DES MOINES — Senate Republicans are looking at prohibiting local governments from banning so-called conversion therapy, a method of attempting to convince gay people to become heterosexual that has been
Under a bill proposed by state Sen. Sandy Salmon, a Republican from Janesville, cities and counties would be barred from prohibiting conversion therapy in their jurisdictions.
Conversion therapy, the practice of attempting to convince gay people to become heterosexual, is widely discredited and opposed by medical and psychiatric organizations