California Bans Gay ‘Conversion’ Therapy for Minors

Mary Slosson of Reuters reports that California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill “banning a controversial therapy that aims to reverse homosexuality in minors.” Many in the LGBT community are calling this a major victory. Yet “[o]pponents said the bill encroached on the rights of parents to make choices for their children. They also said politicians should not regulate what they considered to be a matter for medical boards to decide,” Slosson writes.

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