John Aravosis | America Blog | November 20, 2013
Rachel Maddow, at the top of her show last night, tackled the story we broke yesterday morning about the prestigious Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado hiring an “ex-gay,” who spent the last twenty years attempting to “cure” homosexuals, to oversee the academy’s mandatory program of “coaching” every cadet.
Dr. Mike Rosebush is a “heterosexual confidence” expert who has spent nearly the past two decades working at the religious right anti-gay activist groups Exodus International and Focus on the Family, and he’s affiliated with NARTH as well.
Here’s a blurb from a book of his on Amazon:
Dr. Rosebush’s Sanctification Coaching provides the groundbreaking methods that helped his clients achieve sexual purity, peace and heterosexual confidence. If you are a Christian tired of being distressed over your same-sex attractions, then Sanctification Coaching was written for you! ….
Dr. Rosebush is also a contributing author to The Handbook of Therapy for Unwanted Homosexual Tendencies: A Guide to Treatment. Dr. Rosebush has decades of success in counseling Christian men who struggle with same-sex attractions.
“Homoerotically-capable.” Is that like “handicapable”? You know, disabled?
Rosebush also set up his own private practice, called “Coaching Confidant,” to cure gay people by phone in the years immediately preceding being hired by the Air Force academy to help build “character” and “leadership” among malleable young cadets.
Filed under: News and Politics Tagged: Colorado, Colorado Springs, Exodus International, Focus on the Family, National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, Rachel Maddow, Rosebush, United States Air Force Academy
