and psychological associations say there s no evidence that it works and there s plenty of evidence in fact it can be hurtful and harmful. for days now congresswoman bachmann and her husband refused to answer questions about it. but today in minneapolis star tribune he defends the clinicses saying he and others do not deny they have tried to help homosexuals become heteroswals but it s not a specialty service and only at the client as request. will i address it? certainly. we ll talk about it. adding is it a remedy form that i typically would use? it is at the client s distropical depression. five years ago he flat out denied his counselling service engaged in reparative statement. the most he would say about it back then, if someone is interested in talking to us about their homosexuality we re open to talking about that. if someone comes in a homosexual and they want to stay homosexual i don t have a problem with that . he says reparative therapy is not a focus at bachman