By Charlie Butts Dec 19, 2023 at American Family News.
… Meanwhile, Dr. Jennifer Morse of The Ruth Institute says opponents of so-called “conversion therapy” are using false information to prevent people from exercising counseling freedom and finding help as they battle unwanted sexual attraction.
Partly based on the notion that many who undergo the counseling end up committing suicide, 22 American states and multiple countries around the world have banned such therapy. But sociologist and Catholic Priest Paul Sullins has found that basis to be baseless.
“People who are more suicidal in the first place are the ones most likely to choose to go to therapy, which accounts for why they have more suicide attempts over their lifetime,” Dr. Morse relays. “But if you ask what happened to their suicidal attempts and suicidal thoughts and feelings after therapy, you find that that actually declines after therapy, not increases.”
Proponents of the bans also claim therapists are torturing their patients.
“There has never been a case like that in the United States where a licensed therapist has been brought up on charges because they did something like that,” Dr. Morse asserts. “These bans that are so-called conversion therapy are really about banning talk therapy and counseling that helps people deal with unwanted same-sex attractions.”
She concludes that such laws are doing the opposite of what they are supposedly meant to do.