After Daily Show appearance, "ex-gay" shrink excommunicated from religious right

Richard Cohen was one of the, if not THE, leading religious right doctor espousing the pseudo-science that you can "cure" gays (the religious right has several factions of "ex-gay" promoters - one faction says you can pray away the gay, a second faction believes that you cure homosexuality by punching a pillow and screaming "Mommy, mommy, mommy!" repeatedly (seriously)). Cohen was the head of the "mommy, mommy, mommy!" school of thought, and just last year he was the president of the top (and only) ex-gay organization (which ironically has an executive director who's own kid is gay).

These kooks are the leaders of the religious right - they have ties to all the major religious right groups. They are the people who oppose equal civil rights for gays and lesbians. They are the people who now control the Republican party.

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