McKrae Game, one of America's largest conversion therapy advocates and founder of Hope For Wholeness, a conversion therapy-based ministry, now says that he is gay.
According to the Associated Press, South Carolina based, Game came out this summer, two years after being fired from the religious, Hope for Wholeness conversion therapy program. Mckrae is now trying to turn his life around and make amends with those who he hurt while pushing religious beliefs about homosexuality and conversion therapy.
According to the Post and Courier, in 2014, nine founders and leaders from various conversion programs across the country wrote a letter banning the practice.
“As former ex-gay leaders, having witnessed the incredible harm done to those who attempted to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, we join together in calling for a ban on conversion therapy,” they wrote in the letter. “It is our firm belief that it is much more productive to support, counsel, and mentor LGBTQ individuals to embrace who they are in order to live happy, well-adjusted lives.”
“Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” Game told The Post and Courier. “Because it’s false advertising.”