Tag: gay conversion therapy

Gay conversion therapy could soon be banned across Canada after Justin Trudeau made this one of the priorities for his new government. In a letter to the country’s justice secretary, the Prime Minister stated that banning the controversial practise of attempting to forcibly change people’s gender or sexuality must be a “top priority”. He said

Amazon is taking a stand against conversion therapy and Christian extremists are not happy about it. As of late last week, the online retailer has yanked all titles by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi (a.k.a. the “father of conversion therapy”) after determining his books violated the its guidelines. The move came after a Change.org petition gathered over 80,000 signatures calling on the site to cease sales of Nicolosi’s books, which promoted bogus gay conversion therapy practices and which have been described by some...

“I’ve never seen anyone change from gay to straight ever.” This is one of the opening lines in a new ad spoken by Yvette Cantu Schneider, a previous policy analyst for the Family Research Council, Director of Women’s Ministry for the now defunct ex-gay organization Exodus International and speaker in Focus on the Family’s now closed ‘ex-gay’ road show Love Won Out. Schneider slammed ex-gay therapy as a complete fraud in a new ad by Truth Wins Out, an organization that...

DALLAS, TX—While gay conversion therapy has long been thought to be ineffective, there may be a promising new method for converting the gays. Local gay man Landon Ellison was out protesting a Chick-fil-A in his city Wednesday morning when he got hungry. He looked around to make sure his fellow protestors weren't watching before slipping into the restaurant and ordering a classic chicken sandwich. "It's probably terrible," he sneered at the cashier, who only smiled and said it was her pleasure...