New Faith-based Film Aims To Help Gays ‘migrate’ To Heterosexuality

A CHRISTIAN ‘pro-family’ outfit in Quebec – Campagne Québec-Vie – has teamed up with veteran ‘gay cure’ crank Michel Lizotte, above, to produce a documentary aimed at countering opponents of conversion therapy.

In truth, Censored achieves the opposite. It actually strengthens the case against faith-based “cures” by giving voice to “experts” who have been exposed years ago as raving lunatics – in particular the late Joseph Nicolosi, a former President of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).

Nicolosi’s work is now being carried on by his son, Joseph Nicolosi Jr, above, who is every bit as deranged as his father.

Hear junior talk about “reintegrative therapies” and the efforts of “hard-left gays” to oppose such interventions here.

NARTH fell apart back in 2014 after being frequently exposed as being nothing more than a platform for gay-hating Christians, including one “scientific advisor” – a Baptist minister and psychologist called George Alan Rekers, right.

He was forced resign after paying a male prostitute to “lift his luggage.” A list of Rekers’ publications include Growing Up Straight and Shaping Your Child’s Sexuality.

Lizotte had close ties to NARTH. So close, in fact, that in 2011, NARTH gave him an award for his work in the field of conversion therapy in Canada.

This prompted psychology professor Warren Throckmorton to comment:

Lizotte makes claims about homosexuality, supports the claims with old, poorly designed and/or irrelevant citations, fails to cite conflicting and/or newer research and then says that ‘the latest research’ supports his position. No wonder NARTH gave him an award.

After it collapsed, NARTH reinvented itself as the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, headed by Nicolosi Jr.

Wayne Besen, of Truth Wins Out, reacted to this rebranding by saying:

NARTH can put lipstick on this new pig, but it’s the same old swine peddling junk science to desperate and vulnerable people. This cynical rebranding effort is an attempt to mask NARTH’s past failures, history of consumer fraud, and shredded reputation. We urge mental health professionals not to be fooled by NARTH’s new facelift.

Despite Censored being a rehash of old and discredited “scientific research”, far-right, gay-hating LifeSiteNews tries to convince its readers that:

It systematically dispels many false myths surrounding the therapies.

That any news outlet should seek to portray people involved with NARTH/Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity as anything other than a bunch of dangerous, mainly Christian charlatans beggars belief. But LSN does, falsely claiming that the work they do is “empirically-validated by many decades of research.”

Time and again the “research” used by organisations such as the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity and Northern Ireland-based Core Issues Trust, headed by “ex-gay” Mike Davidson, above, has been been shown to be worthless, and that Lizotte’s claim in Censored that gays can successfully “migrate” to heterosexuality is balderdash.

LSN points out that instead of being rewarded for his “pioneering work in Canada promoting Same Sex Attraction (SSA) therapies”, Lizotte suffered years of “persecution”:

In a recent interview, the author asserted that he had lost his employment about 20 times in the last 20 years, as a result of his efforts to protect the right of people wanting to overcome their SSA (Same Sex Attraction) to find a competent therapist and sound scientific facts regarding the therapies. 

Drawn from 18 years of interviews with therapists, researchers, as well as “ex-gays” (people who say they have successfully overcome their same-sex attractions), Lizotte’s latest work weaves together the many aspects of the debate surrounding therapies for same-sex attraction.  

Much maligned by some, a variety of therapies, empirically-validated by many decades of research, is revealed to be quite effective when used by competent therapists. Lizotte argues that they would be much more widespread were it not for the blockade of homosexual-friendly mental health institutions that prevent researchers from finding funding or mainstream publishers. 

The documentary also explores in some detail the methods used by key actors in various psychological organizations such as the American Psychological Association, along with pro-homosexuality allies in government and the media, to conduct smear campaigns against therapies, therapists and researchers, demonizing anyone who would dare say publicly that same-sex attracted people can and do change, with the help of professionally-conducted therapy.  

Finally, the documentary tracks the legislative efforts by many Western governments, ranging from city-level to national, to ban “conversion” therapies outright. In Canada, the Trudeau Liberal government has introduced bill C-6 to criminalize the advertisement of therapies to SSA individuals, profiting from the provision of these therapies, or having minors undergo them.

Meanwhile, more than 21,000 have signed an AllOut a petition calling for a ban of conversion therapies across Europe.