we actually did it and the state finally banned this horrific practice for good. i seriously cant thank you enough for getting behind this because it proves that speaking up actually works. stay loud and keep watching out for everyone who still needs us.
March 23, 2017
Final supporters
The phrases “conversion therapy” and “reparative therapy” refer to discredited psychotherapy methods that aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Spiritual efforts to accomplish the same goal are sometimes called “ex-gay ministry.”
Conversion therapy has been condemned by a range of groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, which said it was based on the view that homosexuality is a disorder, an idea “that has been rejected by all the major mental health professions.”
Conversion therapy practitioners “often frame the inability to change one’s sexual orientation as a personal and moral failure,” adding to its harmful effects, the A.P.A. said.
In the past, efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation sometimes involved extreme measures like institutionalization, castration and electroshock therapy, according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Today, critics contend that conversion therapy still sometimes includes physical abuse. For example, a New Jersey organization convicted of fraud last year was accused of sexually abusing its clients and forcing them to participate in violent role-play exercises.
Most practitioners, however, primarily use quasi-psychoanalytic methods like one-on-one or group therapy sessions. Rea Carey, the executive director of the National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force, called it “brutal, inhuman psychological and at times physical abuse.”
Brothers on a Road Less Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop being attracted to other men, said its method includes developing “an internal sense of masculinity” and “discovering our true needs underlying some of our homosexual longings and triggers.”
There are frequently religious overtones to conversion therapy, which is often promoted by groups with ties to conservative Christian organizations like Focus on the Family, which says on its website that “homosexual strugglers” can “leave homosexuality” with the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymous or by “becoming more like Jesus.”
By signing this petition you'll be stating the you, as an American, are against electro-shock conversion therapy.
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Reached 500 supporters
January 15, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
January 14, 2017
241 Comments
This is barbaric and archaic. Freedom of choice must be preserved along with separation of church and state. Government has no business interfering with consenting adults
Being gay/lesbian is not a disease, and is not 'curable', nor does it need to be. Bigotry, fear, and ignorance are your burden, and you are the change that needs to occur.
Hard to believe in this day and age that this petition would be necessary. I'm amazed that these practitioners are not shut down either for practicing without license or for practicing outside the medical sciences, medical malpractice.
Sexuality is not an either, or. It is a spectrum, with people appearing at various places on the scale. It is natural, even God-given. Don't try to alter what God allows.
This is a barbaric treatment that has no effect on changing a persons sexuality. Sexuality is not something one chooses like one chooses a shirt. It is part of their what makes them who they are. You can no more change a persons sexuality than you can choose the any other factors that they are born with.
My husband, Doug, and I pray often for God to strike all homosexuals down. Powell River 88 White Power
BARBARIC, ANTIQUATED, OUT OF DATE AND CRUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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we actually did it and the state finally banned this horrific practice for good. i seriously cant thank you enough for getting behind this because it proves that speaking up actually works. stay loud and keep watching out for everyone who still needs us.
March 23, 2017
Final supporters
The phrases “conversion therapy” and “reparative therapy” refer to discredited psychotherapy methods that aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Spiritual efforts to accomplish the same goal are sometimes called “ex-gay ministry.”
Conversion therapy has been condemned by a range of groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, which said it was based on the view that homosexuality is a disorder, an idea “that has been rejected by all the major mental health professions.”
Conversion therapy practitioners “often frame the inability to change one’s sexual orientation as a personal and moral failure,” adding to its harmful effects, the A.P.A. said.
In the past, efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation sometimes involved extreme measures like institutionalization, castration and electroshock therapy, according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Today, critics contend that conversion therapy still sometimes includes physical abuse. For example, a New Jersey organization convicted of fraud last year was accused of sexually abusing its clients and forcing them to participate in violent role-play exercises.
Most practitioners, however, primarily use quasi-psychoanalytic methods like one-on-one or group therapy sessions. Rea Carey, the executive director of the National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force, called it “brutal, inhuman psychological and at times physical abuse.”
Brothers on a Road Less Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop being attracted to other men, said its method includes developing “an internal sense of masculinity” and “discovering our true needs underlying some of our homosexual longings and triggers.”
There are frequently religious overtones to conversion therapy, which is often promoted by groups with ties to conservative Christian organizations like Focus on the Family, which says on its website that “homosexual strugglers” can “leave homosexuality” with the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymous or by “becoming more like Jesus.”
By signing this petition you'll be stating the you, as an American, are against electro-shock conversion therapy.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 15, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
January 14, 2017
241 Comments
Homosexuality is not an illness and does not need treatment. It concerns me greatly electroshock therapy would even be considered. My mother had it-and it was awful.
This is barbaric and archaic. Freedom of choice must be preserved along with separation of church and state. Government has no business interfering with consenting adults
Being gay/lesbian is not a disease, and is not 'curable', nor does it need to be. Bigotry, fear, and ignorance are your burden, and you are the change that needs to occur.
Hard to believe in this day and age that this petition would be necessary. I'm amazed that these practitioners are not shut down either for practicing without license or for practicing outside the medical sciences, medical malpractice.
Sexuality is not an either, or. It is a spectrum, with people appearing at various places on the scale. It is natural, even God-given. Don't try to alter what God allows.
This is a barbaric treatment that has no effect on changing a persons sexuality. Sexuality is not something one chooses like one chooses a shirt. It is part of their what makes them who they are. You can no more change a persons sexuality than you can choose the any other factors that they are born with.
My husband, Doug, and I pray often for God to strike all homosexuals down. Powell River 88 White Power
BARBARIC, ANTIQUATED, OUT OF DATE AND CRUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Homosexuality is not an illness and does not need treatment. It concerns me greatly electroshock therapy would even be considered. My mother had it-and it was awful.