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montrealais's LJ, I re-post the following snippet of a story that appeared in Canada.com about an ex-gay therapist abusing his patient:
Yet there are ex-gay programs operating in this country. Some use electroshock or physical torture methods. Others use emotional abuse to scar young people just on their way out of the closet. And -- as this story reminds us -- these programs attract abusive individuals who are eager to prey on the vulnerable in their care.
The operation of these programs ought to be a criminal serious offence, though that's not likely to happen under a prime minister who hired a former head of Focus on the Family -- one of the country's leading anti-gay organizations -- to be part of his inner circle in the PMO.
montrealais's LJ, I re-post the following snippet of a story that appeared in Canada.com about an ex-gay therapist abusing his patient:"WINNIPEG - A former Manitoba Bible college counsellor was convicted Thursday of repeatedly molesting a young student during a role-playing game in which he promised to make the sexually confused man "go straight."I think it's important to draw stories like this to public attention. In Canada especially, LGB folk tend to be quite complacent about our situation. Gaybashing doesn't often make the news, and neither do ex-gay programs, nor queer teen suicide, and so we've lulled ourselves into believing these things aren't happening.
The 60-year-old accused pleaded not guilty to sexual assault at the start of his Queen's Bench trial earlier this week.
The alleged victim testified Monday about months of "touch therapy," which included sexual encounters with the accused at various locales, including at a retreat in Gimli, Man., Winnipeg's Fun Mountain waterslides and even in the floodway surrounding the city."
Yet there are ex-gay programs operating in this country. Some use electroshock or physical torture methods. Others use emotional abuse to scar young people just on their way out of the closet. And -- as this story reminds us -- these programs attract abusive individuals who are eager to prey on the vulnerable in their care.
The operation of these programs ought to be a criminal serious offence, though that's not likely to happen under a prime minister who hired a former head of Focus on the Family -- one of the country's leading anti-gay organizations -- to be part of his inner circle in the PMO.