JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-18-19) — Israel’s education minister Rafi Peretz, has apologized for his controversial remarks about 'gay conversion therapy” and intermarriage among Diaspora Jews that drew worldwide backlash. Rafi Peretz, leader of a small right wing religious nationalist party, wrote in a letter to the head of the Jewish Agency on Tuesday that his [...]
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-15-19) — Israel's new Education Minister Rafi Peretz backtracks his support on gay conversion therapy. The Education Minister attempted to clarify his controversial statements on Saturday, about gay conversion therapy, saying he did not intend that gay children should be sent to conversion therapy. Education Minister Peretz Performed Gay Conversion Therapy on [...]
'Gay Conversion Therapy' suffered another blow to its ideology as the Maryland House of Delegates passed the Youth Mental Health Protection Act by a vote of 95-27. Health Occupations - Conversion Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Youth Mental Health Protection Act) Prohibiting certain mental health or child care practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy with [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Is the United States going backwards when it comes to its LGBTQ citizens? After at least nine states as well as over two dozen municipalities nationwide, have banned the potentially harmful treatment known as Gay Conversion Therapy and yet, New Hampshire has decided to continue to allow this practice too [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The U.S. Supreme Court once again has rejected a challenge to California's ban on the debunked gay conversion therapy. All 9 justices did not comment Monday in refusing to hear an appeal from a San Diego minister and several other co-plaintiffs who argued that the law violated their First Amendment [...]