{"id":94972,"date":"2026-04-13T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94972"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:37:23","slug":"conversion-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/conversion-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you sent in similar <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> questions.&nbsp; The first in my pouch was from <strong>Harry <\/strong>in Chicago, who asked, \u201c<em>Who is that cute boy from that TV court show being sued by his father for the cost of conversion therapy?<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brace yourself \u2013 he\u2019s an actor!&nbsp; The incident in question took place on <strong><em>Equal Justice with Judge Eboni K. Williams<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; All the people on the show are actors, and not particularly good ones (ditto for the writers).&nbsp; And before you ask, Eboni ain\u2019t no judge \u2013 but she is a lawyer.&nbsp; The incident before the \u201cjudge\u201d concerns a father who sent his son to conversion therapy.&nbsp; The son stopped going, so dad is suing his son for the $6K bill.&nbsp; The son (called Michael Talbert in this dramatization) recounted the sessions.&nbsp; \u201cThey said that I was cursed, said that I was going to hell, and called all of us there monsters, that we were unworthy, and that we needed the program to fix ourselves.\u201d&nbsp; That\u2019s when Judge Eboni left the bench to go and hold Michael\u2019s hand \u2013 if this were <strong><em>Caso Cerrado<\/em><\/strong>, they\u2019d also be playing a beautiful song (and it would also be in Spanish).&nbsp; \u201cYoung man,\u201d said Judge Eboni, \u201cYou are not cursed.&nbsp; You are as loved and as worthy, Michael, as your father, your mother, and everyone else who gets the privilege to reside on this earth, young man.&nbsp; I don\u2019t care what your daddy says.&nbsp; I don\u2019t care what some stupid conversion therapy says, which is nothing but a bunch of hoopla and a scam and a money-grab for young, vulnerable men like yourself.&nbsp; I see you.&nbsp; You are valuable.&nbsp; And Michael \u2013 you are perfect.&nbsp; You are perfect in the eyes of God.\u201d&nbsp; Cut!&nbsp; Print it!&nbsp; Send that tape to the Emmy Nominating Committee!&nbsp; If you can\u2019t wait, you can watch every melodramatic&nbsp;moment on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m judging TV \u201cjudges\u201d, it\u2019s definitely time to end yet another column.&nbsp; You know what?&nbsp; I\u2019ve been <strong>David Geffen<\/strong>.&nbsp; <em>Ich bin ein Geffen<\/em>.&nbsp; I may not have beauty or riches to trade.&nbsp; But, damnit, I\u2019m Billy Masters and you can read me on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that won\u2019t ask for a prenup!&nbsp; If you have a question for me to ponder (or pounder), send it to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before Kate Jackson\u2019s bangs grow out.&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you sent in similar Ask Billy questions.&nbsp; The first in my pouch was from Harry in Chicago, who asked, \u201cWho is that cute boy from that TV court show being sued by his father for the cost of conversion therapy?\u201d Brace yourself \u2013 he\u2019s an actor!&nbsp; The incident in question took place on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94973,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94972\/revisions\/94973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}