Friday, June 10, 2011

Anti-Gay Gay Preacher's 'Therapy' Drove Man to Suicide (Littlegreenfootballs.com)

You may recall our story from last year about fundamentalist Christian leader
George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay
Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson -- and then was caught on
vacation with a "rent boy."

It wasn't the first case of an anti-gay preacher busted doing exactly what he
preached against, and it won't be the last, but this one was especially nasty
because Rekers was also the founder of the bizarre and twisted "Feminine Boy
Project," a program that purported to "cure" boys as young as 4 years old of
"effeminate tendencies."

As I wrote in this post:

> It's religiously-motivated child abuse and quack pseudo-science serving the
cause of hatred and bigotry.

Tonight on CNN at 10 pm ET, Anderson Cooper has a special show about the very
young children whom Rekers tried to straighten out with his brutal Pavlovian
therapies during the 1970s -- and the story is absolutely appalling: Therapy
to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says.

Video

> Los Angeles (CNN) -- Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live
for. He put himself through school. He had a successful 8-year career in the
Air ...
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