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NPR’s Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric

Started by Shana A, August 04, 2011, 09:24:05 AM

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August 04, 2011, 09:24:05 AM
NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric

Reflections On | Rev. Irene Monroe | August 4, 2011 6:33 am

http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/npr%E2%80%99s-foxification-of-ex-gay-rhetoric/article13786.html

If it were Fox News I wouldn't have flinched. But it was National Public Radio.

To my surprise, I didn't know — especially in 2011 — my sexual orientation was still up for debate. But on Aug. 1 on the "Morning Edition" of National Public Radio (NPR), it was. And the topic on the show that morning was "Can Therapy Help Change Sexual Orientation?"

"Today in Your Health, a controversy that is both political and personal. Conversion therapy is psychotherapy which aims to help gay men and women become straight. It's hardly new, but it's in the news again because the mental health clinic run by the husband of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann reportedly provides such therapy," Renee Montagne, host of "Morning Edition" stated.
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