{"id":506255,"date":"2012-04-16T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/thomas-peters\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:54","slug":"thomas-peters","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/thomas-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Insisted that Jesus calls<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanPapist\/status\/520212747012030464\"> for gay people\u2019s \u201cconversion<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014A supporter of so-called \u201cex-gay\u201d therapy, Peters has claimed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodasyou.org\/.a\/6a00d8341c503453ef014e8c098ccb970d-pi\"> \u201cchange happens\u201d but the mainstream media just doesn\u2019t talk about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Has compared being gay to alcoholism, backing a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130120055942\/http:\/www.catholicvote.org\/discuss\/index.php?p=13081\">12-step 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