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A concerned citizen, Mary Francis, supports a conversion therapy ban and asks council to approve it at the Tuesday night special meeting. Mindy Ragan Wood / The Transcript
Advocates against conversion therapy applauded the Norman City Councilâs decision to ban the practice during a special session Tuesday night, while others claimed the city was acting outside its purview.
The council adopted the ordinance unanimously. Ward 8 Matt Peacock was absent.
Conversion therapy is a practice that attempts to change a personâs sexual orientation to heterosexual; itâs been called harmful and dangerous by the Human Rights Campaign, LGBTQ advocates and the American Psychiatric Association.
Bobby Bizup disappeared from a Catholic church camp at Mount St. Malo near Allenspark in 1958. 3 priests from the camp were later named sex abusers in a report.