I know a few people that underwent electro-shock torture at a mormon-run, aversion therapy "clinic" back in the late '70's and early '80's. The mormon cult has since stopped directly physically torturing it's gay and lesbian youth, but they still quietly endorse the electro-shock approach through 3rd party "clinics".
Butch1
· 3 months ago
How terrible. So forced intervention is the only way they can drag an unwilling person into their brain-washing camp? It would be interesting if you could reconnect with this person and see how they are doing.
pacnwjay
· 3 months ago
If you haven't seen the movie "Latter Days," rent it!!! Excellent representation of the LDS/gay divide.
And I guarantee you'll cry your eyes out.
Jackson Howa-Morrow
· 3 months ago
The LDS church & my family forced me to undergo "reparative therapy" with a "counselor," Floyd Godfrey, who was closely affiliated with the LDS church and Evergreen international.
Mr. Godfrey is, in my opinion, a liar and a fraud. He convinced my family that he could change my sexual orientation when he couldn't even change his own. He admitted to me that his wife had caught him cheating on her with men. He also regularly pressure me to let him hug me and hold me, which made me very uncomfortable.
Ultimately, his "treatment" sent me into a deep depression. If I had not convinced my parents to stop making me see him, I would have attempted suicide.
"Reparative therapy" is a harmful lie.
Chino_Blanco
· 3 months ago
Latter Days is a sweet flick. In a previous life (as a BYU student), I imagined myself bringing to the screen a new superhero - one who gained his powers by way of a BYU reparative therapy session gone awry - resulting in something more like a Hulk "swish" than a "smash" but just as powerful ...
In any case, that was a very nice article in the SL Trib.
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And I guarantee you'll cry your eyes out.
Mr. Godfrey is, in my opinion, a liar and a fraud. He convinced my family that he could change my sexual orientation when he couldn't even change his own. He admitted to me that his wife had caught him cheating on her with men. He also regularly pressure me to let him hug me and hold me, which made me very uncomfortable.
Ultimately, his "treatment" sent me into a deep depression. If I had not convinced my parents to stop making me see him, I would have attempted suicide.
"Reparative therapy" is a harmful lie.
In any case, that was a very nice article in the SL Trib.