Press freedom and journalistic integrity eroded by ‘conversion therapy’ bans
from Christian Concern:
The premiere of the film Once Gay: Matthew and Friends has generated a lot of press coverage, but not all of it has been favourable or honest. Carys Moseley looks at what the press coverage reveals about freedom of speech and expression in both the UK and Malta and concludes that the press itself is contributing to the erosion of freedom of speech.
Press coverage of the screenings of the film Once Gay: Matthew and Friends is highly significant in what it reveals and reflects about press treatment of the debates over ‘conversion therapy’ and the ex-LGBT movement. In reality, sections of the press are complicit in the push for ‘therapy bans’ implemented by the mental health professional bodies and national governments. This means that parts of the press are actually eroding freedom of expression, and therefore press freedom. We can see this clearly when we compare treatment of the topic in the UK and Maltese press.
‘Conversion therapy’ is a deceitful term
The London-based LGBT news site Pink News published an extensive article making the misleading claim that the film was ‘celebrating conversion therapy’. The term ‘conversion therapy’ is a deceitful nonsense term that was originally invented by a gay activist psychologist called Douglas Haldeman in 1994, to lump talking therapy together with electroshock treatment and hormones. The real purpose is to discredit therapy as ‘torture’. Clearly in this sense nobody involved in counselling or therapy or spiritual care for unwanted same-sex attraction practises ‘conversion therapy’!
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