This post originally appeared at https://wifamilycouncil.org/radio/green-bay-city-council-passes-resolution-on-conversion-therapy/
The Green Bay City Council recently passed a resolution supporting a statewide ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors. The Council’s issued the decision in response to a State Senate bill seeking to accomplish the same goal and a recent state Supreme Court decision that overturned the Legislature’s power to suspend administrative rules. The resolution excludes regulation of “personal beliefs or pastoral conversations,” in an effort to avoid First Amendment conflicts.
Conversion therapy is not shock therapy or any other bizarre kind of treatment. Conversion therapy is talk counseling—counseling that when done by Christians typically includes telling the minors the truth and helping them reconcile their biological gender with their mind and emotions. Green Bay got this one all wrong by affirming the lies confused young people are told.