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  • 2016-11-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Mike Pence: Gay Conversion Therapy Saved My Marriage (en)
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  • On 12 November 2016, the Nevada County Scooper web site published an article reporting on Vice President-elect Mike Pence's surprise announcement to Fox News that gay conversion therapy helped save his marriage by helping him to resist certain urges: There was no truth to this story. The site on which this story originated, the Nevada County Scooper, is a fake news site which we have highlighted for its bogus posts in the past. Besides failing to include any video of Pence's interview with Fox News, it also invented a fake college roommate for the Indiana governor who used stereotypical language to describe his younger self: The story did contain a grain of truth in quoting Pence's opposition to expanding anti-discrimination laws to include LGBTQ communities while he was in Congress. Pence has previously supported the idea of using federal funding to treat people seeking to change their sexual behavior, but he didn't state outright such funding should extend to electroshock therapy, which was part of anti-gay aversion therapy treatments until the American Psychological Association announced in 1973 that they would stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder. (en)
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