RNS: LGBTQ faith leaders say Supreme Court's conversion therapy ruling will harm youth
I spoke with Kathryn Post of Religion News Service to share my reaction to the Supreme Court siding with an evangelical Christian therapist who argued Colorado’s conversion therapy ban restricts her right to free speech.
It took me more than a decade after I left conversion therapy to finally start to really, truly untangle the harm that it caused in my life,” said Schraeder Rodriguez, who is the author of the forthcoming book “Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith & Belonging.” “When a faith tradition tells you that who you are is fundamentally broken, that God hates you because of you being the way that you are, that you have to change who you are to be accepted by whatever faith tradition you’re a part of, that just does something to someone’s spirit.”
