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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Contact Air Force Leadership regarding Academy's hiring of "Reparative" Therapy activist to lead counseling program‏

Breaking News Alert from OutServe-SLDN
 
 
AmericaBlog editor John Aravosis broke a story today that the Air Force Academy has hired notorious “ex-gay” activist Dr. Mike Rosebush as the Chief of Character and Leadership Coaching for the Academy.
http://americablog.com/2013/11/air-force-academy-ex-gay-cure-advocate-overseeing-cadet-counseling.html
Rosebush has spent his entire professional career conducting reparative therapy to cure homosexuality.  The hiring of this career anti-gay activist demonstrates incredibly poor judgment by Academy officials and calls into question the command climate at the institution.
There is absolutely no legitimate justification for the hiring of a man whose entire professional career has been exclusively devoted to practices which have been condemned by EVERY legitimate association for mental health professionals.
1) The Air Force Inspector General should immediately conduct an investigation into this hiring action and the command climate within the Academy – especially for LGBT Cadets and staff.
2) The Secretary of the Air Force should immediately promulgate guidance to ensure that the discredited, pseudo-scientific, “reparative” therapy be prohibited by any Air Force Counselor and that all counseling of LGBT Airmen is conducted in accordance with the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients.
Please contact the Air Force today to ask for immediate action:  http://www.afoutreach.af.mil/main/contactus.asp or via to (703) 695-9664 (Tel) or (703) 693-9601 (Fax).

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