Journey Canada Event Cancelled Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Concerns
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/08
The Canadian Press reported on a Saint John, New Brunswick retreat. It is a Christian retreat from a well-known controversial Christian group. It is known as Journey Canada. It was providing an intensive retreat.
It was going to be hosted at the Villa Madonna Retreat House owned by the Catholic Diocese of Saint John. Journey Canada works through the retreats to heal the “relationally and sexually broken.”
Some consider this “nothing more than conversion therapy The St. Thomas University Professor of Sociology, Erin Fredericks, stated, that the approach is reckless.
That is, it can lead to anxiety, self-harm, and PTSD. Following public groups’ concerns, the event was cancelled Wednesday afternoon by the diocese.
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