LGBTQ NATION – Group demands dismissal of ex-gay therapist from Air Force Academy staff

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• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an organization that advocates for the separation of church and state in the U.S. Armed Forces, is demanding that the U.S. Air Force Academy terminate the employment of a former conversion therapy counselor and long-time proponent of the ex-gay movement.The Albuquerque-based MRFF on Tuesday sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Eric Fanning, to express its opposition to the continued employment of Dr. Mike Rosebush, who once served as a director for the now-defunct Exodus International, once the nation’s oldest and largest Christian ministry devoted to performing controversial gay-to-straight “reparative therapy.”

  Rosebush is a former vice-president of Focus on the Family, one of the foremost anti-LGBT organizations in the country, has been a clinical member of NARTH (The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality), and claims that he himself has been “cured” of homosexuality.

  In 2009, he co-authored of the handbook “Therapy for Unwanted Homosexual Attractions,” of which he collaborated with discredited researcher George Rekers, who in 2010 was caught vacationing with a male escort he met on RentBoy.com, and NARTH founder Joseph Nicolosi.

  “Rosebush has devoted his entire professional career to the bullying and harassment of the LGBTQ community, carried out under the highly dubious guise of ‘curing homosexuality,’ a sexual orientation that he likens to ‘addiction’ and disease,” said Michael L. Weinstein, Founder and President of the MRFF, in his letter to Fanning.

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