A Big Christian Victory: 'Gay Conversn Therapy' Ban Shelved California | Voice

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• SUPREME COURT TURNS AWAY CHALLENGE TO CALIFORNIA BAN ON ‘GAY NVERSN’ THERAPY
• CALIFORNIA BANS GAY "NVERSN" THERAPY FOR MORS
• NEW YORK CY IS ENDG A BAN ON GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. HERE’S WHY.
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS CALIFORNIA’S BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• SUPREME COURT DECL CASE CONTTG BAN ON GAY ‘CONVERSN THERAPY’
• CALIFORNIA BE FIRST STATE TO BAN GAY TEEN 'NVERSN' THERAPY
• CA. BANS THERAPY MEANT TO TURN GAY KIDS STRAIGHT
• A BIG CHRISTIAN VICTORY: 'GAY CONVERSN THERAPY' BAN SHELVED CALIFORNIA

SUPREME COURT TURNS AWAY CHALLENGE TO CALIFORNIA BAN ON ‘GAY NVERSN’ THERAPY

The Supreme Court has refed to overturn a ban on “gay nversn” therapy, and Democratic lawmakers recently troduced a bill that attempts to ban the practice at the natnal level — both legal mov that have advot cheerg. The Supreme Court cled to hear a se Monday challengg California’s ban on gay nversn therapy.

CALIFORNIA BANS GAY "NVERSN" THERAPY FOR MORS

The cisn after years of legal proceedgs agast California’s 2012 law, which outlawed state-licensed medil profsnals om performg “gay nversn” therapy to change a mor’s sexual orientatn. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn pletely removed homosexualy as an illns om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual 1987, but no bills explicly banng the practice were troduced until 2012. SACRAMENTO (Rters) - Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill banng a ntroversial therapy that aims to reverse homosexualy mors, his office announced on Sunday, makg California the first state to ban a practice many say is psychologilly move marked a major victory for gay rights advot who say so-lled nversn therapy, also lled reparative therapy, has no medil basis bee homosexualy is not a said a short msage on Twter that he supported the bill bee “bans non-scientific ‘therapi’ that have driven young people to prsn and suici.

NEW YORK CY IS ENDG A BAN ON GAY CONVERSN THERAPY. HERE’S WHY.

“LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) youth will now be protected om a practice that has not only been bunked as junk science, but has been proven to have drastilly negative effects on their well-beg, ” Human Rights Campaign Print Chad Griff said a urged other stat to follow California’s said the psychiatrist who pneered the therapy, Dr. Robert Spzer, has sce renounced and has apologized to the gay and lbian muny. “As a young teen, the anti-gay practice of so-lled nversn therapy stroyed my life and tore apart my fay, ” wns Ryan Kendall told legislators.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Several openly gay legislators gave emotnal speech support of the measure, sharg how they were bullied bee of their sexual orientatn as major medil and mental health anizatns cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn have nounced the practice, supporters said. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Cy Council fears that if a feral lawsu challengg the ban were to reach the Supreme Court, the panel uld issue a lg that protected the Sanrs for The New York TimNearly two years ago, the New York Cy Council celebrated when passed a far-reachg ban on nversn therapy, a discreded practice to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr Thursday, Corey Johnson, the Council speaker, who is gay, said the Council would act swiftly to repeal the move is a gamb signed to ntralize a feral lawsu filed agast the cy by a nservative Christian legal anizatn; if the se were to be heard by the Supreme Court, advot for the L.

“I’m heartened that the Cy Council pulled back a statute that uld unrme efforts natnally to end nversn therapy bee might be viewed as overly broad, ” said State Senator Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, and the state’s only openly gay senator. Shurka, 31, who is gay, unrwent nversn therapy for five years, startg as a teenager growg up New York Cy.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS CALIFORNIA’S BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

*Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy. A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

SUPREME COURT DECL CASE CONTTG BAN ON GAY ‘CONVERSN THERAPY’

Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. “A lot of the practic that are volved are very harmful and stctive to children, like g electroshock therapy or aversn therapy, ” said Hosks, who is the first openly gay person of lor elected to the Michigan Legislature. Rearch on nversn therapy dit the practice n lead to harmful out for those who go through — a 2019 study published by the Williams Instute at the Universy of California, Los Angel, found non-transgenr lbian, gay or bisexual people who experienced nversn therapy were more likely to have suicidal iatn than those who have not.

Conversn therapy, also referred to as “reparative therapy” or “ex-gay therapy, ” are treatments that historilly have targeted the LGBT muny and claim to be able to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr ntroversial, the practice has been cried by dozens of mental health, medil and LGBT rights groups as harmful and misleadg. “It says is d if you treat someone for a ndn that don’t exist and there’s no medil ndn known as beg gay. ”Conversn therapy emerged as far back as the mid-19th century, when beg gay was viewed as “eher a crimal act or a medil problem, or both, ” acrdg to a 2009 report by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

In 1952, homosexualy was clud as a mental illns the first edn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (better known as the DSM), and a variety of approach to changg one’s sexual orientatn was therapists ed electric shock treatments or duced nsea, vomg or even paralysis when their patients had “same-sex erotic” thoughts. In 1965, Time magaze ran an article wh the headle “Homosexuals Can Be Cured.

CALIFORNIA BE FIRST STATE TO BAN GAY TEEN 'NVERSN' THERAPY

” In , profsor and psychiatrist Samuel Hadn claimed to have succsfully changed the sexual preferenc of gay mal who participated group psychotherapy.

”Dpe ristance om gay rights lears at the time, the typ of treatments persisted through the 1960s and 1970s. Meanwhile, psychiatric groups were reevaluatg the lerature, and  1973, homosexualy was removed as a disorr om the then, dozens of major mental health, medil and LGBT rights groups have publicly e out agast nversn therapy, om the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics to the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers. “There is no sgle mol bee this is not a science, but ’s all credibly harmful, ” said Xavier Persad, legislative unsel for the gay rights group.

As the only openly gay man the state legislature, Canlaria said he unrstands how “ighteng and strsful” the procs of g out n be, both for the dividual and the fay. Support for nversn therapy remas fueled by nservative Christian groups, and recent months, some the LGBT muny have qutned whether those groups would hold greater sway durg Donald Tmp’s Tuday, a group lled the Natnal Task Force for Therapy Equaly announced had filed a Feral Tra Commissn plat agast three groups that have lobbied for nversn therapy bans — cludg the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign and the Natnal Center for Lbian plat acced the three groups of mtg “mass d” and “actively distortg the scientific rearch by promotg the ‘Born Gay’ hoax, ” among other allegatns.

CA. BANS THERAPY MEANT TO TURN GAY KIDS STRAIGHT

“It’s shockg that the gay activists have actually been able to ceive six stat and several ci wh their psdoscientific claims of ‘harm’ to ban psychotherapy, ” Christopher Doyle, a -ordator for the task force, said a statement.

A BIG CHRISTIAN VICTORY: 'GAY CONVERSN THERAPY' BAN SHELVED CALIFORNIA

Earlier this year, Peter Sprigg of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group that supports nversn therapy, told ABC’s “20/20” that he felt nfint Vice Print Pence and other Republins would support the FRC fightg the “gay lobby.