NPR's Monday gay conversion story on Peterson Toscano and Rich Wyler prompts a tempest — and an intervention by the network's Ombudsman

Rich Tyler,
Mormon, ex-gay

Monday's NPR report on conversion "therapy" by Alex Spiegel, a "veteran health reporter who has reported often on sexuality...with her editor, Anne Gudenkauf, the senior supervising editor on the science desk" prompted both a listener furor and a web follow-up by NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos to sweet-talk outraged listeners who objected to what they considered a false equivalence between professionals who do and don't believe in "repairative therapy."

Truth Wins Out had a lot to say about the piece, including this:

...NPR failed to report on the controversy surrounding Wyler’s organization and its woodsy Journey into Manhood (JIM) weekend. Last year, Truth Wins Out uncovered that two young men counseled by Alan Downing,  JIM’s senior reorientation coach, were told to strip in front of a mirror and touch their genitals. While this did not happen at Wyler’s program, it does call into question PCC’s judgment in hiring counselors and its utilization of “touch therapy” to allegedly heal “homo-emotional wounds.”