Homosexuality Is Not Be Cured By Casey Sanchez

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rationale was for him to associate attraction to men with nausea making homosexuality so repulsive that he would become straight. Within three days of admission Clegg-Hill was dead (Tatchell).
Even though these practices have hurt, or even killed some of their “patients,” there are still some survivors, and journalists that have proven that conversion therapy does not work.
In her article “Homosexuality Cannot Be Cured,” Casey Sanchez argues that reparative camps are damning the LGBT community. She profiles a former ex- gay minister John Smid. Smid was the founder of Love in Action (LIA). The majority of the clients of this camp were young men who came from religious families. These boys were being forced into these camps because their parents wanted them to learn that being gay was a sin and that it could cast a person out from their family, church, and home. Smid was struggling with his sexuality as well. Founding LIA gave Smid the platform he needed to treat young men his away. LIA is standing strong today, but Smid has left because he has found that there is no key evidence that anyone can turn from homosexual to heterosexual ( Sanchez).
Sanchez found out that these camps are treating their clients like children. They must be back at a certain time, they cannot talk to anyone in town, and they are to travel a certain route back to the camp in order not to trigger any homosexual feelings. They are not being treated like individuals, but more like property and money. They are not being treated like human beings, but rather like a disease (Sanchez).
Dr. Robert Spitzer, a well-known retired Columbia University professor gave an official apology to the LGBT community on NPR’s show Talk of The Nation with Neal Conan. Spitze...

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...Wrong.” Alcorn had committed suicide December 28th 2014, and posted in her suicide note on Tumblr.
Conversion Therapy is a practice which has been proven not to be harmful but also, has been proven not to work. There is a gene that causes homosexuality, and therefore proves that homosexuality is genetic, and not a choice. Many individuals have gone through conversion therapy and sadly some of them have not survived it. Leelah Alcorn did not survive the therapy process that her parents put her through because she was emotionally damaged by all the negative comments about her being transgender. There is a petition to sign Leelah’s Law, which would ban the practice of conversion therapy. The petition has reached its goal. Now it is up to the Unitited States constitutes to persuade their representatives into passing this law to ban this form of therapy from this nation.

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