outlawing 'conversion therapy'

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Every once in a while -- not often, perhaps, but every once in a while -- a bit of common sense enters the public policy arena.

In California, Governor Jerry Brown made his state the first in the nation when he signed a bit of legislation that would outlaw "conversion therapy" for homosexual teenagers. Such therapy is premised on the notion that there is something wrong with homosexuals and what is wrong should be made right.

The therapies "have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery," Brown said in a statement.

It makes me wonder what other conversion efforts might take a lesson from California.
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