Reporter To "Ex-Gay" Nutter: You're Gay As A Goose And Just Can't Admit It

British anti-gay group Christian Concern has posted the below BBC interview in which Buzzfeed UK reporter Patrick Strudwick confronts an "ex-gay" proponent, telling him that they'd met while Strudwick was undercover and he is clearly "as gay as a goose and just can't admit it."

RELATED: Five years ago I reported on Strudwick's undercover work in Britain's "ex-gay" network.

UK Reporter Patrick Strudwick Declares War On "Ex-Gay" Industry

UK-based reporter Patrick Strudwick, whose "ex-gay" undercover investigation was mentioned here last week, has now launched a campaign to expose and end the damaging tactics of the evil reparative therapy industry. Strudwick's group is called the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT). Facebook page here. Their first target will be an "ex-gay" conference in Northern Ireland, but that's just the beginning.

The work of SCOTT will therefore not stop at disrupting conferences. We want professional bodies such as the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy to add into their code of conduct specific stipulations condemning attempts to alter orientation (currently they have more general ones about not letting personal feelings about sexuality affect treatment). We will also continue to expose individual therapists and report them to their professional bodies. It won't be easy. Many operate using euphemisms that cloud what they're really doing. They also defend their techniques vehemently, claiming: "We offer choice! We only treat those who come looking for it!" It's like a Venus flytrap blaming the hungry insect that wanders into its gaping mouth. But we are determined to root them out however long it takes. This won't be a battle. It's war.

Hopefully Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out, who has pioneered this battle in America, can lend Strudwick his expertise.

The Ex-Gay Files

British investigative reporter Patrick Strudwick, an out gay man, went undercover in the UK's network of "ex-gay" outfits to see how they pretend to pray the gay away. Here's how just one of the "therapists" worked.

She begins her wound hunt by asking about my family. I tell her that I have a close relationship with my parents and that they always gave me huge amounts of love, so I didn't understand why Nicolosi says that homosexuality is caused by inadequate parenting. "Well, there was something happening within your family dynamics that led to your depression," she says. Lynne explains that people only identify as gay when they are already depressed. "There's a confusion, there's an anxiety, there's a lot of pain," she says. "Often the thought can be, 'Oh I'm confused about my sexuality so I must be gay'." She says that at the heart of homosexuality is a "deep isolation", which is, she says, "where God needs to be". "Did you have a difficult birth?" she asks. No, I say. Why? "It's just something I have noticed. Often [with homosexuality] it is quite traumatic, the baby was put into intensive care and because of the separation from the mother there can be that lack of attachment." She moves on. "Any Freemasonry in the family?" No, I say, again asking her to elaborate. "Because that often encourages it as well. It has a spiritual effect on males and it often comes out as SSA."

Read the entire article, it's a hoot.

RELATED: Last summer I reported about Ted Cox, a straight former Mormon reporter who also went undercover at an "ex-gay" retreat.