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Bill in Spain seeks to imprison pastors helping people struggling with same-sex attraction

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The Spanish Evangelical Alliance has publicly denounced a bill that would imprison pastors and others helping those seeking to leave a practicing homosexual lifestyle or reconcile their gender identity with their gender.

With cross-party support, the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, approved on June 24 a preliminary bill amending 10/1995 of the Penal Code.

The amendment would “penalize conversion therapies aimed at eliminating or denying sexual orientation, sexual identity or gender expression,” according to a Congress press release titled, “Congress Considers Bill to Criminalize Conversion Therapies Aimed at Eliminating or Denying Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, or Gender Expression.”

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It would probably have wider appeal if there was similar therapy for heterosexuals who want nothing to do with sexuality. If both were promoted at the same time, it would be more difficult to classify it as discrimination.
 
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