Four Gay Men Suing Organization Because They Were Not "Cured"
Therapy included having the men hit effigies of their mothers with baseball bats
NEW YORK (AP) - Four gay men are accusing a New Jersey organization of fraud for selling "conversion therapy" that falsely promised to make them straight.
They said at a Manhattan news conference Tuesday that they were subjected to humiliations that included stripping naked and taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers.
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My guess is they would have also sued if they had been "cured". This lawsuit sounds like the fraud to me.
Religious folks are always trying to cure us of what they see as sin. If you don't think it's a sin, don't go.