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New York City to repeal ban on gay 'conversion therapy' amid legal battle

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The New York city council is planning to repeal a two-year-old ban on “gay conversion therapy” to avoid a costly uphill legal fight. The city’s openly gay Council Speaker Corey Johnson introduced a bill to repeal a measure passed in 2017 banning the sale of “services intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”  With a conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court makeup, Johnson doesn’t seem to want the law to be tested in the legal system. He vowed that the council would act quickly to repeal the law.  Obviously I didn’t want to repeal this,” Johnson was quoted as saying. “I don’t want to be someone who is giving in to these right-wing groups. But the Supreme Court has become conservative; the Second Circuit, which oversees New York, has become more conservative.” The city's ban is being challenged by the conservative religious freedom legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has won nine Supreme Court cases in the last seven years....

Maryland Prohibits Conversion Therapy for Gay Youth

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Maryland banned gay conversion therapy recently, a move that has been met with cheers of victory from homosexuals and LGBTQ members of the community who claim there is nothing wrong with them or that biology has nothing. to do with homosexuality. The gay ideology demands no other version and refuses to acknowledge any other viewpoint. Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan signed the Youth Mental Health Protection Act on Tuesday, according to NBC News , effectively banning the practice in Maryland. The move comes after the House passed the bill in a 95-27 vote. NO HELP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE INFLUENCED BY GAY IDEOLOGY Gay conversion therapy is defined as “psychiatric therapy aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation, based upon the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder requiring therapy,” according to the Medical Dictionary . The American Psychiatric Association condemns gay conversion therapy as unethical. Any biologist can quickly point to the structure of sexual organs, ...

Homosexuals can change

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Chris Delaney , head of Joseph's Coat Ministries, helps council people with same-sex attractions who want to change. Delaney, who was once gay, decided to change after years of being unhappy with his life. After 12 years of boyfriends and gay bars, Chris Delaney decided he was miserable as a homosexual and ready to change. "I realized I didn't even like that behavior. I so needed male affirmation," said the 38-year-old resident of Ringgold, Ga. "So I decided I was willing to give faith another chance. I told God, 'I've run my life for 12 years, and it's been a mess. I'm going to hand it back over to you.' " Fifteen years later, Mr. Delaney now proudly labels himself an "ex-gay," having undergone what he describes as a lengthy spiritual transformation in which he was sexually reoriented. Since 1996, he has ministered to hundreds of others through the nonprofit evangelical organization Joseph's Coat Ministries. Mr. Delan...