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标 题: 变态妖破坏人权受挫：California law banning gay 'conversion therapy' put on hold
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 25 10:15:41 2012, 美东)
California law banning gay 'conversion therapy' put on hold
From AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN
updated 6:12 AM EST, Sat December 22, 2012
(CNN) -- An appeals court slapped an injunction on a new California state
law that would ban conversion therapy for minors -- a method some say can
help turn a gay person straight.
The federal panel of three judges at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled Friday to block the law that would prevent young people under 18 from
undergoing the controversial treatment.
It would have gone into effect January 1.
The ruling will keep the law, the first of its kind in the United States,
from being instituted until it can be argued at future court hearings.
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Conversion therapy has been being hotly debated across the country for some
time.
Some psychologists insist conversion therapy is dangerous to patients, and
say it simply does not work.
"To date, there has been no scientifically adequate research to show that
therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation (sometimes called reparative or
conversion therapy) is safe or effective," the American Psychological
Association writes on its website.
"Furthermore, it seems likely that the promotion of change therapies
reinforces stereotypes and contributes to a negative climate for lesbian,
gay, and bisexual persons," says the APA, the largest scientific and
professional organization representing psychology in the United States.
David Pickup, a spokesman for the National Association for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality, believes conversion therapy is valid and should be
used.
"We do competent therapy, therapy that truly works," he told CNN in October,
adding that he'd undergone the treatment himself and was treating others. |
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