Topic: Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He's gay

[itsApril]

[Sigh!]  Better late than never, I guess!

Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He's gay

Sept. 3, 2019, 8:16 AM PDT
By Associated Press

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conversion-therapy-crusader-has-something-say-he-s-gay-n1049146

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A South Carolina man who founded one of the nation's biggest conversion therapy ministries has something to say: he's gay.

The Post and Courier reports Hope for Wholeness founder McKrae Game came out of the closet this summer, nearly two years after he was fired from the faith-based conversion therapy program. He's now trying to come to terms with the harm he inflicted when he was advocating for religious efforts to change a person's sexuality.

“Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” Game told The Post and Courier. “Because it’s false advertising.”

[AnneK]

This point was made in the movie "Boy Erased".  The therapist turned out to be gay and later said it didn't work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Erased

This is about the real therapist, John Smid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smid

In 2011, three years after leaving Love In Action and stepping down from its leadership, Smid announced he was still homosexual and stated he had "never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual."