All the claims of those who claim to have been subjected to conversion therapy in the UK, recently, seem to boil down to complaints of agent provocateurs with journalistic projects planned in advance, who told priests and other church people, whilst working undercover, that they were struggling with homosexual temptations and asked their victims to pray for them. When the victims did as they’d been asked to do in good faith, taking the pretence of the agent provocateurs at face value, the agent provocateurs thought to themselves “bingo, gotcha” and went on to write the exposes they planned all along, of “so-called conversion therapy” being offered in the UK, albeit by *churches*, not psychotherapy practices. “So-called” by the agent provocateurs turned journalists that is, rather than by the priests and other victims of the sting, who wouldn’t have dreamt of referring to their offering up of prayers requested as the offering of any sort of “therapy” at all.