Dang I wish… You know what I wish.

#BringOnThe990

Your experience illustrates the key problems with a private, for-profit organization trying to play that role. I guess the follow-up question would be, what organization, if any, is the legitimate or at least functional version of what the AACC seemed at first to be to you and others? There are many places where a profit motive is entirely inappropriate and counter-productive. This seems to be one of them.

I joined to meet others doing the same thing. I also wanted to hear established people and get continuing education credits. I also presented programs at conferences which was a resume builder and a way to test ideas and promote my work. AACC simulates a professional association but there isn’t accountability or meaningful participation in governance. The priorities are those which make money for Tim Clinton. When I realized this and started to see the effects of this, I pulled back. My last effort was the submission of a program proposal which would have presented the damage done by reparative therapy. I submitted it according to the guidelines but I never received a acknowledgment or a reply or a rejection from AACC. Clearly, AACC didn’t like it but even as a member I had no recourse. In any other organization, I would have been able to appeal.

So, he’s been taking in almost a million a year, on top of whatever the for-profit brings in. Covers the cost of those trips to DC, I expect. But…I can’t help but wonder how he spent the money before Trump started inviting him to DC? I suppose there are always “needs.”

Poor buddy, here’s a sympathy “^”

I tried bring this to the attention of the AACC at the time, but really got nowhere. I have no way of knowing if they were intentionally turning a blind eye to this practice, knowing the false benefit it implied, or if it was all the evangelist’s particular form of fraud. I do know they did nothing in that instance but tell me a membership was $50 IIRC – this was long ago, perhaps the mid-2000s. What bothered me is that the evangelist in question was using this association as part of his bonafides to support counseling activity, implying some sort of clinical training.

I’m curious as to what exactly the benefit is supposed to be to members. Obviously there is a substantial financial benefit to Clinton and his associates (family), but what would a genuine professional get from this? For what reason did you join, Warren? I’m sure there is some benefit they claim or provide (or did provide at one time?), but it seems credibility is lacking and that would pretty much wash any legitimate benefit as I see it.