A prominent 'gay conversion therapist' has divorced his wife of 34 years and now identifies as gay

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• David Matheson, a Utah-based Mormon and prominent "gay conversion therapist," now identifies as gay.
• Matheson announced in a Facebook post that was divorcing his wife of 34 years.
• However, he said he was not renouncing his religious faith, or the entirety of his work as a conversion therapist.

A Utah-based Mormon who became a prominent advocate of the widely discredited gay "conversion therapy" says he now identifies as gay.

David Matheson, the creator of courses seeking to change a person's sexuality, revealed he could no longer stay in his marriage of 34 years and said it was "time for me to affirm myself as gay."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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