Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Thursday, May 05, 2005

PFOX Files Frivolous Lawsuit To Get Ex-Gays Into Classrooms

(Richard Cohen)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 5, 2005

AUTHOR ADMONISHES EX-GAY GROUP FOR FILING FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND SEX ED PROGRAM

PFOX'S Professionally Disgraced President Richard Cohen Has No Business Dictating Sex Education Content In Maryland

NEW YORK - Wayne Besen, author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, called on Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays to drop a frivolous lawsuit they filed on Tuesday against the Montgomery County Maryland Board of Education and its superintendent Jerry Weast. The obstructionist legal maneuver is an attempt to scuttle the county's plan to enact a new sex education program that provides gay students positive, healthy messages and accurate information.

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays is upset because they want "ex-gays" to be included in the curriculum. They are also angry because the program lists affirming religious groups that can save a young gay person's life.

"PFOX's is the most despicable anti-gay group in the nation because its main thrust is to infiltrate schools and inject venom into the curriculum," said Wayne Besen, Author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. "PFOX knows that gay students with high self esteem and self-worth will reject the group's failed programs. So, this frivolous lawsuit is an attempt to put a right wing program into place that will tear down gay students and make them vulnerable to the appeals of charlatans such as PFOX."

Most disturbing, PFOX President Richard Cohen was "permanently expelled" from the American Counseling Association in 2003 for serious ethics violations. The ACA document can be viewed here.

Sadly, Cohen doesn't freely advertise his professional failure on his various promotional materials and leads people to believe he is a counselor in good standing.

"It seems that before PFOX tells schools how to operate, it should clean up its own messy house of mendacity," said Besen. "Certainly no decent, loving parent would want Richard Cohen dictating what their children are learning and what belongs in a school's curriculum."

10 Comments:

You got it right. Not only should the ex-gay movement clean up their own house they shouldn't destroy the lives of those who still have a chance to accept themselves by hoisting their own self-hatred upon the innocent. PFOX preys on the weak and the insecure - not to help them but to do permanent damage to them.
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