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Michele Bachmann’s ‘Ex-Gay’ Client Comes Out As Gay: ‘In the End, My Sexuality is a Beautiful Gift from God’

December 12, 2014 by Michael Fitzgerald

Religion News Service is carrying an interview with “conversion therapy” survivor Christian Schizzel who lays bare his experiences with Janet Boynes Ministries and Michele and Marcus Bachmann’s “counselling” services

The bad news keeps on coming for the ailing, harmful “ex-gay” movement.  

SchizzelFollowing a number of recent high profile announcements from former “ex-gay” activists attacking “conversion therapy” and a ban on the practice in Washington, D.C., Religion News Service is carrying an interview with “conversion therapy” survivor Christian Schizzel who lays bare his experiences with Janet Boynes Ministries and GOP nuts Michele and Marcus Bachmann’s “counselling” services.

Christian “spent seven years being trotted around the country on media outlets as a poster boy for the ex-gay movement. Now, after reclaiming his gay identity, Christian says he won’t be a weapon anymore.”

To those still promoting the use of a harmful, hateful practice, Christian has this to say:

“I hope they realize this path leads to a horrid dead end. It’s harmful and excruciatingly painful. There’s no academic or spiritual basis for its promotion.

"I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone, not even the ones who harmed me the most in this life.

"In the end, my sexuality is a beautiful gift from God,  and every day, I have found, I have to make a choice to honor it in the straight man’s world.”

Read the full interview here. 

Previously, "Dan Savage: Marcus Bachmann Is a 'Tormented Closet Case'" [tlrd]

Filed Under: Marcus Bachmann, Michelle Bachmann, Republican Party Tagged With: "Ex-Gays", Conversion Therapy, Ex-Gay, Health, I'm Gay, Janet Boynes, Marcus Bachmann, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Bachmann, Republican Party

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