The weird thing is the title of the article has zero relation to the content of the article. That happens, sometimes, if you have an idiot of a sub-editor.
TSCC offered to provide me this support many years ago when I was an 18 year old kid away from home for the first time at school. I was struggling with my sexuality, scared and alone. My biggest mistake was confessing to my "Bishop" who I assumed loved and cared for me.
They indeed offered to hook me up to electrodes, drug me and flash pictures on a screen of naked women, then naked men, naked women, naked men.....when there was penis on the screen you get shocked, vagina - the electricity goes off. This is the aversion therapy that my loving "leaders" at RICKS prescribed for me (as they threw me out of school for being gay).
Wow. What a desperate attempt to make themselves sound important. What an ugly condescending term.
What about the MORMON-HUMAN DECENCY incongruence? What about that one?
What about the incongruence of the Mormons making their gay youth feel like taking their lives? Is that part of their "Plan of Happiness?" Is that the congruence they are after?
Evergreen ruined the social life (and possibly physical and mental health) of a very good friend of mine. I can hardly think about the damage they've done to him and so many others.
I'm so very glad I never even knew about it before I came out as a gay man.
Evergreen was a "support group" in the sense that it unintentionally functioned as a speed-dating service for gays.
In that sense, Evergreen did some good -- albeit against their will.
Irony. Someone mentioned on one of the other threads that many gay men met their significant other on Evergreen weekend retreats. That's the kind of history I like.
That is what makes me glad I never came out before I left the church. I am sure my parents and bishop would have sent me to one of these "support groups" if I had come out as a teenager.