to gay liftyl.

"The spiratn for this product was born out of the ignorance of amongst others relig anizatns and others society who suggted that homosexualy was a 'curable disease or ndn' and a liftyle choice, " the pany's email stat pany add that Gay Away has been sold hundreds of North Amerin retailers sce 2008. “Time Magaze and all of the other magaz are endorsg the trans-the-gay away procs, ” rpond Natasha Chart, an activist who argu that transgenr iology stroys the cultural and legal foundatns of women’s rights and stat.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

Instead of acceptg a feme boy who may well grow up to be gay or lbian, the parents are g the transgenr claim to “trans-the-gay-away” by nvertg their embarrassg son to a non-embarrassg dghter, she said, addg:.

Shappley’s mother admted that she beat the boy at a young age bee she feared he would grow up to be gay.

I remember even thkg before Kai was three, I thk this kid might be gay, and I thought that that uld not happen, that would not happen.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

Homophobic child abe.

“I was very ncerned, bee at the time I was leadg a small mistry at my church and teachg Bible study, and here I have this kid who people my fay were flat askg me if this kid was gay. Not a gay boy, not a sissy! “Tradnally, if somebody didn’t like their gay kid, they would jt tell them to leave home, they wouldn’t strate them, ” said Aharon.

It might be hard to accept that your child is gay and do viate om the norm. A surprisg number of proment gays enurage this “trans-the-gay-away” procs, Aharon said:. I fd really que md-bogglg that proment, famo gay men support the ia of Kai [Shappley] and Jazz Jenngs [gog through this procs] bee they don’t see themselv that whole story.

WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

“Now 18 years old, Jaah, who wr mic, has e forward revealg that she was a lbian that had stggled wh ternalized homophobia as a kid. It’s a much broar movement to dismantle the sex bary, to see blogy as a functn of power and not science, and thereby to nstct the fay and even a fixed tegory such as homosexualy … The radilism of this asslt on nature, science and bodily tegry is not hidn … a view of the body as beyond sex or genr, to be created and recreated at will and fely, and an abandonment of any stable notn of sex at all.

It clus alienated young men fantasizg about beg submissive women, lbians tryg to bee men, teenage girls tryg to flee a sexual environment twisted by pornography, and gay teenagers tryg to pe their mory stat by adoptg an attempted mastream male inty. 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. 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.