Is Potch still trying to pray the gay away?
In this in-depth feature, Janlu Fourie sits down with a theologian, with an unashamedly queer student, and with leaders of the apologetic Ratio Christi campus chapter – to chat about conversion.
When it became clear to leaders of the apologetics club Ratio Christi that Renier van Tonder* was not as straight or “holy” as they thought, they insisted that ‘reparative therapy’ – another word for conversion therapy in fundamentalist circles – can heal a queer person.
By the age of 17, Van Tonder had already been subjected to two rounds of unsuccessf…
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