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Canada’s opposition call for removal of charitable status for ‘ex-gay’ groups

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Image via Wikipedia Delegates with Canada’s newly-minted official Opposition, the New Democrat Party (NDP), passed a resolution calling on the government to revoke the charitable status of groups that support those seeking to overcome same-sex attraction at their policy convention in Vancouver last month. Introducing the resolution, which was passed unanimously, outgoing “ LGBT ” co-chair Matthew McLaughlin specifically urged the government to revoke the status of Exodus Global Alliance , and asked that they investigate other ex-gay groups as well. “ Ex-gay organisations … take advantage of LGB people, often in vulnerable family situations or at grips with depression and self-hatred, and browbeat them — saying that LGB people never live happy lives, that we are unhealthy and unwhole, and that we never experience love and that the only hope lies in their therapies,” said McLaughlin, according to the homosexual blog Slap Upside the Head. Randall Garrison , the NDP’s “queer issues” c

The Mother of the Homosexual Movement - Evelyn Hooker PhD

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Image via Wikipedia Although few have heard of her outside the movement she helped to shape, the psychologist Evelyn Hooker ’s contributions to the advance of the homosexual political movement puts her in an historical class with Margaret Sanger , the foundress of Planned Parenthood and institutionalized abortion, and Alfred Kinsey the "father" of the sexual revolution. Hooker, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles for 30 years, is credited in the medical and psychological community, and most especially amongst homosexual political activists, with establishing that there is no measurable psychological difference between heterosexual and homosexual men.  Her work introduced and developed the idea that homosexuality, far from being a mental disorder, is merely a normal minority variant on human sexuality. Hooker’s influential study on the issue, first published in 1957 in the Journal of Projective Techniques, was and still is presented a