Gay conversion therapy advocates heartened by Republican electoral victories

[DonViejo]

By BRIAN ROSS and BRIAN EPSTEIN

Advocates of long-discredited gay conversion therapy programs say they are heartened by the election of Donald Trump and are counting on Vice President Mike Pence and congressional Republicans to help fight off efforts to make such programs illegal.

“I certainly hope that this administration will pull back from some of the aggressive activism that the Obama administration engaged in,” said Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, a powerful conservative lobbying group in Washington that is active in supporting sexual reorientation efforts.

President Obama's Surgeon General Vivek Murthy publicly stated that “conversion therapy is not sound medical practice” and that such programs “are harmful and are not appropriate therapeutic practices.”

Conversion therapy has been outlawed for licensed mental health providers in California, Oregon, New Jersey, Vermont, Illinois and the District of Colombia, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. One of the reasons Mike Pence should not be elected dog catcher, let alone president

is his open, documented desire to torture gay people.

Maybe it is just me, but I dont think our president should be on record wanting to torture millions of Americans.

[crazycatlady]

2. Pence reminds me of Santorum

So far in the closet that he makes up for it by being extremely homophobic.