“We really need to get rid of Ex-Gay groups. I would like to see Christians, en masse, abandon these groups, to recognize that they don’t work. If they want to help people be celibate because that’s what they believe people are called to do, more power to them, but to tell people they can become straight and torture them psychologically is incredibly wrong.”
Cormac Shine is a historian and journalist currently based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, where his research focuses on the history of papal diplomacy and…