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Ex-Gay Foe Bids to Head Psychiatric Group

Ministries say Jack Drescher could limit their ability to operate

CitizenLink (a Focus on the Family website), November 14, 2005

An open homosexual who is an antagonist of ex-gay ministries is running for president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

Jack Drescher heads the APA's Committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues and has touted his ties to gay-rights groups in his APA position statement. He's been harsh in his criticism of ex-gay groups.

"They can mask it in the language of love all they want," he recently said, "but it's about revulsion and hatred of homosexuality."

There is concern among groups that reach out to those wanting to leave homosexuality that if Drescher should win, he could use that power to place obstacles in their way.

Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, said Drescher's ascendancy could mean dark days ahead.

"I'm very concerned that our culture is being fed misinformation and that people are reacting in a way that is detrimental to our religious liberties," he said. "Today he's equating reparative therapy and a client's right to self determination with a quack cure for homosexuality, which is absolutely not true."

Dr. Peter Hill, an APA member, said the president of the association cannot single-handedly ban reparative therapy, "but he will have much influence on what actually gets out to the floor and how it's being presented to the council of reps."

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