Conversion Therapist Proudly Admits He’s ‘The Terror that Haunts’ LGBTQ+ People
Plans to dispel “the myths around therapy for sexuality”
Christian Post op-ed contributor Andrew Rodriguez proudly admits that he is a conversion therapist, and declares he “intend[s] to write a few articles dispelling the myths around therapy for sexuality.”
In his introduction to this planned series, Rodriguez talks about how, in college, he:
saw my peers who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction and behavior. These men were in a bind. If they shared with our Christian college administration, they ran the risk of being punished for violating the school’s code of conduct. If they sought counseling off-campus, they often got set up with a therapist that claimed to be a Christian, but would not affirm their values and would try to convince them to embrace a gay self-label and explore homosexual relationships.
Rodriguez believes that affirming a queer identity is wrong, so he decided to practice conversion therapy. He was kicked out of graduate school, but he persists, refusing to believe he might be wrong.
This has cost me job opportunities and made me the target of frivolous complaints to my old employer and my state board from complete strangers. With the enactment…
