{"id":14322,"date":"2026-04-15T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:16:51","slug":"the-soul-crushers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14322","title":{"rendered":"The Soul Crushers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Fred Clark’s Slacktivist blog<\/a>…which you should read regularly.<\/p>\n

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Conversion therapy is soul-crushing \u2014 and it doesn’t work<\/h2>\n

None of the hundreds of people I met in conversion therapy received the miracle we\u2019d been promised. In fact, it has been discredited by every major medical and mental health organization as ineffective and harmful. -by Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, April 2, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You should go read Timothy’s post. He is a survivor of conversion therapy. He is a witness.<\/p>\n

I would only respectfully submit that the right wing members of the Robert’s Court that struck down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban understand what it does completely. If anyone misunderstands it that would be the ersatz liberal members of the court, who seem to think healthcare, at least when it comes to LGBT Americans, should maintain a neutral stance between medicine and poison, and really is poison so bad as long as the patient can also choose medicine if they want? The conservatives however knew exactly what they were doing and the harm conversion therapy does. We have to be carefully taught to hate ourselves, to the point that self hate leads to dangerously harmful behaviors, even to the point some non-trivial percentage of us kill ourselves. Otherwise where will they get the broken pieces of our hearts to build their stepping stones to heaven with? As is said in my trade, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.<\/p>\n

But this is good that these stories are once again being told. It was the authentic voices of people, teens and adults, who had been through this, voluntarily and by force, that these laws were passed in the first place and the first wave of these outfits started closing their doors. Now we will have to fight these battles all over again but that’s the story of the ages. Love completes us, but hate is never satisfied.<\/p>\n

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Via Fred Clark’s Slacktivist blog…which you should read regularly. Conversion therapy is soul-crushing \u2014 and it doesn’t work None of the hundreds of people I met in conversion therapy received the miracle we\u2019d been promised. In fact, it has been discredited by every major medical and mental health organization as ineffective and harmful. -by Timothy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[314,134,12],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ex-gay-therapy","tag-gay","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14325,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/14325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}