The use of "conversion therapy" is a dangerous and discredited practice, which is based on the false claim that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) is a mental illness, and therefore taking advantage of parents and harming vulnerable  youth. 

It is my belief that such a misuse of mental therapy will haunt the lives of our vulnerable youth well into their senior years, if they are able to exist, not "live", that long before turning to suicide, because they feel that they do not "fit" in the society that has turned their backs on them. 

Bill Griggs, Virginia Beach