Richard Coles (Ian West/PA)
The Reverend Richard Coles has called for an end to conversion therapy.
Speaking during an excerpt for BBC programme Morning Live, which will be broadcast on Thursday, the broadcaster said the practice, which attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity, causes “untold misery”.
Last month, the Government announced in the Queen’s Speech that measures would be brought forward to ban conversion therapy.
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Coles said he always took his own homosexuality as “a given that I had no choice over at all”.
“I’m a priest of the Church of England and I’m also gay and for me that’s never been a problem,” he said.