Ann Widdecombe Defends Comments She Made About “Curing” Homosexuality
Controversial Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe has defended an article she wrote in 2012 in which she said “unhappy homosexuals” were being denied the chance to “become heterosexual.”
When asked about this article, she said to Sky News that she “also pointed out there was a time when we thought it was quite impossible for men to become women and vice versa.
“And the fact we now think it’s quite impossible for people to switch sexuality doesn’t mean science may not yet produce an answer at some stage.
“I’ve never claimed that such science already exists… I’ve merely said that if you simply rule out the possibility of it, you’re denying people confused about their sexuality the chance [to change it].”
When asked if conversion therapy would feature at all in the Brexit Party’s policies, she said: “I do not imagine for one moment that the Brexit Party will be putting forward a policy on gay sex changes in its manifesto.
“You’re just looking for things that do not determine people’s votes.”
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