California Assembly Committee Agrees That 'Ex-Gay' Therapy For Minors Should Be Banned
An Assembly Committee in California yesterday afternoon approved a proposed bill that will ban the use of "reparative therapy" — the so-called "gay cure" — on minors.
By a 5-2 vote, the California General Assembly’s Committee on Business, Professions And Consumer Protection approved the measure, which will now head to the full chamber. California's Senate last month approved a similar measure. And, as JMG points out, right-wingers are sweating it.
Ron Prentice, executive director of the California Family Council, gripe: "A licensed clinical social worker, a psychologist, a psychiatrist—no one who’s licensed to perform counseling would be permitted, by law if this bill passes, to help a child decrease their same-sex attraction issue."
Prentice conveniently fails to mention that all major medical associations agree that "ex-gay therapy" hurts more than it helps.
Something that stupid and preposterous should be "Banned" for everyone. Honestly!
Posted by: SONNIE | Jun 28, 2012 9:42:20 AM
The anti-gay Christian psychiatrist are electric shocking gay children to make them "straight", the truth is the anti-gay Christian psychiatrist are torturing these gay children and these Christian psychiatrist need to be arrested and put in prison for crimes against children and humanity. Anybody who harms or tortures a child for any reason is a criminal and they should to be locked up.
Stop these mad men before they harm or kill another child.
Posted by: Mike | Jun 28, 2012 12:08:19 PM