I will give Cohen credit for these three things: he condemned the Ugandan bill, said that he's fine with homosexuals "choosing" to stay gay, and said that his therapy is for those with "unwanted" homosexual feelings. Of course, growing up in the Catholic church and going through the seminary system, someone like me was conditioned by "well-intentioned" men like Cohen to believe that any and all homosexual feelings were bad and unwanted. (I did have one counselor that broke that mode, whom I will write about at a later time.) Still, what child doesn't want to please his/her parents and their god?
On the other hand, I must discredit Cohen, whose words and scientifically discredited claims (in his books Coming out Straight and Gay Children, Straight Parents) have been used to stoke fear of gays molesting children, to justify laws against gays including killing gays, and also most likely by parents who have forced their children into ex-gay therapy.
Ms. Maddow calls him out on this stating:
This is made up, fake authoritative stuff that in other countries is being taken as science and used to justify, quite literally, killing gay people.
I do think that you've actually got blood on your hands here, because the way you have been used, and your organization has been used, and your staffers have been used to make this legislation a reality in Uganda.
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