Timothy S. Rodriguez

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Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Conversion Therapy · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

They want to make sure that people are living in alignment with God's word.

And so anything that turns a gay person straight is widely accepted.

I would say social media is flooded with these stories.

And there are groups that are putting out content, but there's also just individuals.

There's people who have had these radical transformational experiences who are talking about how they used to be gay and how now they're straight and

There's detransition stories.

And to me, it's really scary because I started in conversion therapy in 2001.

So we didn't have the internet.

We didn't have social media.

I had to like dig and find the books and the resources and literally pick up a phone and call someone to like say, where should I go?

Where today it's as accessible as our social media feeds.

And it's scary because it's dehumanizing.

It is terrifying.

painful like it totally erodes a person's soul and yet it's so widely accepted as like the path of what it means to deny yourself to follow christ and so it's more pervasive now than it ever used to be and a lot of people don't realize that they think that it's a thing of the past that it doesn't happen anymore and i think that's the thing that makes me so scared of it now and also why i wanted to write my book to get my story out there to be like it is a clear and present danger

I would say that by and large, there was like in the 1950s and 1960s, you know, McCarthy era, that's when all of these conversion practices first came into play.

And so that's when the psychological community is like, well, maybe we can change a person's sexual orientation.

They got rid of all of that stuff when they removed homosexuality from the DSM.

So the larger non-religious community acknowledged that this does not work.

It causes harm.

It is not possible for a person to change their sexual orientation.

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