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Core Issues, a Christian initiative that encourages homosexuals to heal their ‘sexual brokenness’ through prayer and therapy is planning a ‘Leaving Homosexuality Celebration’ in Northern Ireland. FIONOLA MEREDITHwrites...

DISGRACED POLITICIAN Iris Robinson caused controversy in 2008 when she offered to put gay people in touch with a “very lovely psychiatrist”, with a Christian background, who could change an individual’s orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. The psychiatrist in question was subsequently revealed to be Dr Paul Miller, who worked for Robinson when she was chair of the Health Committee at Stormont. It was the first public sign of the growing ex-gay movement in Ireland where, through a combination of prayer and therapy, unhappy homosexuals are encouraged to heal their “sexual brokenness”.