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Spain has announced proposals to issue fines of up to €150,000 to anyone found promoting conversion therapy in the country.
Updated: 1:52 PM PST, December 17, 2020
The practice of the so-called gay conversion therapy can range from electric shock treatment to religious teachings or talking therapies designed to change someone s sexuality. It is already outlawed fully in Malta, Switzerland as well as parts of U.S.
More than 370 religious leaders from around the world including South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Archbishop Desmond Tutu are calling for a ban on conversion therapy, BBC News reported.
The idea of the so-called gay conversion therapy is the attempt to change a person s sexual orientation or gender identity. Many leaders of the world’s leading faiths have signed their name to a declaration denouncing the conversion therapy and calling for it to be banned. Some of the other leaders include former Chief Rabbi of Ireland David Rosen, as well as the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes.