GOP Congressional candidate runs a conversion therapy organization

Republican Leon Benjamin, a candidate for U.S. House in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District, runs a conversion therapy organization that purports to save LGBTQ+ people from “homosexual and lesbian living.” That district is undergoing a special election because the winning candidate from November’s general election passed away several weeks after the election.

In a public April 2017 Facebook post, Benjamin wrote that he had established a ministry called “Escape Hall (Escape from Homosexual and Lesbian Living).”

“Now that we have Transgenders, that is just another form of homosexuality or lesbianism as its roots,” Benjamin wrote. “It’s time for the Church to be the place of deliverance for any who would desire a change and to enter into the Kingdom of God: fornication, adultery, idolatry and witchcraft are genderless- let’s go after the root and manifest the Sons of God! Amen! #ESCHALL #DeliveranceisHere”

Conversion or reparative therapy is a widely debunked and pseudoscientific form of psychological torture that purports to…

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