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When they asked for more details, she described in an email what had happened to her. She had contacted the Evangelical Alliance in 2009 to make a complaint about Rev Donald, the pastor who abused her. Soon after, Paterson approached i with evidence to support her belief that there can be no religious exemptions for conversion therapy. Lynas described “electric-shock treatment and corrective rape” as “clearly wrong” but argued that other forms of “suppressing or repressing sexuality” should be allowed if they do not involve “marriage between one man and one woman”.īoris Johnson responded, assuring the Evangelical Alliance that he takes “freedom of religion very seriously” and promising that he will “continue to allow adults to receive appropriate pastoral support… in the exploration of their sexual orientation or gender identity”. In March, Peter Lynas, head of the Evangelical Alliance – a body that represents over 3,500 churches in the UK, including the Lancing Tabernacle – wrote to the Prime Minister urging him not to impose a total ban as it would “place religious freedom in jeopardy”. But there was one particular incident in relation to the ban that propelled her to disclose everything. She has waived her right to anonymity because of what the British Government is about to launch: a consultation on its proposed ban on conversion therapy. It has taken decades for Paterson to summon the courage to speak publicly. Mathematical genius and codebreaker Alan Turing was forced to take hormone injections after his conviction for homosexuality. In the 1950s and 1960s, hormones were used to suppress the sex drive. There are several reports of gay men being subjected to it, too.
This practice was identified in South Africa in 2001 due to the high number of lesbians being raped in a supposed attempt to make them heterosexual. It forms part of the wider belief that people can be possessed by spirits, and that prayer, chanting and the laying on of hands, can release the evil spirits. These are used in religious settings, particularly within evangelical Christian churches. The patient is made to find the wound and “heal” it. The belief is that there is a deep wound from childhood, often either sexual abuse or parental neglect, that triggered gayness. Talking therapies to “cure” LGBT people began in the early 1970s. The idea behind this method, used from the 1940s to 1980s, is that if you inflict pain, such as from electric shocks, while exposing someone to same-sex erotica, it will retrain them to stop being sexually aroused by it. Little is known about the phenomenon taking place in Britain. When i approached the Government Equalities Office for a breakdown of figures or for more details, a spokesman declined, in case it breached confidentiality. Around 5 per cent said they had been offered conversion therapy, the umbrella term for various attempts to “treat” someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.Īmong these respondents, some had been correctively raped. In 2017, the British Government referred to it, when more than 100,000 LGBTQ+ people responded to its survey about life for sexual and gender minorities. Hindu and Buddhist figures condemn LGBT+ conversion therapy and call for ban ‘without delay’
The public, she says, need to understand what has been happening in secret for decades in this country. She sits today in a garden in north London and for several hours pushes herself back into her past, reliving in daylight what normally intrudes in nightmares.
Now 49, Paterson is in a secure relationship with a woman and works in a women’s refuge. “When I’d wake up and he was there,” she says – he would be standing by her bed – “that wasn’t… I didn’t consent. When that didn’t work, he began abusing her to try to “heal” her. At first, Donald sent her to a therapist to try to make her straight. For the next four years, says Paterson, she was under his control.
When Donald learned that the 19-year-old had become homeless, he invited her to live with him and his wife at the manse, the pastor’s residence near the church. So Donald knew of the sexual abuse that she had suffered as a child, she says, and knew how vulnerable she was – but that did not stop him. The kids were encouraged to share their troubles.