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California bans "gay cure" therapy

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Monday, December 3, 2012 04:48
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Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:23 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


It's about friggin' time, and I hope other states follow suit (eh, Frem?):
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Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that makes California the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy that's aimed at making gay teenagers straight.

Effective Jan. 1, mental health practitioners are prohibited from performing sexual orientation change efforts — known as reparative or conversion therapy — for anyone under 18.

The therapies "have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery," Brown said in a statement.

Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists and psychologists have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades. A number of mental health associations in California — including the state's Board of Behavorial Sciences, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the California Psychological Association — supported the legislation.

But some organizations and ministries continue to use counseling and prayer to try to help conflicted Christians rid themselves of unwanted homosexual inclinations. Gay rights activists have said the damage they inflict on individuals can be deep and lasting and can put youth at higher risk of depression and suicide.

"We're grateful to Gov. Brown for standing with California's children," the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. "LGBT youth will now be protected from a practice that has not only been debunked as junk science, but has been proven to have drastically negative effects on their well-being."

The group called on other states to follow California's lead on the issue.

Conservative religious groups and some Republicans have argued that banning conversion therapy would hinder parents' right to provide psychological care for children experiencing gender confusion.

The Encino, Calif.-based National Association for Research and Therapy on Homosexuality said in August that the bill was a case of "legislative overreach." They said Democratic state Senator Ted Lieu's claims of harm to children were based on politics, not research.More at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57523211/california-bans-gay-cure-
therapy/


When it comes to religious homophobes and parents who force their kids into this shit, I won't even get started... I just hope we see an end to it in my lifetime.

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Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:35 AM

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Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:39 AM

BYTEMITE


Good. Now if only they'd ban it here in Utah. There's a pretty big overlap with this gay cure stuff and "tough love" treatments for troubled teens.

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Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:54 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Score one for Moonbeam, yeah.
Bout damn time, way past it really, hopefully this'll add some weight to Millers push to end the Hellcamps by putting the brakes on some of their more outrageous abuses by making them answerable for the damage they do.

Step by step, we'll get there - it's inevitable, I am just impatient.
And with less screwed up generations following us, a saner society becomes possible.


-Frem

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Monday, December 3, 2012 4:48 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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And with less screwed up generations following us, a saner society becomes possible.

Amen...or at least I certainly HOPE so!

The (woman, I believe) who is behind this movement is in Washington lobbying for other states to do the same...I wish her all good luck!

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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