Conversion therapy Bill could pose danger to marriage supporters
by Colin Hart, Coalition for Marriage:
Conversion therapy Bill could pose danger to marriage supporters.
The Queen’s Speech last week confirmed the Government’s intention to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’.
Any conversion therapy bill excluding transgender therapy is bound to be amended in an attempt to include it, as dozens of feminists and others have argued in a letter to the national press.
At C4M, our concerns relate to defending marriage.
One of the biggest issues is that therapy is not clearly defined. Could conversations between a mum and her daughter be caught?
Clearly the Government thinks there’s a risk of such conversations being caught which is why Boris Johnson said he wanted to drop transgender issues from his Bill. He said parents should be able to talk to their children on transgender matters. But the very same argument can be made about sexual orientation, which still remains in the Bill.
What if a mum argued against same-sex marriage every time her daughter raised the subject? It would be alarming if this was subject to the criminal law.
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