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The First Amendment and the 'Reparative' Therapy Cases
Submitted by Don Stacy on Tue, 2013-05-07 00:00
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"Recently, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in what are bound to be two of this year's most controversial cases. Both are challenges to a California law that prohibits licensed psychologists from offering therapy that tries to change a minor patient's sexual orientation. The practice—so-called "reparative therapy"—has come under heavy criticism from psychologists and activists alike, who point not only to the mounting evidence that changing sexual orientation is impossible, but also to the psychological trauma inherent in treating gay people as if they were broken and in need of "repair.""
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