Conversion therapy has helped many

I’M sorry to say that councillor Eoin Tennyson’s letter of July 24 is a typical example of LGBT supporters using pejorative language to shut down those who disagree with them.

“Gay conversion” does not describe the work groups like the Core Issues Trust does.

That was something practised by the medical profession many years ago and has long since stopped. Neither is anything being “inflicted” on those seeking help. It is entirely voluntary and no coercion is practised.

The Ozanne report referred to has been criticised by professionals as unrepresentative and flawed in its methodology.

While not minimising the suffering caused in the past, we cannot escape the fact that things are different now.

Otherwise, on that basis, we should be calling for the shutting down of the NHS because of all the mistakes it made in the past.

Bible-believing Christians have every right to their beliefs that homosexual acts are against God’s plans, and studies have shown that quite a percentage of homosexuals were abused when young by an older man, which confused and upset their thinking.

Surely they should have the right to talk over their concerns with counsellors? This is what the therapy really is: to see how they can be helped either to accept their same-sex attraction but live a celibate life, or else, as others have done, enter into a normal marriage and family life.

If it is all right for someone to leave his wife and children and decide he is gay, why can the opposite not happen, especially as, despite all the searching, no gay gene has been found, and even people like Peter Tatchell have admitted that sexuality can be fluid?

Has councillor Tennyson actually taken time to listen to some of those who have found this therapy helpful, or is he using the LGBT tactic of attempting to silence all dissenting voices?

MRS S WILSON Tandragee Co Armagh