Conversion Therapy is cruel, abusive, and as study after study has shown, ineffective . The reason “Therapy” works is that it helps develop new behavior, not erase thoughts. All real therapies work this way... cognitive, hypnotism, even physical therapy. Moreover, therapy only works if the person receiving said therapy is a willing participant . Religious freedom and freedom from parents forcing their children to be subject to fake, unproven, pseudoscientific therapy can simultaneously exist. Jesus would not approve of conversion therapy, and to see my fellow Christians weaponize their faith to support it gives me great sadness.