"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The First Amendment and the 'Reparative' Therapy Cases
"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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