N Jersey Jews Sued By Gays Over Humiliating 'Therapy' Blaming Moms for Making Boys Homosexuals

Four gay men have said that a New Jersey City organization provided them with phony counseling sessions to 'cure' their homosexuality when they were teenagers. In a lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court, the men, and two of their mothers, contend the sales pitch and methods used by 'Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing' are fraudulent because homosexuality is not something that can be cured and the group's techniques don't work.

The young men said at a press conference that JONAH's counseling sessions were humiliating and involved nudity, pillow beating and physical and verbal assaults, the New York Daily News reports.

Chaim Levin, 23, of Brooklyn said his mother, Bella Levin, spent more than 10,000 dollars on his counseling over 18 months.

He said he was brought into a locked, mirrored room with a male counselor twice his age and told to strip.

"I felt it was an unsafe environment. I was naked with a man twice my age and he told me to touch myself," Levin said, adding: "I resolved never to go back . . . never to talk about it."

Benjamin Unger, 25, of Brooklyn said he was ordered to beat a pillow with a tennis racket and shout "Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!" in synchronization with each blow.

"I had to beat my mother up to heal from being gay," Unger said.

He said that JONAH counselors believe mothers are to blame if their sons are gay. Unger said he didn't talk to his mom for months after that, but they are on good terms now, the report added.

The young men said they also were repeatedly placed in situations where others in therapy sessions screamed humiliating words like "faggots" and "homos" at them in mock locker room and gym settings.

According to court papers, the conversion therapy used by JONAH has been discredited by the American Psychological Association and other professionals who contend homosexuality is normal, not to be cured, and that conversion therapy is dangerous because humiliation harms people.

Source-ANI