Cohen fitting the peg in the hole (L); he has said “You’ve got to feel it to heal it.”
Yipes. Is there a catfight? After “conversion therapist” Richard Cohen’s embarrassing, clownish appearance on The Daily Show demonstrating his techniques on how he frees men from homosexuality (the clip was yanked by YouTube, photos below from my post on it), Exodus International’s Randy Thomas couldn’t take it any more. He had to unload on Cohen for making the movement look bad.
Richard is not the foremost of anything except making a spectacle of himself and completely misrepresenting the larger “ex-gay” movement. He is not a part of Exodus and apparently not willing to take our private feedback and accountability to heart.Hat tip Jim Burroway, at Ex-Gay Watch, who asks a few logical questions about a movement that is unclear what a “cure” is:So, if he is willing to allow “ex-gays” to continue to be circus show fodder for those who mock our sincere beliefs, he deserves the public denouncement this post brings.
A sample of his “therapy” from a report on CNN, via Truth Wins Out. You can see the hilarious CNN segment here.Richard Cohen does not represent me or thousands like me, who have moved beyond a life defined by being “gay.”
…Richard, stop doing these type of interviews and listen to us when we say that your therapeutic, coaching… whatever … approach is not above reproach as so obviously displayed every time you show up on television.
Is it therapy or is it ministry? Is it faith that brings “change” or is it psychology? And if there is a psychological component, how is anybody to know that Cohen is a charlatan and someone else isn’t? After all, there are no standards to guide anyone on this. There’s just Exodus’ word to go on, unless you would rather believe NARTH or Cohen. Or the guy’s voice on the subliminal therapy tape from The Daily Show.As long as ex-gay groups continue to be unclear about what they do and how they do it, as long as they continue to talk around gays and lesbians instead of speaking plainly using ordinary language that everyone can understand, this confusion is likely to continue.
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That was a great, funny segment! I loved how the Daily Show guy kept asking Cohen for his credentials and Cohen kept having to repeat that he has none. Great bit.
You know, they say it is easy to make people look bad in the “editing”. Sorry, but some people look like fools because they are or at least act like fools.
If a person has had and enjoyed sex with men and with women, isn’t that person a “current-bi,” regarless of current partner(s), and not an “ex-gay”?
You’re never going to get to the All-England Club finals at Wimbledon that way, you silly man!
This reminds of me the Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa visit Duff Gardens with their Aunt Selma. Lisa drinks the “water� at the Duff world ride and starts hallucinating, claiming at one point that she is “the Lizard Queen!�
In one scene, a Duff Gardens employee in a white lab coat approaches Selma with a handful of pills. After he directs her to dope Lisa with them, Selma says, “thank you, doctor.�
“Oh, I’m not a doctor.�
“A psychiatrist, then?�
“No.�
Cohen is proselytizing, plain and simple. This is a classic fundamentalist religious concept. After all, he has NO CREDENTIALS. That means simply that he is a FRAUD.
People who have no credentials are FRAUDS. Cohen is a FRAUD. Let me say that again. Look at the facts. NO CREDENTIALS = FRAUD. He’s pretending that he has some sort of ’secret’.
Get it? He is nothing more than a shrill person who is telling you and me that when I have sex with my male partner that I’m ‘really’ trying to get closer to my dad. That’s called ‘projecting’. Maybe that’s what HE wanted to do, but that’s NOT what I want to do. I’m as close to my dad as I ever want to be. Anything closer and I’d have to shout EWWWWWWWW!
Why doesn’t he come out with it, so to speak, and say “freaks like you give charletans a bad name!”
The video is still on comedycentral.com.
I believe the proper nomenclature is “Daily Sh0wned.”
I laughed so hard I nearly cried when the daily show interviewer called him “doctor”
I’m not a doctor
well, you are a psychologist?
no, I”m not a psychologist?
well, you are liscensced?
no, I don’ thave a liscence.
but you are jewish?
well, by birth…
It still cracks me up.
But I believe his former freinds will be turning on him and saying he’s *still gay* and that is the problem with him before they admit that they are all still gay and that there is no cure. The movement can only be failed, it can never fail. This is as true of the ex gay movement as it is of conservativism. It will soon be made clear that richard cohen was never really one of them.
aimai
but what if you’re ex-bi-curious?
I dont need ‘cured’……….
I am exactly as I was created…..
I’m gay. I am cured. I had a great childhood with two amazing parents. Sorry, Cohen.