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Showing posts with label Gay Conversion Therapy. Show all posts
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Gawker: Gay Barbarians Glitterbomb Marcus Bachmann’s Clinic



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Today a horde of gay barbarians descended upon Michele and Marcus Bachmann's "pray away the gay" clinic and demanded that Marcus come out and discipline them for their "deviant" behavior.

Marcus Bachmann, who conducts "reparative therapy" at the clinic intended to convert homosexuals, has said that gays are "barbarians who need to be disciplined." The horde requested to speak directly with Bachmann and experience some "discipline" for themselves.

When Marcus was no where to be found, the barbarians glittered the empty waiting room and reception area while chanting, "You can't pray away the gay -- baby, I was born this way!"

The action was organized by the same young man who threw glitter on Newt Gingrich, starting a national trend in political protest of anti-LGBT sentiments from political candidates and campaigns.

"Michele and Marcus Bachmann think gay people are barbarians?" asked LGBT activist Nick Espinosa. "I think its clear to everyone who the real barbarians are, based on the Bachmanns' archaic views on LGBT equality."

A Controversial Past

Michele Bachmann has a long history of controversial anti-gay politics, and has compared the gay lifestyle to "bondage and slavery." In 2005, she was infamously caught lurking in the bushes during an LGBT rally. That same year, she attempted to file a police report when two constituents -- a lesbian and an ex-nun -- tried to talk with her about marriage equality following a townhall event. The police department refused to file a report, citing that she was in no danger.

Her anti-gay views have been a focal point of her career as a politician, but lately she has shied away from reporters' questions about her controversial comments and taxpayer-funded "reparative therapy" clinic. While Michele Bachmann has long railed against federal safety net programs like Medicaid, the Bachmann & Associates clinic has received over $137,000 in Medicaid funds and over $27,000 in other state and federal funds.

Last week an undercover investigation confirmed that the Bachman's clinic is, to this very day, providing discredited "ex-gay" reparative therapy.

For years the scientific and medical communities, including groups like the American Psychology Association, have dismissed "reparative therapy" (also known as "conversion therapy" or "ex-gay therapy") as dangerous and unethical.

"Its time for Michele Bachmann to stop running away and to take responsibility for her destructive clinic. She, of all people ,should not be abusing medicare and wasting taxpayer dollars to practice quack science that endangers her patients," Espinosa said.

See the Gawker article at http://gawker.com/5823490/horde-of-gay-barbarians-glitterbomb-marcus-bachmanns-clinic

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Republicans say it's OK to be gay

Amanda Terkel aterkel@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
First Posted: 08-25-10 10:42 PM | Updated: 08-25-10 11:11 PM

In an interview with the Huffington Post on Wednesday night, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman -- who announced earlier Wednesday that he is gay and intends to join the fight for marriage equality in California -- said he wishes he had come out while he was the face of a historically anti-gay Republican Party platform.

Mehlman acknowledged regret that he remained closeted when he led the RNC between 2005 and 2007. This was a time when, as The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder noted, it was "stepping up its anti-gay activities."

"The reason I wish that I had been in a different place then, as I am now, is I know the personal benefit of being comfortable with, and at peace with, an important part of your life," Mehlman said.

Until you get there, it's much harder. I'm very glad to be there.

The former chairman argued that he tried hard to "expand the party and build the party," but said he wished he had done more for gay rights. Still, he said: 

[You] can't look back, you've got to look forward.
The GOP movement away form Opposing gay marriage started when right wing attorney Ted Olson opposed California's Proposition 8. Dick Cheney, who has a lesbian daughter,  and Ann Coulter also jumped on the 'it's OK to be Gay' band wagon. Now a former RNC chairman comes out. 


We suspect the evangelicals aren't happy about this policy cahnge. It will ruin the evangelical gay conversion therapy business. 

source: Huffington Post
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Newsy.com: APA Rules Out Gay Conversion Therapy

August 7, 2009 3:05

Although the APA's report leaves room for a patient's religious considerations, the shift in philosophy is once again stirring this issue up in the media.

The APA stopped considering homosexuality a psychological condition  1973. Most religious institutions do not have trained psychiatrists or psychologists tp provide therapy to gay or lesbian church members. The term "therapist' is not regulated in most states and anyone can put up a shingle describing themselves as a therapist.

Our closest relatives in the animal kingdom the bonobo, engage in homosexual behaviour. This suggests homosexuality has been part of the 'human condition' for a long time.

It's best not to fool with Mother Nature particularly by religious zealots or other psycho-shaman.



source: Newsy.com

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