{"id":11443,"date":"2011-01-16T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2011-01-16T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T13:00:34","slug":"therapist-faces-being-struck-off-for-helping-gay-men-go-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/therapist-faces-being-struck-off-for-helping-gay-men-go-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapist faces being struck off for helping gay men go straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A psychotherapist faces being struck off after trying to ‘convert’ a homosexual man.<\/p>\n

Lesley Pilkington, 60, a\u00a0 therapist for 20 years, is accused of ‘praying to God’ to ‘heal’ the patient .<\/p>\n

Mrs Pilkington, will appear at a landmark disciplinary hearing this week where she faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

The patient, a homosexual rights campaigner, secretly recorded her controversial treatment at two sessions before reporting her to the association.<\/p>\n

A small group of counsellors believe all men are born heterosexual, but some choose a gay lifestyle which can be changed through therapy\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

She treated journalist Patrick Strudwick at her private practice based at her home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, after he approached her at a Christian conference.<\/p>\n

He recorded the sessions on a tape machine strapped to his stomach. Asked if she viewed homosexuality as a ‘mental illness, an addiction or an anit-religious phenomenon’, she replied: ‘It is all of that’.<\/p>\n

In the disciplinary letter sent to her by BACP, she is accused of having an ‘agenda that homosexuality is wrong and that gay people can change and you allegedly attempted to inflict these views on him.’<\/p>\n

Mrs Pilkington accused Strudwick of entrapment. She said: ‘He told me was looking for a treatment for being gay.<\/p>\n

‘I told him I only work using a Christian biblical framework and he said that was exactly what he wanted.’<\/p>\n

Her defence is being funded by the Christian Legal Centre which has instructed a leading religious rights barrister to fight the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is preposterous. The therapist isn\u2019t forcing<\/em> gay men to come to her: no one is. If gay crusaders have their way, it will become illegal to help gay men who do want to change – and there are some – making it close to compulsory for someone with homosexual inclinations to act them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: A psychotherapist faces being struck off after trying to ‘convert’ a homosexual man. Lesley Pilkington, 60, a\u00a0 therapist for 20 years, is accused of ‘praying to God’ to ‘heal’ the patient . Mrs Pilkington, will appear at a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167,2225],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}