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licensed mental health professionals from engaging in the practice but does not prohibit parents, clergy members, or religious counselors who are not acting “in the capacity of a health care professional.”
“People have freedom of speech and have their opinion,” Shurka explained. “But we're trying to keep the integrity of what it means to be a licensed professional.” The vote came after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known also as the Mormon church or the LDS church, officially voiced support for the measure, the AP reported. Most of the Utah state legislature and about two-thirds of those living in the state are Mormon, so the church carries quite a bit of power here, according to the AP. In October 2019, the LDS churchthat they’ve consistently opposed conversion therapy, adding that their “therapists do not practice it.
But those announcements were deeply scrutinized, in part due to the church opposing a version of the bill that didn’t allow for religious exemptions,
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