New Jersey Trial on Gay Conversion Therapy Set to Begin

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

New Jersey Trial on Gay Conversion Therapy Set to Begin

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jun 1, 2015, 2:40 PM ET

Jury selection is underway over a New Jersey lawsuit that claims a nonprofit violated state consumer fraud laws when it offered treatment it said would turn gays into heterosexuals.

Four men and two of their mothers sued a Jersey City-based nonprofit that offers gay conversion therapy through affiliated counselors.

The plaintiffs claim they received treatment that included being told to spend more time naked with their fathers and participating in role-playing in which they were subjected to anti-gay slurs in a locker room setting.

One plaintiff says he was told to beat a pillow, representing his mother, with a tennis racket.

The nonprofit, Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, contends there's still debate over whether human sexual orientation is changeable and it isn't an issue for courts to decide.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jersey-trial-gay-conversion-therapy-set-begin-31450479

[xfundy]

1. "there's still debate over whether human sexual orientation is changeable"

Only among idiots.

[iandhr]

2. An important legal question is...

... did they offer this "therapy" (putting the word in quotes for a reason) before or after the practice was banned by state law? If the the answer is before they didn't break the law despite being despicable people

[Betty Karlson]

4. Is that so?

I believe that their case is about "false advertising". If they can make the case that the purported methods of the so-called conversion therapy are not likely to change human sexual orientation, advertising those therapies as a way to change the aforementioned orientation is likely to be false advertising.

That, in my humble and non-professional opinion, is where the burden of proof is likely to ly.

[shenmue]

3. Stop it, dumbasses