Hear, hear! And while we're at it, let's call on churches to STOP advocating for and practicing conversion therapy. That's on my mind, because where I live in Michigan in the United States, we recently passed a state law banning conversion therapy.

A couple weeks ago, an official organ of the Church, Catholic Charities, filed a federal lawsuit against the law — on behalf of a woman who is a licensed medical-health professional and a Catholic, who practices conversion therapy.

The Church claims her rights are being violated, because practicing conversion therapy as a mental health professional is an important part of exercising her faith.

I'd like to know what her licensing board thinks about that, personally.

But I know one thing, any religion that practices conversion therapy is a disgusting religion. Any mental health practitioner who practices conversion therapy needs to have their license pulled by their board.

I don't know why that hasn't happened with this practicing conversion therapist in Michigan.

But I know one thing, the same Church headed by a pope who called gay people the Italian equivalent of "faggots" twice in the space of 2 weeks recently, needs to get their moral priorities straight.

Whatever Pope Francis thinks about us faggots notwithstanding, conversion therapy has been definitively linked to very poor mental health outcomes, including suicide.

Any institution complicit in that evil, whether they call us faggots like Catholic Church leaders do or not.

But I think the main thrust of your article is really instructive. Here we have newspapers pushing what is effectively superstitious nonsense. Homeopathy? That's not science, it's superstitious nonsense.

It's the same ridiculous nonsense as the sorts of superstitions against queer people that churches so often push. It's time for churches to wake up and start looking at facts and evidence instead of pushimg their ignorant dogma that's based on nothing real.

As a queer and autistic person myself, I'm beyond fed up with ignorance and the kind of toxic "faith" that demonizes people like you and me.

And I would certainly expect that journalists would do a better job than what you've reported on in this story.

Thanks for sharing it!