The Toledo Prosecutor’s Office investigates ‘Courage International’ for promoting conversion therapies for LGTBI people

The Toledo Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the ‘Courage International’ movement, which promotes conversion therapies for people from the LGTBI community. This is how he has advanced it the medium Digital Religionl, which explains that the Public Prosecutor’s Office is criminally investigating the movement and also the Archbishopric of Toledo for alleged crimes against the dignity of a protected group, as well as illicit association to discriminate.

The investigation begins from a complaint from the ‘No es Terapia’ association, more than two years ago. The ‘Courage International’ movement was in the news in recent days, due to a talk that was going to be given in Cuenca and that was canceled due to social rejection. ‘No es Terapia’ recently denounced the practice of conversion therapies in several Spanish dioceses, including that of Guadalajara.

The association highlights that this movement “promotes and perpetrates conversion therapies based on chastity and the understanding of homosexuality as an addiction that must be controlled and canceled through techniques similar to the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

The organization has explained that they first filed a complaint, before the Ministry of Equality of Castilla-La Mancha, against Courage International, against the Archbishopric of Toledo, against the Family and Life Delegation of said Archbishopric, and also against the Archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Cerro Chaves; also against members of ‘Courage International’.

Specifically, the complaint was for the “realization, dissemination or promotion of methods, programs, therapies or pseudotherapies of aversion, conversion or counterconditioning intended to modify sexual orientation, sexual identity, sexual development or gender expression.”

From ‘No es Terapia’ they regret that in “view of the absence of any communication”, the association decided to promote an impulse letter, but they again received a “response” in the form of silence. “From the Ministry of Equality we were informed, by telephone, that the Government of Castilla La Mancha had no interest nor was it going to initiate any sanctioning proceedings under Law 5/2022,” they state.

That is why the association decided to file a complaint with the Hate Crimes section of the Toledo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office. From ‘No es Terapia’ they explain that the ‘Courage International’ movement understands that “homosexual attractions […] they go against the proper order of wanting and acting that has been inherited in our human nature” and that “there is scientific and empirical evidence that the homosexual condition is neither fixed nor permanent.”

They also highlight that on their website they talk about the need for gay people to have “access to Catholic therapists and priests,” while “defending the referral of persistent homosexuals to clinical therapists – with the same vision of homosexuality – as well as such as the prevention of homosexuality in minors.”

The Hate Crimes section of the Toledo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has decided to initiate criminal investigation proceedings, according to the ‘No es Terapia’ association, which has communicated that “we hope that you agree to take public action against all those reported by the hate crime commission.” a crime against the dignity of a protected group (art. 510.2.a) of the CP) and for a crime of illicit association to discriminate (art. 515.4º of the CP).”

The association has also regretted the “passivity of the Government of the Community Board of Castilla La Mancha, which has had more than two years to sanction these events and has done nothing.”

From the counseling they will be “very attentive”

The Minister of Equality of Castilla-La Mancha, Sara Simón, has stated that conversion therapies for LGTBI people have no “legal or moral fit”, and has assured that the regional Government will be very attentive to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office for if “he has to act”.

Simón has highlighted that the regional government has been making “timely inquiries” and will be “very attentive” to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office. Furthermore, he added that “if there is any reason for the Government of Castilla-La Mancha to act, of course it will do so without any doubt.”

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