Lawmaker hopes to overturn old Calif. law to 'cure' homosexuality

Source: Sacramento Bee

Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal figures 43 years is long enough to try to "cure" homosexuality.

So the Long Beach Democrat has introduced a bill that would strip a section from California's Welfare and Institutions Code mandating a search for such a cure.

Assembly Bill 2199, is just one of hundreds of bills given birth this week by lawmakers scurrying to meet a Friday deadline for introducing legislation this session.

AB 2199's targeted section, which was placed into law in 1967, requires the Department of Mental Health to "plan, conduct and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation, including deviations conducive to sex crimes against children, and the causes and cures of homosexuality, and into methods of identifying potential sex offenders."

It's unclear how seriously the department ever heeded the Legislature's instructions.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2551289.html

Better use of time and resources

huge bureaucracy trying to figure out why they are not making progress.....


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