Ted Haggard and the S.S.A.D. 'Ex-Gay' Fraud

[SeveneightyWhoa]

Ted Haggard and the S.S.A.D. 'Ex-Gay' Fraud

February 20 2007
Counterbias.com
MEL SEESHOLTZ


You have to love the timing. On the same day Ted Haggard – the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and vociferous anti-gay crusader whose lengthy relationship with a male prostitute brought about his downfall – was proclaiming he’s now “completely heterosexual” after three weeks of “ex-gay” counseling, Boston Legal aired an episode in which “Alan Shore, Denny Crane and Bethany Horowitz are hired to represent a judge who is suing a company for not delivering on its promise to cure” his S.S.A.D. A bogus “disorder” and the fraud of “ex-gay therapies” exposed, in fact and fiction.

When the Haggard scandal broke, Ted’s friend, confidant, and fellow anti-gay crusader James Dobson, whose Focus on the Family organization has its own faith-based “ex-gay” program called Love Won Out, almost immediately after agreeing to “counsel” Haggard. A day later he backed out of the “restoration.” Dobson’s stated reason: “I don’t have the time.” In explaining his decision on Larry King Live, Dobson said Haggard’s conversion “could take four or five years."

Right, Dr. Dobson. It takes years to brainwash people into repressing an essential part of their being, into denying their innate sexuality, and into becoming a drone for their oppressors.

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[sakabatou]

1. These brain washing camps are sick

[formerrepuke]

2. The movie "But I'm a Cheerleader" is a comedy about one of those camps...

..Rupaul plays one of the counselors. The reality of such places isn't all that funny, though.

[karlrschneider]

3. Apparently Teddy had also been diddling some of his congregation too

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/02/20/investigation-finds-pastor-ted-hit-on-men-in-congregation/

[SeveneightyWhoa]

4. Yikes! n/t