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Cheri DiNovo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Ontario New Democratic MPP Cheri DiNovo was apparently so taken aback to be talking to a reporter who questioned her tyrannical bill to prevent teenagers getting psychotherapy for same-sex feelings, she abruptly hung up. Media coverage of DiNovo’s “Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act” has been as soft as marshmallows melting over an open fire. So talking to a LifeSiteNews reporter was probably her first encounter with informed criticism. “What about a teenager who  wanted  treatment for same-sex attraction ?” I asked. “Would your bill prevent that?” “Absolutely,” responded DiNovo proudly. “Because it’s abusive. Every professional organization has acknowledged that it is, from the nurses, and doctors to psychiatrists and the psychologists.” “But those who do such therapy argue that her bill is a restriction on the freedom of choice and of conscience of teenagers who don’t want to have same-sex feelings...

Seal of the Senate of California (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A new bill that would hamstring therapy for unwanted homosexual attraction and label support for the effectiveness of such therapy “therapeutic deception” has passed its first hurdle in a California committee. While banning outright such therapy for minors regardless of consent, Senate Bill 1172, introduced by the openly homosexual Senator Ted Lieu and backed by Equality California, makes it an actionable offense for a mental health professional to conduct such therapy with a consensual client “by means of therapeutic deception.”  The offense can be brought to court by “a patient, former patient, or deceased former patient’s parent, child, or sibling,” with an eight-year statute of limitations for patients and five years for relatives. The bill  defines  “therapeutic deception” as “a representation by a psychotherapist that sexual orientation change efforts ... can or will reduce” homosexual conduct or de...