I struggle more with wanting to eat sugary foods, or do I want to exercise. “I’m not white-knuckling it,” Johnston said. Years of therapy from licensed counselors brought him “out of homosexualty,” he said. Jeff Johnston, now an issues analyst for the organization, explored same-sex relationships in his mid-20s but was in “tremendous conflict” with his faith. Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Feb. His sisters were off at college, and Shurka avoided talking to his mother, an arrangement that caused conflict in his parents’ marriage. He was told to spend as little time as possible with them for three years.
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Shurka had a series of therapists, including one who said he was too close to his mother and three older sisters. It would have been different if my father told me he loved me and everything was going to be OK.” “He told me how horrible my life would be. “When I saw my father was so hopeful, a part of me believed it and thought I could really change, that I could be accepted and loved by everyone,” said Shurka, now 30. “He told me he would love me no matter what and he would support me.”īut, as Shurka’s father searched for a counselor for his son, a licensed therapist told him that since Shurka had not yet experienced intercourse, there was a chance to “save him” from homosexuality. “He was really loving in the moment,” Shurka recalled. Shurka, who grew up on Long Island, New York, came out to his father when he was 16. He later co-founded an organization called Born Perfect that focuses on banning the therapy. Mathew Shurka went to conversion therapy for five years and was told not to spend time with his mom or sisters. The legislation targets “licensed, certified or registered” mental health providers and does not address religious counseling from a pastor or minister. House Bill 1129 would prohibit a licensed psychiatrist or mental health counselor from providing therapy to minors meant to “change an individual’s sexual orientation” or eliminate “sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.” Advertising such therapy would become a “deceptive trade practice” under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. (Kathryn Scott, Special to The Colorado Sun) Now that Democrats control the House, Senate and governor’s office, the measure has a better chance of becoming law. The proposal marks Democrats’ fifth attempt to pass a ban on conversion therapy, which in prior years was tossed out by a Republican-controlled committee. The measure is expected to draw conservative backlash similar to another bill under consideration at the Capitol this session - legislation that would prohibit public schools from teaching abstinence-only sex education. His testimony is proof of the divisiveness that remains on the emotional topic, even years after the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association declared it ineffective and harmful. Johnston plans to tell his story to Colorado lawmakers next week as he testifies, again, against a proposal to ban “conversion therapy” for minors. I’m not in suppression all the time or repressing.” Any residual struggles with same-sex attraction, he said, are weaker than his urges to eat unhealthy snacks.
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Johnston, 58, has been married for 25 years and has three sons.
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Years of therapy from licensed counselors brought him “out of homosexualty,” he said this week in an interview with The Colorado Sun. Johnston, now an issues analyst for Focus on the Family, explored same-sex relationships in his mid-20s but was in “tremendous conflict” with his faith.
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The problem, though, was that he was attracted to men. So, his life’s plan was to marry a woman and raise a family. Jeff Johnston grew up in a conservative Christian home where he was taught that sex is reserved for a man and his wife.