Wed Feb 9, 2022 – 3:36 pm EST
PHOENIX (LifeSiteNews) — The Republican speaker of the Arizona House has joined Democrats in supporting an LGBT “discrimination” bill that, among other controversial provisions, would forbid licensed health practitioners from helping patients overcome unwanted same-sex attraction.
The Associated Press reports that the legislation would prohibit anti-LGBT “discrimination” in workplaces, housing, and places of public accommodation, with exceptions for churches but not religious business owners, leaving the likes of photographers, florists, and bakers vulnerable to the possibility of being forced to participate in same-sex “weddings”; or employers being forced to accommodate cross-dressing and sex-change treatments regardless of their own values or policies.
The legislation would also bar licensed health care professionals from practicing so-called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy on individuals struggling with homosexuality. Opponents of such therapy commonly elicit opposition to the practice by invoking fringe, abusive practices such as electric shock and other forms of physically-harmful junk science. But in reality, modern reparative treatment consists largely of simple counseling, the effectiveness of which is backed by studies as well as testimony from those who have benefited.
Nevertheless, the bill has the support of GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers,
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