Prominent Conversion Therapist Comes Out as Gay

Saturday, January 26, 2019

One of the most prominent "gay conversion therapists" in the US has divorced his wife and wants to start dating men. David Matheson, from Utah, was the creator of widely maligned and discredited courses that claimed to be capable of changing the sexuality of those who studied them.

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"Now he has acknowledged that his work was hurtful to people, and blamed his previous views on the "shame-based, homophobic-based system" of the Mormon church in which he was raised."

I think I have compassion for him, growing up in a cult like that could cause serious psychological damage.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2019-01-26 08:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"One of the most prominent "gay conversion therapists" in the US has divorced his wife and wants to start dating men".

'Nobody could have anticipated'...

Bwaaa hahahahahaha!

#2 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2019-01-26 08:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

What the world needs is hate conversion therapy.

Also, this is proof that karma is a bitch.

#3 | Posted by bored at 2019-01-26 12:01 PM | Reply

The world would be a lot better off if everyone would just let consenting adults love whoever they wish and dress however they wish and quit worrying about what is "normal."

#4 | Posted by cbob at 2019-01-26 01:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Operating a conversion therapy clinic is a great way to meet Marcus Bachman. And other gays...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2019-01-26 01:20 PM | Reply

Of course he is gay. Pretty much anyone who believes that being gay is a choice is gay. Because in almost all cases THAT person made a choice.

"Gay" is a spectrum. You can be fully straight (no sexual interest in the same sex). You can be fully gay (no sexual interest in the other sex). Or you can be in the middle. Anyone who is fully straight or fully gay knows that being gay is not a choice, because THEY never made a choice. It is the people who are in the middle (normally called bisexual) who BELIEVE that being gay is a choice, because they COULD MAKE (and have made) the CHOICE to be their chosen orientation.

Yes... I am saying that pretty much all Republicans are at least partially gay (since Republicans believe that being gay is a choice).

That is why religions also find a home with Republicans. Because religions usually play on a person's self-hate. And, for the conservative (who are usually bisexual), it makes them feel superior and accomplished because they were able to make the "right" choice, even though it was hard. Though they tend to be pretty insecure due to them hating and being disgusted by an integral part of themselves.

#6 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2019-01-26 01:21 PM | Reply

The world would be a lot better off if everyone would just let consenting adults love whoever they wish and dress however they wish and quit worrying about what is "normal."
#4 | POSTED BY CBOB

Amen, brother.

#7 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2019-01-26 01:39 PM | Reply

I fully believe sexuality is WIRED in to all of us, it's not a choice. The spectrum comment above was a good one.

#8 | Posted by aborted_monson at 2019-01-26 03:16 PM | Reply

"Pretty much anyone who believes that being gay is a choice is gay."

That's going to make a few people here uncomfortable...

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2019-01-26 06:35 PM | Reply

amazing what ghost stories do to clowns... really is.

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2019-01-26 07:30 PM | Reply

Joe Rogan: Ted Haggard got cured of the Gay

#11 | Posted by Rightocenter at 2019-01-26 07:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I knew it! The ghey is contagious. 😬

#12 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2019-01-26 07:53 PM | Reply

Everyone get their "shocked" faces ready.

#13 | Posted by TheTom at 2019-01-26 10:47 PM | Reply

I knew it! The ghey is contagious. 😬

#12 | POSTED BY Comrade Fester's Boils

Better watch out. I hear alt-right nimrods are 10 times more likely to catch it, thats what Infowars was claiming. That or if you hang out with gay frogs.

#14 | Posted by aborted_monson at 2019-01-27 01:29 AM | Reply

" I hear alt-right nimrods are 10 times more likely to catch it"

You "hear"? Cuz you "know a guy"?
ABORTED LUBE RIGHT

#15 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2019-01-27 10:30 AM | Reply

People are saying...

#16 | Posted by bored at 2019-01-27 10:35 AM | Reply

"You "hear"? Cuz you "know a guy"?" - #15 | Posted by phesterOBoil at 2019-01-27 10:30 AM

Fox News: "Some people say"

#17 | Posted by Hans at 2019-01-27 11:41 AM | Reply