Bill Allowing Gay Conversion Therapy Clears House Committee
Source: KTUL ABC News Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Legislation to prohibit Oklahoma from regulating the practice of so-called gay conversion therapy has been approved by a state House committee.
Without debate, the Children, Youth and Family Services Committee voted 5-3 and sent the bill to the full House.
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The bill sponsored by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Sally Kern, who chairs the committee, is opposed by medical and psychological associations who say conversion therapy involves abusive tactics and is a dangerous and discredited practice. They say Kern's bill is the first of its kind in the U.S.
Read more: http://www.ktul.com/story/28189563/bill-allowing-gay-conversion-therapy-clears-house-committee
Kerns is a PSYCHO! Thankfully, this is facing some very tough opposition, but it doesn't mean it couldn't pass. Yet one more thing for the GLBT community of OK to fear.
Kali
(55,025 posts)and how revealing - a debunked "therapy" that needs special legislation to protect it from scrutiny or regulation? yeah that sounds legit!
Behind the Aegis
(53,991 posts)It has been appearing in all kinds of ways, but this is a major shot at us. Kerns is a major asshole who has been leading the charge.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)please resign from the United States of America. Your people obviously do not fit in a civilized society.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)msongs
(67,453 posts)rpannier
(24,339 posts)20 ' tall Oklahoma Satan and equally tall, Oklahoma Vishnu would be featured next to their tiny fundie statue
rpannier
(24,339 posts)alp227
(32,060 posts)is there no low Oklahoma won't sink to? With the AP US History law alone I'd award Oklahoma's legislature the nuttiest state legislature of the year.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)jmowreader
(50,565 posts)...and it's exactly the kind of shit Idaho legislators would pull.
romanic
(2,841 posts)That's all I have to say on this bullshit. *vomit*
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)If they continue with the fracking operations in OK -- already causing an unprecented swarm of earthquakes -- the state will be uninhabitable in a few years anyway.