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10/11/2011
TWO, SPLC: Appending an 'ex-' prefix isn't 'change'
Awesome new effort from two great groups:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Truth Wins Out (TWO) launched a national campaign today targeting conversion therapy, a thriving practice that claims to “convert” people from homosexuality to heterosexuality. The groups made the announcement in coordination with today’s National Coming Out Day.
The campaign will begin with a series of community meetings in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., for survivors of the practice, which has been discredited or highly criticized by virtually all major American medical, psychiatric, psychological and professional counseling organizations. Survivors are also invited to share their own stories at www.splcenter.org/conversion-therapy. The campaign also will encourage community advocates and elected leaders to scrutinize local conversion therapy programs.
KEEP READING: Southern Poverty Law Center and Truth Wins Out Launch Campaign Targeting Destructive Conversion Therapy [TWO]
What I love about this, beyond the obvious: We know the SPLC has a particularly heightened way of ruffling the anti-LGBT groups' feathers, so it's a near certainty that many of the groups will respond to this campaign, getting more and more people on record regarding their stance on so-called "ex-gay" therapy. When they do so in the affirmative (or negative, I should say), they will help us highlight how much beyond marriage and certain other debate rights their fight really goes. The more of them who go on record to support these widely rejected "change" practices, the larger our dossier for proving how deep and unfortunate the animus towards orientation itself can and does run.
Good show, TWO and SPLC pals.
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