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Founder of the International Healing Foundation
Unlicensed "Therapist"
—Advised beating a pillow and cuddling (or “touch therapy”) as ways to “cure” homosexuality.
—His testimony was used by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays in an amicus brief filed in defense of Proposition 8.
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