Tony Perkins: Ex-Gay Therapy is 'Nonjudgmental'

[marmar]

from Right Wing Watch:



Perkins: Ex-Gay Therapy a 'Nonjudgmental' Way for Gays to Find 'Wholeness'
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 11/30/2012 11:00 am


After his group said that discredited and dangerous sexual orientation conversion therapy is “designed to bring homosexuals out of bondage and into healthy behavior,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins maintained that such counseling is simply a “compassionate” and “nonjudgmental” way for gays and lesbians to find the “wholeness that has been eluding them in their current lifestyle.”

While speaking today with con man and ex-gay group leader Arthur Goldberg, who once again compared his embattled group to Weight Watchers, on Washington Watch Weekly, Perkins lauded conversion therapy as a way for gays to pursue “this path of wholeness.” Earlier this year, Perkins argued that gays and lesbians seek to “redefine the norms of behavior” because “there is an emptiness within them.”

Goldberg even claimed that gay rights activists are only pretending to claim that sexual orientation cannot be changed as part of a “pre-planned agenda,” and that people who failed at conversion therapy simply didn’t try hard enough. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-ex-gay-therapy-non-judgmental-find-wholeness

[hrmjustin]

1. I wonder what is in his closet.

[sakabatou]

2. His pants exploded a long time ago

[dballance]

3. Yep, because statements like....

“designed to bring homosexuals out of bondage and into healthy behavior,”

don't imply any judgement at all.

These people really have no sense of irony or reality.

[Ken Burch]

4. uh...bondage?

Gee, Tony, why did THAT word jump to mind?

Didn't know that's how you rolled, buddy.