US Supreme Court Upholds California Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy

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Gay-Conversion Therapy Ban Survives as Supreme Court Rejects Appeal
Bloomberg News

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a California law that bans licensed therapists from working with children to change their sexual orientation from gay to straight, rejecting an appeal that said the measure violates religious rights.

The rebuff leaves intact a federal appeals court decision upholding California’s 2012 first-of-its-kind law. The measure prohibits the form of counseling known as “conversion therapy.”

The ban was challenged by three people, led by licensed therapist and minister Donald Welch, who said it interferes with their right to practice their religious beliefs.

Bad news for groups that want to torture gay kids.

 

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This is really great news for all gay and transgender kids in California! It's nothing but legal child abuse when it's allowed to happen.