It's Time To Ban Conversion Therapy

  Topping the agenda of LGBTQIA+ activists is banning so-called "conversion therapy," and for good reason. This practice has been discredited by every major mental and physical health organization, yet persists due to misguided hatred. Most susceptible to this practice are minors who have no choice but obeying their parents. This attempt to change who they are, as if it is a choice, causes depression, anxiety, and even suicide, and already-major problem in the community. Mental health issues are 8 times as likely and drug use and STDs 3 times as likely in minors who received conversion therapy.

Banning this practice and protecting America's youth is a bipartisan issue. Of the 20 states that have banned the practice, 8 bans were implemented under Republican governors. Gerald Ford's dream was that all sects of the party would embrace these rights, and the party that prides itself on protection of individual liberties should surely agree with one's right to love someone without being subjected to hate and ignorance.

Not only is it prudent, but it is practical. 5 times the issue of bans in states like California and New Jersey has gone before the Supreme Court and 5 times its legality has been upheld. In over a dozen other states, major cities and counties have banned the practice. However, the conservative wing of the Republican Party, driven by prideful religious groups, recently defeated a proposed ban in Wisconsin, and all caring people of both parties must come together to show those with hate that LOVE ALWAYS WINS!