Peer: ‘So-called conversion therapy is already banned’
from The Christian Institute:
A member of the House of Lords has said that a new law on so-called conversion therapy is “seeking to fix a problem that doesn’t exist”.
There are currently two Private Members’ Bills being considered by Parliament, one in the House of Lords, and one in the Commons, but Lord Jackson, a Conservative MP from 2005 to 2017, believes new legislation is unnecessary.
In an article for The Parliament Politics magazine, the Peer said that genuinely abusive practices which activists claim are taking place are already illegal, and so to continue to push for legislation is simply “wasting parliamentary time”.
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He wrote: “We’ve all been concerned by claims that gay men and women experienced electro-shock treatment from quacks who thought they could make a person heterosexual. Even worse, we were told about the horrific practice of ‘corrective rape’”.
But Lord Jackson noted that those pushing for a ban have admitted that rape is an illegal act, observing: “No-one has yet explained exactly what abusive actions are currently legal, that those promoting the bill want to make illegal.
“There is no point wasting parliamentary time criminalising something that is already criminal. We should just ensure existing laws are properly applied. Rape, ‘gay cure’ electro-shock therapy and other violent, abusive or psychologically harmful attacks are already banned.”
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