{"id":2499,"date":"2016-05-01T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:13:15","slug":"legislation-to-ban-ex-gay-therapy-introduced-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2499","title":{"rendered":"Legislation to ban ex-gay therapy introduced in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) along with 16 other senators introduced legislation this week that would make ex-gay therapy illegal in the United States. The bill would declare the treatment a fraudulent practice. Via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2016\/04\/28\/booker-murray-introduce-legislation-against-ex-gay-therapy\/\"> The Washington Blade:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Booker and Murray along with 16 other Democrats introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, which would classify the widely discredited practice as a fraud, making it illegal under the Federal Trade Commission?s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Booker, who last year introduced a resolution condemning ?ex-gay? therapy, said in a statement the practice ?is harmful, especially to children.?<\/p>\n<p>?Our legislation will remove any question that the FTC and State Attorneys General have the tools they need to classify conversion therapy as what it is ? fraud ? and ban its use,? Booker said. ?Conversion therapy is a discredited, harmful practice that has been rejected by countless medical and mental health organizations for years. It has no place in our society.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) along with 16 other senators introduced legislation this week that would make ex-gay therapy illegal in the United States. The bill would declare the treatment a fraudulent practice. Via The Washington Blade: Booker and Murray along with 16 other Democrats introduced the Therapeutic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[721,665,722,723],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-cory-booker","tag-ex-gay-therapy","tag-patty-murray","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}