# Non religious gay conversion?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 26, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-religious-gay-conversion/519018 "2009-11-26T10:24:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-religious-gay-conversion/519018/4 "2009-11-26T11:40:53Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> There’s a simple reason for that. Who else would have any reason to (attempt to) “reprogram” someone? What non-religious organizations would have such a thing as their agenda?

Pretty much all of organized psychiatry prior to homosexuality’s removal from the DSM in the 1970s. Homosexuality is still viewed as aberrant behaviour by some nominally atheistic regimes, such as China’s, and so presumably you could find non-faith-based “treatment” there.

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