Former DUP minister told he ‘should be ashamed’ after post on ‘gay conversion’

Alliance Councilor Eóin Tennyson told the DUP politician he ‘should be ashamed of himself’ after posting about Becket Cook.

Mr McCausland, a former Minister for Social Development in the NI Assembly, shared on Facebook the story of Becket Cook who claims to have been a gay man in Hollywood working in the fashion industry until he ‘met Jesus’.

The article recounts his story of gay conversion.

Mr McCausland introduced the article stating: “A powerful testimony of a life changed by God and some important insights into the whole ‘gay movement’ from someone who has been there.”

However Cllr Tennyson, who is openly gay, was very upset at this post.

He said: “Shared without any regard for the devastating impact this ex-gay nonsense has on young LGBT+ people.

“Being gay is not a disease, it can’t be cured. ‘Gay conversion’ has been consistently discredited and denounced. It has absolutely no basis in scientific fact.

“It’s clear you’ve never been 11-years old, crying yourself to sleep at night praying to be ‘cured’ because you’ve internalised the nonsense spouted by bigots on homophobes in the public eye.

“You should be ashamed of yourself.”

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