McKrae Game led the Hope for Wholeness religious organization for almost twenty years but now admits that its therapies are false and very harmful
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When 20 years ago McKrae Game founded a "homosexual conversion" therapy, I was really convinced that people could change their sexuality through "counseling" and religion. Now he claims to have realized how harmful and harmful it was for many people and not only asked to end this type of program, but also decided to leave the closet.
At 51, this man from South Carolina, married and with two children , has wanted to step forward and publicly admit that he is homosexual, a decision he made after he was expelled from the Hope for Wholeness religious organization, the same that founded in 1999 and that today continues to offer therapies to "discover the way out of homosexuality."
"I was a religious fanatic that hurt people. I know of people who tried to commit suicide because of me, I know there are people who are going to therapy because of the things I was telling them. How would I want to continue going on?" McKrae Game lamented in an interview with the local newspaper The Post and Courier . "Conversion therapies are not only false, I am also very harmful, " he admitted.
An estimated 700,000 people have gone through these self-styled homosexual conversion therapies in the United States, according to a study published last year by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Some programs that have been condemned by the main medical associations and that are now banned in 18 states of the country.
"There are still many people who still believe they have a problem or continue to think that leaving the closet is a mistake. This harmful cycle of shame and self-rejection has to come to an end. It is literally killing people. Learn to love yourself, learn to love yourself, learn to love yourself and others, "Game said in a message he shared last week on his social networks.
Hope for Wholeness currently has a presence in 15 states of the country where the therapies developed by McKrae Game are taught, according to which the attraction for same-sex people is a "multicausal development disorder." It is not clear how many people go through their centers a year, but he estimates there can be thousands. "I created all this and we have damaged generations of people," he added.
He is not the only one who regrets his past and decides to step forward. There were already other promoters of this type of therapy who decided to leave the closet, such as Alan Chambers, who after many years curing gays and lesbians through Exodus International, one of the largest religious groups in the country, in 2013 closed his organization after admitting what is gay.
In the case of Game, he says he has had the "understanding" of his wife but acknowledges that he has become a non grata person for the Christian community in his city. "And surprisingly the people of the LGBT community have been especially kind. They tell me they like me for what I am now, not for what I was, and I just hope they keep giving me the opportunity to speak to apologize," he concluded.
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