Human rights activist Francisco “El Jimagua” Cartagena Méndez said he had received a formal invitation from Pastor Wanda Rolón to undergo homosexuality conversion therapy as well as to be part of the La Senda Antigua church in Toa Alta.
“In 2013, after several insistences, I agreed to meet with Mrs. Wanda Rolón in her church office. According to her, the masses were moving at that time (due to several protests I organized against the SuperXclusive program and the fundamentalist sector in the country), which is why she wanted me to be a certain leader in her church, but first I had to be subjected to a therapy of “conversion of my homosexuality”, El Jimagua expressed on his social network on Facebook.
“I was very upset, I assured her that there was nothing to change in my person and I questioned how these therapies worked, which she kept quiet about. After an hour and a half of meeting, Wanda Rolón told me said she knew two could love each other, but she said and I quote “don’t make it public to me.” I also asked her if she doesn’t feel sadness in her heart, knowing that there are gay teenagers who commit suicide because of people like her, who constantly judge us, he also kept quiet, “said Francisco El Jimagua, who understands that the expressions made by the pastor were a “total manifestation of ecclesiastical hypocrisy.”
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Recently, the Puerto Rican Senate began a series of public hearings with more than 21 depositors on Bill 184, which seeks to protect minors by banning the “practice of conversion therapy,” a series of practices that seek to change sexual orientation and that Pan American The Health Organization (PAHO) described it as ineffective and classified as torture.
On Saturday, June 1, 2013, Francisco “El Jimagua” Cartagena Méndez staged a peaceful protest in front of the churchyard of Pastor Wanda Rolón against his alleged religious fundamentalism, attended by only 12 people and nicknamed the “Apostles of Equity.”