To both points: this thing is done to victims (in this case gay Mormons & family) by people with great emotional leverage over them—friends, family, clerics—and not just random disapproving strangers. Have your family ever guilt-tripped you? If it did, you’d surely agree that it’s emotional torture, when people you care about are pulling at your heartstrings until you “change”.
Would you mind explaining why helping people who want to change their sexual orientation is “torture”?
I advise,
you manipulate.
Seriously, I don’t see what the word “manipulate” is doing in that sentence besides sneaking in connotations.
To both points: this thing is done to victims (in this case gay Mormons & family) by people with great emotional leverage over them—friends, family, clerics—and not just random disapproving strangers. Have your family ever guilt-tripped you? If it did, you’d surely agree that it’s emotional torture, when people you care about are pulling at your heartstrings until you “change”.