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Q&A With McKrae Game Former Conversion Therapist & Founder of Hope for Wellness Contributions by Nidia Torres | Design by itzel Montoya
Q: What was the main goal Hope for Wholeness wanted to achieve?
A: It’s primarily trying to help people
Q: How was the faithbased approach supposed to help people?
A: Ex-gay ministry or conversion ther-
Q: When you were a therapist, did you know that conversion therapy was illegal in other states?
A:
to live according to their own religious framework. Basically, helping them to live life that is congruent with their religious and personal beliefs. It’s not trying to make people straight.
apy is not just limited to Christian faith. It’s also in Catholicism and Mormonism … It’s all very similar in that people that are firm believers in their faith, that is what they live their lives by. That was the primary reason for starting Truth Ministry and Hope for Wholeness was because at the time, that was my biggest focus and it was always the biggest focus of the people that would come to see us.
Conversion therapy is actually not illegal in any state … There’s no state that has banned it. There is no restriction against nonprofit religious organizations, even to minors … Most all of the conversion therapy [and] ex-gay organizations are not professionally licensed therapists, so that rule does not have any bearing against them.
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