Minority Azerbaijan - Polish bishops' plan "to cure" LGBTQ+ people

Polish bishops want to force queer people into conversion therapy camps to ‘regain their natural sexual orientation’. They are calling for the opening of conversion therapy “clinics” to make LGBT+ people “regain their natural sexual orientation”.

Following the three-day Polish Episcopal Conference (KEP), bishops in Poland produced a 27-page document outlining their stance on LGBT+ issues. Despite condemning violence against the LGBT+ community, the bishops promoted the idea of conversion therapy camps for the queer community in Poland.

The document states: “In view of the challenges created by gender ideology and LGBT+ movements, and especially bearing in mind the difficulties, suffering and spiritual wounds experienced by these people, it is necessary to create clinics (with the help of the church or within its structures) to help people regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation.

“These clinics also make sense when complete sexual transformation is too difficult, as they can still help psychosexuals to deal with significant challenges.”

The Polish bishops admitted that the idea of conversion therapy “counselling centres” was “clearly in contradiction” to scientific evidence, but still added that “testimonies” proved that “different sexuality wasn’t some kind irrevocable judgment or irretrievable coding, but a symptom of wounds on various levels of their personality”.