Thread by @JamesMartinSJ

Just watched an advance copy of "Pray Away," an important new film about the dangers of so-called "conversion therapy," with interviews with former leaders of the movement, who have now disavowed conversion therapy and apologized to the LGBTQ community...

Did you know that in the US alone some 700,000 people have undergone therapy, and that LGBT youth who had conversion therapy were more than twice as like to have attempted suicide? It is emotionally, physically and spiritually devastating...

And it is, as @americamag recently reported, still promoted in some parts of the Catholic Church, both in the US and abroad.

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Here is the investigation by @evetushnet at @americamag americamagazine.org/faith/2021/05/…