{"id":20106,"date":"2015-06-18T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:05:47","slug":"bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/r780286_6709564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2015\/06\/r780286_6709564-360x239.jpg\" alt=\"r780286_6709564\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\"><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/?s=new+jersey\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a> jury is&nbsp;hearing testimony&nbsp;in a lawsuit alleging that&nbsp;Jersey City-based Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/judge-to-ex-gays-sorry-but-your-conversion-clinics-are-a-bunch-of-b-s-20150212\" target=\"_blank\">violated state consumer fraud laws<\/a> when it promised&nbsp;to turn <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people straight.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, exactly went on inside JONAH&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;conversion therapy clinic&rdquo; is&nbsp;being made public, and it&rsquo;s not pretty.<\/p>\n<p>This week, JONAH co-founders Arthur Goldberg and Elaine Silodor Berk along with &ldquo;life coach&rdquo; Alan Downing admitted under oath to&nbsp;employing what even the&nbsp;group&rsquo;s&nbsp;own defense attorney <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a>&nbsp;&ldquo;bizarre&rdquo; conversion therapy methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/grieving-mother-says-gay-conversion-therapy-killed-my-son-20141201\">Grieving Mother Says &ldquo;Gay Conversion Therapy Killed My Son&rdquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are just four of the&nbsp;methods:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Forcing clients&nbsp;to&nbsp;stare at their own fathers&rsquo; genitals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Duct-taping <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&nbsp;together and then lecturing them about&nbsp;the&nbsp;&ldquo;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> deathstyle&rdquo; and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/ex-gay-adult-film-star-turned-minister-joseph-sciambra-complains-about-gay-bowel-syndrome-and-porn-culture-20150417\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;bowel disease.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>&nbsp;Asking <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> to&nbsp;and&nbsp;masturbate in front of a mirror while therapists&nbsp;watched&nbsp;(Downing insists&nbsp;this was voluntary).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I do not tell someone they should take off their clothes,&rdquo; he&nbsp;testified. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an invitation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> &ldquo;Journeys Into Manhood&rdquo; or &ldquo;Journeys Beyond.&rdquo; These&nbsp;48-hour weekends included taking victims to a secret location and insisting they&nbsp;participate in&nbsp;exercises ranging from getting completely <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">naked<\/a> with counselors&nbsp;to&nbsp;blindfolding them while screaming homophobic slurs. Props in the bizarre activities&nbsp;included&nbsp;duct tape, bed sheets, rope, oranges, baby powder, and handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Downing,&nbsp;&ldquo;[The duct tape] is a metaphor &hellip; the idea of the tape is to create some level of resistance. We try to create an external metaphor to take the story outside of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>&rsquo;s mind.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Downing, Goldberg, Berk nor&nbsp;any of JONAH&rsquo;s staff mental boast any real mental health credentials. Yet they insisted to the jury that&nbsp;they&nbsp;&ldquo;try to adhere to &hellip; ethical guidelines.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013,&nbsp;Gov. Chris Christie, A Repubican presidential aspirant,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/new-jersey-to-officially-ban-gay-conversion-therapy-on-minors-20130819\" target=\"_blank\">signed a law<\/a> banning conversion therapy in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/the-horrors-inside-a-christian-conversion-cult-are-exposed-first-hand-20140708\">The Horrors Inside A Christian Conversion Cult Are Exposed First-Hand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>h\/t: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/120562\/handcuffs-baby-powder-duct-tape-the-most-jaw-dropping-conversion-therapy-practices\" target=\"_blank\">Mic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=ejzCCUGD_8k:o8xHgM8Ahro:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=ejzCCUGD_8k:o8xHgM8Ahro:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Graham Gremore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/ejzCCUGD_8k\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders-20150618\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/ejzCCUGD_8k\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders-20150618<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders A New Jersey jury is&nbsp;hearing testimony&nbsp;in a lawsuit alleging that&nbsp;Jersey City-based Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, violated state consumer fraud laws when it promised&nbsp;to turn <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people straight. In the process, exactly went on inside JONAH&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;conversion therapy clinic&rdquo; is&nbsp;being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bizarre-and-homophobic-conversion-practices-exposed-in-trial-of-ex-gay-leaders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bizarre And Homophobic Conversion Practices Exposed In Trial Of Ex-Gay Leaders A New Jersey jury is&nbsp;hearing testimony&nbsp;in a lawsuit alleging that&nbsp;Jersey City-based Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, violated state consumer fraud laws when it promised&nbsp;to turn gay people straight. 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