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NJ governor signs ban on gay conversion therapy
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| 19 Aug 13
| Associated Press
Posted on 08/19/2013 12:34:34 PM PDT by xzins
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To: ek_hornbeck
Everything I've read suggests that conversion therapy is quackery. Its so-called success stories are just homos who go back to being closet cases. That being said, there are plenty of quack therapies and alternative medicines that are perfectly legal, including blatant scientific frauds like homeopathy. Yet we don't see the governor of NJ outlawing homeopathy, which tells me that this isn't about legitimate medicine so much as pandering to political activism. I agree with both halves of what you say.
An added flaw is that, by banning conversion therapy only for people under 18, the law interferes with parents' rights to raise their children. The only similar law is in California, and it is being challenged in court on that basis.
To: Lurking Libertarian
An added flaw is that, by banning conversion therapy only for people under 18, the law interferes with parents' rights to raise their children. The only similar law is in California, and it is being challenged in court on that basis Indeed. Even though "conversion therapy" is basically quackery from a medical/psychiatric perspective, parents should have the right to take their children to quacks, except perhaps in life-threatening situations (I suppose a line should be drawn for those who would take their children to a faith healer when they're dying of sepsis that could be easily cured with antibiotics - the logic being that you can make yourself a martyr for your beliefs, but don't make your kid one).
To: xzins
So is pedophilia and the practice of bestiality genetic too?
How about toe sucking?
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