Conversion therapy is the discredited and harmful practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. The therapist in the case (Kaley Chiles) argues that this law is an unconstitutional restriction on her speech: psychotherapy is, on her view, a kind of speech, and thus the state law violates her First Amendment rights. The state responds that psychotherapy is a medical procedure,
As part of the series, Gay, 51, will speak to former Mormon David Matheson, who has been described as the "Godfather of conversion therapy." Now out as a gay man himself, Matheson will detail the harmful teachings he once practiced. So-called conversion therapy is the medically discredited attempt to forcefully change one's sexuality or gender identity, often through traumatic psychological torture. It is impossible to change a person's sexuality or gender identity.
The group defending so-called conversion therapy before the Supreme Court has been accused if misrepresenting evidence by the very researchers it cites. In South Carolina, the home of a judge who ruled against the Trump administration burned down over the weekend, shortly after she had reportedly received death threats. Meanwhile, anti-trans, anti-woke media figure Bari Weiss has officially become the editor in chief of CBS News.
These warped "preachers" really do think that Trump is akin to the second coming. What the documentary reveals is staggering. These amoral white men who claim to follow Christ, instead mirror Satan, or Trump. They sneer at the Ten Commandments, they discard compassion for cruelty, and they use their pulpits not to preach love or salvation, but to consolidate power, wealth, and dominion.
