The Furor Over Gay Conversion Therapy

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The Furor Over Gay Conversion Therapy

August 4, 2011
by Edward Schumacher-Matos

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2011/08/04/138963061/the-furor-over-gay-conversion-therapy

Can conversion therapy help some gay men and women turn straight, or is it harmful and converts no one?

This was the subject of a report Monday on Morning Edition that has provoked hundreds of angry responses condemning NPR for legitimizing a mostly discredited therapy. The concern was that it wrongly made homosexuality seem like a disease or lifestyle choice, striking at the very self-identity of most gay men and women.