The report notes that conversion practices were once part of mainstream medicine but are now "firmly rejected by mainstream science and medicine". Now they are the focus of a Tasmanian Law Reform Institute report released today that accepted 182 submissions and proposed a change of law in the state. "And to be criminalised for praying for someone would seem to be beyond the pale."Ī large number of international and some national jurisdictions have already banned conversion practices. "It's true that we uphold what Jesus Christ taught about gender and sexuality, that's very true. "People have all kinds of confused sexual attractions, who also can find that that doesn't have to define them," he says. "At last all my work had paid off, I'm not queer anymore, I'm normal, I'm not disgusting."īut it did not take long for her to realise nothing had changed, and she was still same-sex attracted.įor Erenie, this felt like the ultimate failure. "They made us believe that we'd actually chosen to be gay, and it was a direct result of our fathers not hugging us enough when we were little and from listening to K.D Lang in the 90s, along with equally other absurd theories."īeing one of the few people to graduate, Erenie says she was "healed of my lesbianism". "They made us march around the perimeter of the block every morning - confessing out loud our sins and all the evil that we'd let into our lives," she says. She says she still has "repetitive nightmares about it to this day", years later. "There's a big group of women out there that are still healing from their stay." "It was a kind of cross between the army, a psych ward and a convent," Erenie says. Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467īad publicity and an investigation by the ACCC forced the closure of a controversial counselling program linked to the evangelical Hillsong church.
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Some former clients of Mercy Ministries claim they were denied professional help and were instead exorcised and told simply to repent their sins. On its website, Mercy Ministries said it treated women aged 16 to 28 years old by "providing homes and care for young women suffering the effects of eating disorders, self-harm, abuse, depression, unplanned pregnancies and other life-controlling issues".
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"For nine months, I was isolated in a place where same-sex attraction was treated as though it was a mental illness.