California Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Blocked by Court

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-22/california-gay-therapy-injunction-granted-by-appeal-court.html

Therapists who counsel patients under 18 years of age on changing their sexual orientation to avoid homosexuality won an emergency order from a federal appeals court in San Francisco temporarily blocking a California law that outlaws the practice.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted a request by therapist David Pickup and others who are suing to overturn the law signed signed Sept. 30 by California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat.

``California was correct to outlaw this unsound and harmful practice, and the attorney general will vigorously defend this law,'' Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Kamala Harris, said in an e-mailed statement.

The opponents of the law appealed a Dec. 4 ruling by U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento, who said citizens don’t have a right to choose a mental health treatment the state has deemed harmful to minors. Parents seeking the therapy can still get it through churches or unlicensed providers, Mueller said.

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1. I am speechless the ninth circuit did this.

Talk about a cluster fuck.