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Maddow Takes on Ex Gay Movement

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In her continuing series "Uganda Be Kidding Me," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow
on Tuesday night interviewed Richard Cohen of the ex-gay group the
International Healing Center.
Maddow invited Cohen on her program
because, as she reported, the IHF sent a staffer to Uganda to speak to
parliament about its ex-gay work and to speak at a conference organized
by the man behind a proposed bill that calls for the execution of gay
people in Uganda. Since the IHF visit, Ugandan politicians have been
using the group's work, and Cohen's book Coming Out Straight,
to support their "Kill the Gays" bill.
As you might imagine, Maddow tore
Cohen to pieces with her intelligent, scientifically based, and
impassioned arguments.
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