Conversion Therapy Leader McKrae Game Comes Out As Gay

(New York Post) Tamar Lapin September 3 2019 4:50pm The founder of one of the nations largest conversion therapy programs has announced that hes gay and disavowed the harmful" practice. McKrae Game who led the faith-based conversion therapy group Hope for Wholeness in South Carolina for nearly two decades came out of the closet this summer at 51 The Post and Courier reported Saturday. Conversion therapy is not just a lie but its very harmful" Game told paper. Because its false advertising." The revelation came two years after Game was abruptly fired from Hope for Wholeness. In the interview the former crusader called for the dissolution of conversion therapy groups. The widely discredited practice which is intended to suppress or change a persons sexuality through counseling or religion is currently banned in 18 states including New York. Game said he is trying to come to terms with the harm he inflicted through his program. I was a religious zealot that hurt people" he said. People said they attempted suicide over me and the things I said to them. People I know are in therapy because of me. Why would I want that to continue?" Game is still married to a woman Julie Game who he says knows he is gay. After coming out he said he readied himself for intense backlash. He still receives angry Facebook messages from people who say they were traumatized by his program. In a Facebook post last week he wrote a lengthy apology saying: I WAS WRONG! Please forgive me!" He told the paper he knows he will likely be apologizing for the rest of his life.