Lawyers for the couple had tried to argue that New Jersey’s ban on so-called ‘ex-gay’ or ‘reparative’ therapies violated their freedom of speech and freedom of religion as well as their right to equal protection by ‘denying minors the opportunity to pursue a particular course of action that can help them address the conflicts between their religious and moral values and same-sex attractions, behaviors or identity.’
However Federal Court Judge Freda Wolfson found that the couple were allowed to believe and say whatever they wanted under New Jersey's ban on 'ex-gay' therapies but parents did not have the right to subject their children to treatments that health authorities disapproved of.
‘The fundamental rights of parents do not include the right to choose a specific medical or mental health treatment that the state has reasonably deemed harmful or ineffective,’ Wolfson found, according to Fox News. ‘To find otherwise would create unimaginable and unintentional consequences.’ This is the second challenge to New Jersey’s ban on ‘ex-gay’ therapies that Wolfson has dismissed. The first was in November last year where a group that included two licensed therapists tried to challenge the law.
And that in a nutshell is the problem, there were 2 licensed therapist promoting the "change is possible" bullshit.
Licensed by whom?
The real culprit here is the APA (American Psychological Association) who don't regulate the therapist of these harmful practices, nor do they take them to task or demand oversight of this harmful practice.
Take away these peoples license (usually given by religious colleges) and they can't do harm...it really is as simple as that!
The judge in this case, should have went one step further; these parents will seek these therapies in another state, harm is and will continue too happen to this poor boy, the judge should have also warned the parents to back the fuck off or face prosecution or removal of that child from their egregious, religious machinations.
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