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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 05:57 PM Mar 2017

House committee votes against banning gay conversion therapy

New Hampshire won’t ban gay conversion therapy for minors this year, after a House committee voted this week to hold back the bill.

In a 13-8 vote, the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs committee retained the legislation Tuesday over concerns that it limits parental rights and counseling for youth working through their sexuality, members said.

The decision marks another setback for LGBT-rights groups, which earlier this year saw the Republican-led House defeat a bill to expand anti-discrimination protections for transgender people.

“It’s another year to go without protections for people,” said Democratic Rep. Renny Cushing, a co-sponsor on both pieces of legislation.

Read more: http://www.concordmonitor.com/house-committee-retains-conversion-therapy-bill-8994318

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House committee votes against banning gay conversion therapy (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
creepy morons! luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1
Torture then, this is an act of war against gay people and their families Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
Michelle Bachmann is somewhere crying. lol SummerSnow Mar 2017 #3
Sounds like littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #4
It was HB 587, TexasTowelie Mar 2017 #6
♡ Texas Towelie ♡ littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #7
I haven't had such a boost of self-confidence TexasTowelie Mar 2017 #8
. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #9
What we really need is Republican conversion therapy. Their madness may be curable. n/t Binkie The Clown Mar 2017 #5

littlemissmartypants

(25,483 posts)
4. Sounds like
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 06:06 PM
Mar 2017

It's time to find out the names numbers of the against against voters.

What do you know Texas Towelie?

Can you aggregate the names, like you do the news? That would be so awesome!

♡lmsp

TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
6. It was HB 587,
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 07:20 PM
Mar 2017

but I could not find the names of the representatives that voted to retain the bill in committee.

I looked at two sites:
https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB587/2017
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/housebillsincommitteebillstatus.aspx?lsr=200&code=XH09

My regrets that I did not attain the level of awesomeness that is expected from me.

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