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Inversion Therapy: To Be or Not To Be That Which One Condemns
“I was a religious zealot that hurt people. People said they attempted suicide over me and the things I said to them. People, I know, are in therapy because of me. Why would I want that to continue?” — McKrae Game
When irony strikes in life, it can strike while the metal is hot, for the betterment of the rights of the accused, so called accusations, and to the advancement of a culture of critical thinking. Mahita Gajanan in Time described the story of McKrae Game who is a former conversion therapy advocate.
Game founded a South Carolina conversion therapy program. He is its former leader. “Former” because he came out of the closet; he’s gay. Now 51, Game came out two years after being fired by the Hope for Wholeness program, which was founded in 1999. The explicit and sole purpose of the conversion therapy program founded by Game was to rid non-heterosexual people of their sexual orientation identity, which comes with the hidden premise of this as a lifestyle or not something innate to the human being.
This can be all fun and games to popular freethought groups. However, as noted by Game, these institutions, religious orientation and ideological backings, individual biases, and practices & practitioners, and the like, lead to people ‘attempting suicide’ based on “things… said to them” or enter into “therapy” because of it. People die because of this garbage. That’s why it matters to speak frankly and to…
