Judge orders conversion therapy to continue in Florida while city defends ban

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https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/judge-orders-conversion-therapy-to-continue-in-tampa-while-city-defends-ordinance-banning-it-20190205/?https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/judge-orders-conversion-therapy-to-continue-in-tampa-while-city-defends-ordinance-banning-it-20190205/?

TAMPA — Working to change gender identity through a process known as “conversion therapy” has been deemed ineffective among mental health experts and broadly derided for
techniques that can include electric shock.

But last week, a federal judge ruled that the city of Tampa must allow some parts of the therapy to continue despite a city ordinance adopted in April 2017 that bans it.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone issued a limited injunction against the ordinance, affirming the ban on electric shock while finding that verbal counseling is protected
by the First Amendment. The injunction was issued in response to a December 2017 lawsuit by the Christian legal advocacy group the Liberty Counsel challenging the city ordinance.

The plaintiffs said they engage only in talk therapy and only treat patients who volunteer for it. Banning such talk therapy, the plaintiffs argued, amounts to banning speech with which
the defendants do not agree — an unconstitutional move. What’s more, the judge wrote, the city presented no evidence that minors in Tampa are being harmed by conversion therapy.

Under Tampa’s ban, therapists and counselors who offer the therapy to minors face a $1,000 fine for a first offense and a $5,000 penalty for subsequent violations.

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The consequences of having a rigged justice system, first the military allowed to arbitrarily discriminate, next state sanctioned torture, but hey, Mitch Mcconnell sleeps well at night knowing the liberals are owned.

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The dude said the proudest moment of his life was when he blocked Merrick Garland.

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Though it's fucked up, it's a persons right to attend whatever talk "therapy" they want. This is, of course, assuming that the participants are adults and not teenagers who have been forced to go by their parents. I agree with banning the electroshock "therapy", but you can't prevent someone from going to a religious leader for something they incorrectly believe to be a sin or mental illness.