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WASHINGTON ― A group preaching that sexual orientation is a choice and that “conversion therapy” should be legal held a forum in a Capitol Hill office building Wednesday, thanks to Rep. Vicky Hartzler .
A staffer for Hartzler initially denied she was the sponsor. “This was a Family Research Council event,” said Danny Jativa, Hartzler’s communications director. Hartzler has long opposed LGBTQ equality. She has a rating of zero on the Human Rights Campaign’s congressional scorecard and was a driving force in getting President Donald Trump to ban transgender individuals from serving openly in the military. Hartzler was also part of a push to get Amazon to sell books promoting conversion therapy.
Lieu told HuffPost that he wrote the nation’s first bill to ban conversion therapy while in the California legislature. “My goal with the California bill, and now my federal bill, was and is to end a for-profit practice that is unscientific and harmful,” he said. People who were once advocates of the practice of trying to “cure” LGBTQ people have also admitted that it doesn’t actually work.
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