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<description><![CDATA[Four gay men accused a New Jersey organization of fraud Tuesday for selling "conversion therapy" with false promises to make them straight.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15490480-ny-gays-accuse-nj-therapy-group-of-false-promises</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15490480-ny-gays-accuse-nj-therapy-group-of-false-promises</guid><category>us</category><category>new-jersey</category><category>us-news</category><category>conversion-therapy</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:16:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09c853f6-eefa-4cde-a37c-61e3821b8cf0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09c853f6-eefa-4cde-a37c-61e3821b8cf0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chaim Levin, left, talks with Christine Sun, right, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, as Michael Ferguson, background right, stands with his partner Seth Anderson, after a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Levin, of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. NY, and Ferguson, of Salt Lake City, who are gay, are accusing a New Jersey organization of selling &quot;conversion therapy&quot; services promising to make them straight. Instead, they told the news conference that they were subjected to humiliations, including having to strip naked, or taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e830bf1d-6d4c-43d6-b1db-1c5f63e1d264.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="294" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e830bf1d-6d4c-43d6-b1db-1c5f63e1d264.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christine Sun, right, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, confers with Michael Ferguson, second right, and his partner Seth Anderson, before a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Ferguson, of Salt Lake City, is one of four gay men accusing a New Jersey organization of selling &quot;conversion therapy&quot; services promising to make them straight. Instead, they told the news conference that they were subjected to humiliations, including having to strip naked, or taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers.  Sam Wolfe, staff attorney for the SPLC is at background center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2efa9cd9-6ba9-4733-9cb4-6338c247064e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="321" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2efa9cd9-6ba9-4733-9cb4-6338c247064e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chaim Levin, left, and Michael Ferguson,  right,  with his partner Seth Anderson, listen to a a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Levin, of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. NY, and Ferguson, of Salt Lake City, are two of four gay men accusing a New Jersey organization of selling &quot;conversion therapy&quot; services promising to make them straight. Instead, they told the news conference that they were subjected to humiliations, including having to strip naked, or taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>