A contingent of American quacks, led by Dr Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D, have descended on London for a conference called Sex and the City: Redeeming Sex Today – A Judaeo-Christian Conference for All. Andy Harley, at UK Gay News, has been reporting on the conference and the coalition of gay and straight people challenging the message that therapy and prayer can cure GLBT people.
Nathan Windsor shares his personal experience:
First Person: Trying to Cure Gays Is Christian?
Here I am, sitting on a train heading south to London for a protest. So why is a gay fifty-something travelling a couple of hundred miles to do the demo thing? Something more appropriate for the youngsters, perhaps?
The protest in question is over this anti-gay, so-called “Christian”, conference which is all about “curing” gays by therapy.
I just happen to know a bit about “curing gays”. They tried it on me almost 40 years ago, and it didn’t work.
The therapy was more National Health Service than religion-inspired. I was carted off to the funny farm and for a couple of months was incarcerated, with no chance of telling anyone “I’m out of here”.
As my boyfriend would say, the therapy of all those years ago didn’t work. Since then both science and the United Nations have decreed that homosexuality is not a disease. So trying to cure someone of being gay is a total waste of money (unless, of course you are one of those ‘quack’ therapist who fleece gays and/or their parents for therapy courses)
Nicolosi told BBC News: “We have a great deal of evidence showing that these individuals are not harmed and that the therapy does work.” Right. Evidence like this: Masters and Johnson lied.
UK Gay News has more about the “Christian” kooks descending on Britain and the protest to counter their bad science:
- Coalition of Gay and Straight People to Protest Outside Anti-Gay Religious Conference
- On the Eve of a Protest
- Sex and the City – Anglican Mainstream’s Homosexual Obsession
- Psychologist Defends Gay ‘Treatment
- Doctors Criticise ‘Gay Treatment
- Gay and Lesbian Humanists Condemn Religious Anti-Gay ‘Brainwashing’ Campaign
- American Therapists Who Claim to Cure Gays Headed for London
Tip: UK Gay News
