Standard Examiner reports on Evergreen International and Robert Spitzer renouncing his 2001 study on the efficacy of gay reparative therapy.
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- News (traditional)
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- Peggy Fletcher Stack LDSCritic
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- DirectJournalism
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Peggy Fletcher Stack, "Mormon group still using discredited ‘gay cure’ therapy," Standard Examiner, May 27, 2012, accessed March 22, 2022
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- Standard-Examiner
- People
- Ken Zucker, Rob Lauer, Jay C. Wade, Peggy Fletcher Stack, David Pruden, Lance B. Wickman, Elan Karten, Robert L. Spitzer
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- Reading Public
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Mormon group still using discredited ‘gay cure’ therapy
SALT LAKE CITY — The author of a controversial 2001 study claiming that gays can change their sexual orientation has now disavowed his conclusions, but a Utah organization for Mormons plans to continue using so-called reparative therapy in its efforts to help or “cure” those with same-sex attraction.
David Pruden, executive director of Salt Lake City-based Evergreen International, is sticking with the study’s initial conclusions — even though the author, Robert L. Spitzer, is backing away from them. Pruden told The Salt Lake Tribune the group has no plans to remove Spitzer’s initial research from its website.
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