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Related: About this forumMarcus Bachmann's Clinics Again Caught Praying the Gay Away
http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Marcus_Bachmann_Clinics_Caught_Again/Marcus Bachmann and his Christian counseling clinics are once again being outed for preforming so-called reparative therapy.
Documentary filmmaker Kristina Lapinski took a hidden pen camera with her into a counseling session at Bachmann & Associates on Thursday and wrote about the encounter on a blog affiliated with her film, Gay U.S.A. the Movie. Lapinski recounts a session with counselor Sheila Marker, who asked Lapinski to read from the Bible, then told her to follow Gods road and that, the Bible says one man one woman."
"She talked a lot about submitting to God, giving my life path over to him and letting him direct the way," Lapinski wrote. "She told me if I wanted to be happy I could 'give my problems to the Lord and he could take them away.'"
They ended the hourlong session with a prayer, and Marker "asked the Lord to take away my 'desire' and allow me to pursue a relationship with my fiancé." Lapinski had told the counselor she feelings for women but was debating whether to marry a man anyway. When she admitted to the counselor that she'd never had sex with the fictional man she was to wed and that she wasn't attracted to him, the counselor said, "How can you know how it will be until you try?
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Marcus Bachmann's Clinics Again Caught Praying the Gay Away (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2012
OP
Even the guy who wrote the initial study is now saying this practice is bullshit.
Initech
Apr 2012
#6
Marcus' clinic is about fighting something that shouldn't be fought. How sad for him and
applegrove
Apr 2012
#7
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)1. I wish someone would make a federal case out of this...
The Bachmann fraudsters need to go to jail. Or at least get their federal welfare checks cut off.
SamG
(535 posts)3. Thanks for posting this. A more detailed account can be ..
TlalocW
(15,374 posts)4. I know it probably would have blown her cover
But when asked, "How can you know how it will be until you try," she should have responded back to the counselor with the same question but in same-sex terms.
TlalocW
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)5. I wonder how much taxpayer's money
is spent on useless, experimental therapies like these.
Initech
(100,041 posts)6. Even the guy who wrote the initial study is now saying this practice is bullshit.
applegrove
(118,501 posts)7. Marcus' clinic is about fighting something that shouldn't be fought. How sad for him and
everyone in his life that Marcus has to wake up and fight every day to not be who he is. I've seen it with a friend before. It takes a huge toll on somebody's life. And those around them.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)8. Can someone somewhere please out this man...
I'm not usually in favor of it, but he's harming others' lives and that's where I draw the line.