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Author of controversial ‘ex-gay’ study: ‘I apologize’ to LGBT community

Earlier this month, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer fully recanted a controversial 2003 non-peer reviewed study that he published in the journal The Archives of Sexual Behavior, a study in which he posited that “highly motivated” LGBT people could reach their so-called “heterosexual potential” through counseling and prayer. In a piece…