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