AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
August 13, 2015
Kate Aubusson
Journalist
A US clinical psychologist who practised therapies aimed at curing homosexuality has been billed as a star speaker at an Australian event hosted by a Jewish advocacy group for child sexual abuse victims.
Dr Norman Goldwasser, who applied conversion or reparative therapies to treat same-sex attraction, is the keynote speaker at Tzedek Australia’s Melbourne education forum in September.
Several survivors of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community have condemned Dr Goldwasser’s involvement, including the founder and former chief executive of Tzedek.
Several Tzedek board members have threatened to resign if the clinical psychologist attends the event.
Dr Goldwasser has recently disassociated himself from conversion therapy and the US-based group JONAH, which claimed it could cure homosexuality.
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