Gay nversn therapi: Relig lears ll for global ban | CNN

Contents:

• RELIG LEARS LL FOR GLOBAL BAN ON SO-LLED GAY NVERSN THERAPI
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
• SHOULD GAY NVERSN THERAPY BE BANNED?

RELIG LEARS LL FOR GLOBAL BAN ON SO-LLED GAY NVERSN THERAPI

Hundreds of relig lears have joed forc to ph for a global ban on gay nversn therapi, treatments that claim to be able to change a person’s sexual orientatn or inty.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

“For too long, relig teachgs have been mised – and are still beg mised – to e ep pa and offence to those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex, ” said Bay the prs release. (Image cred: <a href=''>Gay marriage</a> via Shutterstock).

19), New Jersey beme the send state, after California, to sign a ban on therapy that claims to nvert gay people to heterosexual. The California law is held up feral urts on first amendment other stat — Massachetts and New York — have troduced siar bans their state legislatur nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns.

Prr to the ban that was signed to law today, gay nversn therapy was already facg legal challenge New Jersey.

SHOULD GAY NVERSN THERAPY BE BANNED?

[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Two s challenged California's law banng nversn therapy for mors, which was signed to law September 2012.

[7 Absolutely Evil Medil Experiments]More recently, people who have been through nversn therapy report talk therapy that emphasiz psdoscientific theori, such as the ia that an overbearg mother and a distant father make a child gay. In an April 2012 say  The Amerin Prospect, wrer Gabriel Arana scrib his "ex-gay" therapy experience. His therapist blamed his parents for Arana's homosexualy, and urged him to distance himself om his female bt Lev, one of the men sug JONAH for ceptive practic, says he qu nversn therapy after his therapist had him strip down and touch himself to "rennect wh his masculy, " acrdg to the New York Tim.