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The hard way growing up in a northern minnesota mining town. >> all the messages at that time were a big no. >> when he was young, he went to conversion therapy. >> that was a real indoctrination of some of fundamental targeting that is not right. >> music and the stage saved his life. >> is the one place i could be totally authentic. in 1991 he established acquire an austin, today the group performs a project composed by craig called considering matthew shepard. a concert honoring the life and ...

You know, i knowjoe biden, president biden, in his election language pushed for, or promised to ban conversion therapy, and i really liked the language that he used. it was not very selective, like we have right now, which is licensed professional therapists against minors. its much more broad, like they have in the european countries. but whatever — even if with these needed laws for therapists against minors, anything we can do to discredit organisations like this...

But they definitely were not. i had one of these beams like they have at stores. i had a beam that when i crossed my driveway to warn me when my mum was coming over. so, yeah, and i got... ..you know, saved, and then got sucked into conversion therapy, found a local counsellor, went to a conference he was doing and started going to the weekly groups. my mum paid for the counselling. it seemed like thats what i needed because everybody — the world, church, family, friends — were telling me, "...

Im sure there is, but our laws restrict freedom and probably religious freedom in a number of ways. the reality, though, is conversion therapy is harmful. it is much like cigarettes and drugs. we restrict, we tax, we heavily regulate. there is no regulation, there is no inspection of ex—gay ministries and conversion therapy at all. it is basically snake oil that is being passed. in many ways, like our organisation was, very professional—seeming, and ours was very professional. but it was a f...

I would much rather us go about it how the europeans are going about it because licensed professional therapists, by and large in the states, are not doing professional therapy with minors on conversion therapy. by and large, its people like i was that did not have psychological training or degrees. right, so there you are. i entirely take your point. you were not using the extreme physical measures, but you were using the messaging tactics. and you were definitely using religious messaging to p...

Ive heard numbers like that, 600,000—700,000 i never saw that. it was always a very hidden organisation, very niche, across the country, very small, very poor. there are some therapists that are making money off of it, but by and large, it is a practice that is actually going out of style very much so as our culture is becoming much more accepting, much more moderate. you raise the money factor, and again, i have to ask you a blunt question. for two decades, you made a living out of this gay c...

It how the europeans are going about it because licensed professional therapists, by and large in the states, are not doing professional therapy with minors on conversion therapy. by and large, its people like i was that did not have psychological training or degrees. right, so there you are. i entirely take your point. you were not using the extreme physical measures, but the messaging tactics. you were definitely using religious messaging to dissuade people what they were doing, if they were p...

The reality, though, is conversion therapy is harmful. it is much like cigarettes and drugs. we restrict, we tax, we heavily regulate. there is no regulation, there is no inspection of ex—gay ministries and conversion therapy at all. it is basically snake oil that is being passed. in many ways, like our organisation was, very professional seeming, and ours was very professional. but it was a false ruse. 0ur slogan that i came up was "freedom of homosexuality "through jesus christ. " all i mean...

It, but by and large, it is a practice that is actually going out of style very much so as our culture is becoming much more accepting, much more moderate. you raise the money factor, and again, i have to ask you a blunt question. for two decades, you made a living out of this gay conversion therapy, didnt you? not much of, not much of. i sold my landscaping company to go full—time, and i couldve made more money working at mcdonalds, seriously. i heard of people making a successful living in c...

President biden, in his election language pushed for, or promised to ban conversion therapy, and i really liked the language that he used. it was not very selective like we have right now, which is licensed professional therapist against minors. therapists against minors. its much more broad like they have in the european countries. but whatever — even if with these needed laws for therapists against minors, anything we can do to discredit organisations like this... ive heard numbers like that...