
Do you remember Richard Cohen? He’s the sad sack embarrassment of the therapize-away-the-gay movement who has been mocked by his fellow “recloseted homosexuals” and he has been expelled from the American Counseling Association.
The practitioner of the zero-credibility reparative therapy at the International Healing Foundation includes cuddling sessions with his patients (“You’ve got to feel it to heal it.”), and hitting a pillow with a tennis racquet and screaming (MOM!…WHY…DID…YOU…DO…THIS…TO…ME!!!). He has already provided rich material for Comedy Central and CNN.
Rachel Maddow introduced her audience to Cohen last night.
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Interesting that he uses the word “disavow”I grew up watching Mission: Impossible (the real thing, not the Tom Cruise crap.)
As usual Jim, if any member of your IM Force is caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
Per accepted deceptive use: “disavow” does not mean ‘actual disagreement with’ or ‘actual opposition to’ or ‘intent to do something about.’
It means “on-the-fly, implausible-in-fact-yet-self-declared-nevertheless, plausible deniability.”
Okay that was just Beautiful!He got his hat handed to him! But naming names is what needs to happen. Paul Cameron and Richard Cohen are as guilty in this country for the rising bigotry against our LGBT community as they are with Stephen Langa of this legislation against the LGBT community in Uganda.
Wow – is this guy a piece of workHe tries to claim that Rachel, when she says that he believes people choose to be gay, has mischaracterized what he believes – and his response is that he believes that people actually are born ‘that way’ and that ‘change is possible.’
Uh huh….
So what he’s actually saying is that Rachel is maligning him by saying that he says people choose to be gay – yet what he himself claims he’s saying is that people are born gay but simply choose not to be straight.
Wow – this guy really missed his calling in life.
He should have been a lawyer…
for the tobacco industry.
Jon Stewartwould have a field day with this guy…
Links… are…our… friends…
And he’s suddenly decided to remove the Paul Cameron nonsense…whenever the third edition of his book might happen to come out? How magnanimous of him – and tuff sh*t for anyone who might have gotten killed by someone who might have read editions one or two, eh?
Interesting that he’s complaining about people focusing on that single passage in a 200+ page book…
when people in his line of work tend to obsess over one particular passage from Leviticus in a multi-hundred page book, whilst ignoring passages that speak of condoning slavery and daughter-killing as well as passages that command the rich to help the poor.
CreepyIs it me, or does the expression on his face look like he just got out of the training camp in The Manchurian Candidate?
All I can say that if he really is no longer gay, then he’s the world’s biggest cured ham.
(I wonder how many of the “thousands” he’s cured still have active accounts on MANHUNT.net?)
Richard Cohen is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my lifeI wonder if he likes to play solitaire? Or has a step-father who is a dimwitted senator?
Here’s exclusive footage of an “Ex-Gay” Training Session!
Hmph…the connection between homosexuality and raceI remember studying some aspect or another of ancient India when I first ran accross the idea that the darker skinned indigineous peoples of India were more prone to homosexual relations.
You will find some of that in some writings of white suprmacy as it pertains to sexual habits of black people.
It seems that white supremacy hasn’t changed on bit.
He got pwnedIf you’ve ever read his books, you know just how dangerous this guy is. Way to go, Rachael!
What a sleazebag!That guy was SO creepy — even his smile gave me the shivers.
It was so obvious he never directly answered any of the questions Rachel asked him. She did an amazing job of making him look like an idiot with his own words.
Rachel is the best! If she ever wants to be our first lesbian president, she’s got my vote.
Rachel should have given this dildo an all paid 2 week trip to Ugandafor 2, he can take Donnie McClurkin with him.
I find myself wondering, still again,why Cohen, Cameron and their colleagues aren’t prosecuted for fraud. I know the church-based “reparative” programs have the first amendment as cover, but these creeps claim to be purely secular and science-based. If practicing medicine without a license is a criminal, prosecutable offense, why isn’t practicing “clinical therapy” without a license? A few choice lawsuits would put these con artists out of business, I imagine, or at least send them scurrying back under the cover of Christianity, along with most of the other nutjobs running loose in this country.
But…
But…
Taking that clown at his word, he removed himself from the protection of that cloak.
Recall how he insisted that what he was up to was not ‘pray away the gay’?
Is SOME attorney general SOMEWHERE listening??
Wing-nuts junk scientists funding hatred in AfricaI cannot understand how these people sleep at night knowing that they are psychologically torturing people instead of helping them. Seems that the far right goes out of its way to do this, whether its purposes are to make themselves feel superior to us or they truly just want to make money from their bigotry or both.
a line I posted at HuffPo……it brought me 3 new fans…..LOLTruth be told Cohen didn’t cure HIMSELF, it was the joint effort of all the Gay community who prayed…..”Jesus get this ignorant meat puppet out of our lives!”
Uganda = The Utah of Africa
I got LIVID reading the motherf*cking comments Utah Mormons posted at Deseret News on Uganda genocideOne commentor with the nickname = GOOD
said” maybe we could try that here”
here’s the Deseret News story link http://www.deseretnews.com/use…
They probably won’t post your comments
Who Knew?A Jew who helps to incite a holocaust!
I don’t think there’s much of a relationship, if any…To race. Sure, some sexual traits could be tied to race, like freckles to red hair, but it seems pretty unlikely.
What is more likely is that in certain cultures and sub-cultures, it is less accepted, and therefore fewer GLBT people in those groups are open.
I don’t know…I’m pretty sure being forced up against this guy long enough could put me off men.
I was going to namea different thing than his hat, but OK. Rachel totally owned him, and I love it!
I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
Just LOOKING at him does that to me.