TAMPA: Federal Court Strikes Down Ex-Gay Torture Ban

[Soph0571]

Today, a federal trial court departed from numerous Florida and national rulings by striking down Tampa’s protections against conversion therapy for minors. Plaintiffs and the extremist, far-right Liberty Counsel brought the Vazzo v. City of Tampa lawsuit seeking to subject minors to the widely discredited and dangerous practice of conversion therapy.

“This is a harmful decision that puts some of our most vulnerable young people at risk,” said Jon Harris Maurer, Equality Florida’s Director of Public Policy. “The decision for Tampa stands completely alone in its reasoning.

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20,000 LGBTQ youth will undergo “conversion therapy” before they’re 18. Protecting them is about saving lives, not politics. Today’s ruling by the court on Tampa’s ban puts vulnerable youth in harm’s way.

“Conversion therapy” needs to end forever. http://eqfl.org/tampa-conversion-therapy-ban-ruling … #sayfie

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WTF is wrong with these people. We all know the stats on suicide and self harm because of societal lack of acceptance, particularly when it comes to our young gay community. This is an outrage. All these poor kids in religious right households being forced to 'pray away the gay'. The harm this does. And in 2019? Heh

[Wounded Bear]

1. The march to Theocracy goes on...

[jberryhill]

2. Did the judge give them a bible afterwards?

I hear that’s all the rage now.