Parents have the absolute right to protect the health & well being of their children.  This right includes seeking therapy for children who experience difficulty with their sexual orientation.  The government  has no right to determine what therapy a parent may or may not choose for a child.  This proposed ban on therapy that addresses sexual orientation also violates the religious freedom of Virginians who seek help in addressing their proper relationship with God and with their fellow human beings.  We all have the right to strengthen, with counseling if we so choose, our understanding of ourselves and of our human nature as male and female, as men and women, and has human persons in society with others.