Discredited NARTH approved by CA body to give continuing ed credits to psychologists, therapists - Polidicks

This story needs to receive mainstream media attention. The Blend and [URL="http://www.towleroad.com/2011/07/dangerous-ex-gay-organization-narth-accredited-by-california-board-of-behavioral-sciences-for-licens.html"]Andy Towle[/URL], received an email from licensed psychologist Katie Doyon, who conveyed a mind-boggling bit of business - National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ([URL="http://narth.com/"]NARTH)[/URL], an organization that endorses ex-gay therapy, is being given legitimacy by California's licensing body for mental health professionals. Therapists and psychologists can actually attend sessions and earn CEUs from NARTH. From the email: [quote] I am a Licensed Educational Psychologist here in Los Angeles. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences is responsible for licensing LEPs, MFTs, and LCSWs here in California. I was recently looking at BBS website in order to determine which organizations I could obtain my continuing education credits from in order to renew my license. Much to my shock and sadness, the BBS accepts CEUs from NARTH. I am absolutely appalled. No therapist in California should be able to renew their license by obtaining CEUs from this hateful organization. "Homosexual conversion therapy" is not supported by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, or the American Counselors Association. I have written the the BBS with my concerns, but I have not heard back. Could you help me bring attention to this issue? We need to get them removed from this list ASAP. I am including some links to NARTH and the BBS below. The continuing education provider list is here. NARTH is number 1240 on the list: [URL]http://www.bbs.ca.gov/pdf/forms/celist.pdf[/URL][/quote] Karen Ocamb of LGBTPOV got Doyon to [URL="http://www.lgbtpov.com/2011/07/lesbian-school-psychologist-discovers-narth-oked-to-give-continuing-education-credits/"]go on the record[/URL]: [quote] Ironically, this comes just the [URL="http://www.lgbtpov.com/2011/07/truth-wins-out-undercover-investigation-exposes-michele-bachmanns-husband/"]mainstream media is widely reporting[/URL] on the [URL="http://www.truthwinsout.org/"]Truth Wins Out[/URL] investigation that exposed Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus of running an “ex-gay” or “reparative therapy” clinic to “pray away the gay” – and they received Medicare funding to do this discredited work. Of course, Religious Right groups such as [URL="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/07/12/abc-hit-piece-targets-michele-bachmann-and-ex-gays/"]Americans for Truth[/URL] (which the Southern Poverty Law Center [URL="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners"]declared a “hate group[/URL]”) calls the reporting by ABC News’ investigative reporter Brian Ross a “hit piece” and asked: “Shouldn’t it have occurred to Ross to sit down with and interview a SUCCESSFUL former homosexual like [URL="http://www.janetboynesministries.com/"][B]Janet Boynes[/B][/URL].” ...The BBS and the state of California should not be supporting NARTH’s attempt to promulgate their unethical, pseudo-scientific “therapy.” Their pseudo-science has not been published in any legitimate peer reviewed journals and is limited to anecdotes from those claiming to be “cured.” Rightfully, homosexuality was removed from the DSM in 1973, as the psychological and medical community longer considered it to be a mental disorder. Simply put, homosexuality should not be pathologized, as homosexuals do not require treatment for their same sex attractions. Conversion therapy is not supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, or the American Counseling Association. ... Doyon says she has written to the [URL="http://www.bbs.ca.gov/pdf/forms/celist.pdf%20"]Board of Behavioral Sciences [/URL] but has not yet filed a formal complaint.[/quote] There is a [URL="http://change.org/"]Change.org[/URL] petition campaign to have NARTH removed from the list of accredited providers. Sign it here: [URL]http://www.change.org/petitions/ex-gay-therapy-kills-stop-accrediting-narth[/URL].

I feel that large amounts of cash were involved in NARTH's application to be able to give out CEUs.

Stay classy america, There's progress in 1 state then 12 others try their best to step on gay rights.

Just as much as gays have a right to do whatever, people who don't like have a right to not like it.

[QUOTE=Sourcream&onion;31098462]Just as much as gays have a right to do whatever, people who don't like have a right to not like it.[/QUOTE] But they don't have a right to actively hurt those that they don't like. This "therapy" only teaches self-hatred, and it negatively affects all who go through it.

And so the continued one step forward a bajillion steps back continues.

[QUOTE=Sourcream&onion;31098462]Just as much as gays have a right to do whatever, people who don't like have a right to not like it.[/QUOTE] They have a right to not like it. They don't have a right to enact laws which introduce homophobia into institutions.

I'm waiting for someone to make a game that satires America- a game in which there are many different peoples, but there's one kind of people that fight and slaughter all the other kinds, and do their best to stop all progress. After you win their trust for a little while, they begin to tell you about how great their culture is, and how free and unstressed they are, how they accept all peoples and all ideas. Then (shocker) they begin to attack you because you're kind of different from them in a small way.

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31098647]They have a right to not like it. They don't have a right to enact laws which introduce homophobia into institutions.[/QUOTE] I never said it was okay that they did that, but if some wingnut Tea Party candidate's oddly feminine husband wants to offer anti-homosexual therapy in his clinic, he can do it as long as he's not forcing people to take part in it.

[QUOTE=Sourcream&onion;31099768]I never said it was okay that they did that, but if some wingnut Tea Party candidate's oddly feminine husband wants to offer anti-homosexual therapy in his clinic, he can do it as long as he's not forcing people to take part in it.[/QUOTE] You do know what the Religious right does right? They have camps in utah that parents forcefully send their kids to via kidnapping that do the same thing.

[QUOTE=Nikota;31099920]You do know what the Religious right does right? They have camps in utah that parents forcefully send their kids to via kidnapping that do the same thing.[/QUOTE] And some of them even die. A few kill themselves, but most of the deaths are caused by the kids not following orders and having the employees tackle and then lay on them for about an hour- they literally get crushed/suffocate to death.

[QUOTE=willer;31101155]And some of them even die. A few kill themselves, but most of the deaths are caused by the kids not following orders and having the employees tackle and then lay on them for about an hour- they literally get crushed/suffocate to death.[/QUOTE] WASP camps, oh my lord that's some of the most gruesome shit I've seen coming out of america since... ever.

[QUOTE=Nikota;31099920]You do know what the Religious right does right? They have camps in utah that parents forcefully send their kids to via kidnapping that do the same thing.[/QUOTE] Considering that that is an extreme, and not something most religious people would do, it doesn't give you the right to suppress their right to preach about suppressing somebody else's rights.

[QUOTE=Miskav;31108257]WASP camps, oh my lord that's some of the most gruesome shit I've seen coming out of america since... ever.[/QUOTE] Yeah I really don't see how they're legal saying as you're holding a person against their will.

That guy has the same last name as me :downs:

[QUOTE=Fatman55;31109321]Yeah I really don't see how they're legal saying as you're holding a person against their will.[/QUOTE] Because since they are children, they are still technically the property of the parents. This is usually a good thing, it lets parents pretty much discipline the child, but in cases like this the parents literally sign over their rights of owning the child to the company, who then proceeds to kidnap the child, put him/her in a camp, then torture the gay out of them. Even still, I'm pretty sure it's illegal, but they've managed to avoid most legal refractions by shuttling the children to a different state, so when the parents go to court the judge has to throw out the case because it's not in his jurisdiction. Glad I'm not in Utah/wherever those camps are. In Florida they even fly the kids to Jamaica (sorry, can't spell that) and put them in a camp there.