Posted on 08/19/2013 12:34:34 PM PDT by xzins
Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Monday barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight, making New Jersey the second state to ban so-called conversion therapy, along with California.
The bill passed both houses of the New Jersey Legislature with bipartisan support in June. Assemblyman Tim Eustace, who sponsored the bill and is openly gay, described the therapy as "an insidious form of child abuse."
In a note accompanying the bill, Christie said he believes people are born gay and that homosexuality is not a sin. That view is inconsistent with his Catholic faith, which teaches that homosexual acts are sins. - See more at: http://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/politics/nj-governor-signs-ban-on-gay-conversion-therapy#.UhJxpU7D8eE
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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.
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).
So is pedophilia and the practice of bestiality genetic too?
How about toe sucking?
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