10 lugl 1964 anni - Continuing Conversion Therapy; Secret Programs; Marriage will Cure [Part 13]

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The Cure: Self Mastery [over homosexuality]
The Vehicle: The Church
The Medication: The Gospel
The Treatment: Constructive activity so full of good works there is no time nor thought for evil.

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In 1964 the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve announced their efforts to secretly facilitate a reparative therapy program hidden from the public view of the Church and undisclosed to the local leaders of homosexual men and women in their congregations.

The program included protocol to spy on suspected gay church members, the employment of a private investigator to root-out homosexual Latter-day Saints, and conspiring with local police departments to find cases of homosexuality in Utah. This clandestine church committee also used the personal bishop and stake president interviews to disclose known homosexuals.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released the details of this program to the Seminary and Institute teachers at a BYU Devotional in 1964 after word spread that the church was using the L.D.S. Psychiatrists (LDS Family Services) to engage conversion/reparative programs.

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“We know such a disease [homosexuality] is curable. Men have come dejected, discouraged, embarrassed, near terrified and have gone out later full of confidence and faith in themselves, with self-respect again, the confidence of their families, their home ties strengthened, and ready to manfully take their part in society and even in the Church on an approved cured basis."

-Spencer W. Kimball
Apostle, Quorum of the Twelve, July 10, 1964, "A Counseling Problem in the Church"

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