This week California passed a law banning so-called 'reparative therapy', the first law of its kind in the world. The goal of reparative therapy is to turn gay and lesbian people straight. It has done immeasurable harm to queers who have undergone the therapy; often they have committed suicide.
The psychiatrist who first published articles saying that sexual orientation could be changed by therapy has since publicly renounced that position and said that he was mistaken, and apologized for the harm he has done.
But today a Christian group has filed suit to overturn the California law, saying that banning reparative therapy breaches the constitutional right to freedom of speech.
The psychiatrist who first published articles saying that sexual orientation could be changed by therapy has since publicly renounced that position and said that he was mistaken, and apologized for the harm he has done.
But today a Christian group has filed suit to overturn the California law, saying that banning reparative therapy breaches the constitutional right to freedom of speech.
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