NJ serious about protecting LGBT community from conversion therapy

In June 2013, the state assembly voted to make New Jersey the 2nd state to prohibit conversion therapy. Salon writes,

Assemblyman Tim Eustace — the bill’s sponsor and an openly gay man — has called the practice “an insidious form of child abuse.”

Conversion therapy is always forced, psychologically brutal and it is sometimes, physically damaging as well. Furthermore, it is based on the false premise that being gay is wrong.

On 25 June 2015, New Jersey courts acted to establish another legal avenue for protection to victims of conversion therapy by opening an avenue for collecting financial damages:

While legal progress stutters and stalls, the New Jersey verdict offers a tantalizing new avenue for challenging conversion therapy organizations: making them legally and financially liable for their claims. Consumer fraud lawsuits don’t require evidence that conversion therapy is immoral, merely that it doesn’t work as advertised.