The London branch of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, MFM, is getting a bad press over its programme on homosexuality.
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A branch of the Pastor Daniel Olukoya’s church in Liverpool is offering a three-day fasting programme to wean homosexuals off their attraction to persons of the same sex.
Daily Mail of UK in its report, said a reporter of its posed as a gay and was invited to the church for a private counselling session with the church’s assistant pastor.
It said the Assistant Pastor, who identified himself as Brother Michael told the undercover that being gay is ‘biologically wrong’, and that by undergoing prayer therapy it could be corrected to ‘allow him to marry and have children.’
Brother Michael said that the reporter would have to ‘humble his soul’ by starving himself and not drinking water for 24 hours before taking part in a weekly prayer session.
The advice offered by the pastor without any physical or medical examinations is seen in the UK as conversion therapy, which earlier this year, Theresa May’s government was petitioned to make illegal – however the petition fell short of the 100,000 signatures needed to force a debate in parliament.
In response to the petition, signed by 33,000 people, the Department of Health claimed they had ‘already taken the necessary steps to prevent the practice of gay conversion therapy in the UK,’ the report said.
According to Wikepedia, Conversion therapy refers to the controversial and pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation using psychological or spiritual interventions.
The tabloid reports that Mental health professionals and LGBT campaigners slammed the church’s methods as ‘dangerous’ and damaging.
‘If a person doesn’t eat for 24 hours, while that wouldn’t lead to a significant deterioration in your brain function, you certainly wouldn’t be functioning at your normal rate of mental agility or acuity. It would be dangerous, for example, for them to drive.
‘I think it’s extremely concerning to be told to fast for three days. I don’t think it would be advisable for anybody to not have water for three days,’ it quoted Dr Louise Theodosiou, a consultant psychiatrist from the Royal College of Psychiatrists as saying.
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