The ex-gay think tank NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) reacted Monday to news of a California bill that would prohibit antigay therapist professionals from mistreating underage youths, and that would require all adult ex-gay clients of such professionals to sign an informed consent form — a form that NARTH and ex-gay “ministry” network Exodus International have opposed for decades.
NARTH said the California bill would “threaten the right of individuals with unwanted homosexual attractions to receive therapy.” NARTH has long made this contention that patients have a “right” to demand that medical professionals mistreat them. This is akin to a hypochondriac patient demanding the anticancer quack therapy laetrile (cyanide), or perhaps more appropriately, a Christian doctor insisting that she has a “right” to prescribe asbestos and nicotine to treat “unwanted Judaism and Islam” in her patients.
NARTH warns, “While this is a direct assault on everyone’s freedom it is also a not so subtle attack on religious liberty.”
The California legislation IS about medical malpractice, and it IS about liberties — specifically, the right to be informed and the freedom of religious and sexual minorities not to be defamed and abused by NARTH’s antigay and largely fundamentalist member therapists. As Truth Wins Out and others have documented, NARTH leaders have supported bullying, justified slavery, and abused legitimate researchers’ work.
NARTH seeks freedom from professional accountability, not religious freedom.
More proof that they don’t care about how much they harm others in the name of “religious freedom”.
Please read the SB1172 bill introduce http://sacramento.networkofcare.org for a clear understanding. Please stop twisting truth.
You guys are so full of it! You just want everyone to be gay even when they don’t want to be. You are hateful and abusive. You need to stop. You will not stop until the entire world is gay. That is hateful and abusive. The government needs to stop you from spreading this hateful agenda of yours.
So, Dan, are you saying that you personally can be turned gay?
Wait, we can turn people gay?! Why did I not know this? Is the Secret Gay Cabal not telling me things again?
No Dan. We’re trying to save people from the lives of loneliness and misery you want to force on them. People have literally died trying to change their sexuality. We want them to know they’re fine the way they are.
Exposing the Christian scheme of ex-gay therapy (try to shame people into thinking there’s something wrong with with them because they’re gay, and then offer something that’s known to be fatal) isn’t hateful or abusive, Dan. If anything, these people are doing humanity a great service, by sparing them the mental anguish you would inflict upon them for being who they are. I do understand why you attempt to project your hate and abuse on them, considering you may need to find a new job when the ex-gay scam finally implodes. Do stop pretending you care about people when all you care about is easy profit.