"widely-discredited" = PC thugs used its less than 100% success rate as a rationalization for thundering against it and cowing the psychiatric community into compliance.
If a gay person WANTS to undergo therapy and is NOT COERCED to do it, why should there be a law banning the therapy?
I am asking this because NJ’s governor Chris Christie signed a law OUTLAWING reparative therapy for homosexuals.
But, but,but... it's settled science!
The gays' political coup against the psych community in 1972 will be recognized 200 years from now as a black day, a huge setback for the profession, in which American professionals endowed with complete freedom of speech allowed themselves to be rolled by a motivated cabal of inmates.