Judge: Claiming to ‘cure’ homosexuality is consumer fraud

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/judge-claiming-to-cure-homosexuality-is-consumer-fraud/

Judge: Claiming to ‘cure’ homosexuality is consumer fraud
NJ.com
Susan K. Livio
13 Feb 2015 at 14:16 ET

TRENTON — People who provide gay-to-straight conversion therapy are committing fraud if they describe homosexuality as a mental disorder that can be cured, a state judge said Tuesday in a ruling a civil rights group predicted would deal a serious blow to the treatment's future across the nation.

The decision by Superior Court Judge Peter F. Bariso Jr., sitting in Hudson County, gives an edge to the four men and two parents suing Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing or JONAH, accusing the Jersey City organization that promotes the treatment of violating New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.

The decision is bound to have a far-reaching impact, said David Dinielli, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center which brought the lawsuit.

"This ruling is monumental and devastating to the conversion therapy industry," Dinelli said. "For the first time, a court has ruled that it is fraudulent as a matter of law for conversion therapists to tell clients that they have a mental disorder that can be cured. This is the principal lie the conversion therapy industry uses throughout the country to peddle its quackery to vulnerable clients."

[Joe Magarac]

1. Good news and long overdue

I have been saying for a while this is the way to close these guys down.