{"id":7824,"date":"2015-09-01T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2015-08-31T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:09:05","slug":"nj-serious-about-protecting-lgbt-community-from-conversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/nj-serious-about-protecting-lgbt-community-from-conversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ serious about protecting LGBT community from conversion therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7830\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed.jpg\" alt=\"love needs no cure\" width=\"990\" height=\"632\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed.jpg 990w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed-225x144.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest against a conversion therapy conference in London in 2009. Photo credit: Nicolas Chinardet<\/figcaption><\/figure>In June 2013, the state assembly voted to make New Jersey the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/24\/us-usa-newjersey-gay-idUSBRE95N1EO20130624\">2nd state to prohibit conversion therapy<\/a>. Salon writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assemblyman Tim Eustace \u2014 the bill\u2019s sponsor and an openly gay man \u2014 has called the practice \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/christie-signs-bill-banning-gay-conversion-therapy-in-new-jersey\/\">an insidious form of child abuse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nclrights.org\/bornperfect-the-facts-about-conversion-therapy\/#q2\">Conversion therapy<\/a> is always forced, psychologically brutal and it is sometimes, physically damaging as well. Furthermore, it is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/patrickstrudwick\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-undergo-gay-conversion-therapy#.te9aV1RaVd\">false premise that being gay is wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On 25 June 2015, New Jersey courts acted to establish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/25\/new-jersey-jury-kneecaps-conversion-therapy-practitioners.html\">another legal avenue for protection to victims of conversion therapy<\/a> by opening an avenue for collecting financial damages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019t require evidence that conversion therapy is immoral, merely that it doesn\u2019t work as advertised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2013, the state assembly voted to make New Jersey the 2nd state to prohibit conversion therapy. Salon writes, Assemblyman Tim Eustace \u2014 the bill\u2019s sponsor and an openly gay man \u2014 has called the practice \u201can insidious form of child abuse.\u201d Conversion therapy is always forced, psychologically brutal and it is sometimes, physically &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/nj-serious-about-protecting-lgbt-community-from-conversion-therapy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NJ serious about protecting LGBT community from conversion therapy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","category-happiness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}