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Mike Pence once supported the use of federal funding to treat people "seeking to change their sexual behavior."

 

Which is essentially the same thing.   Also..

Although he didn’t say so outright, the position has been widely interpreted as signaling Pence’s support for “gay conversion” therapy, which seeks to “cure” patients of being attracted to members of the same sex.

According to the American Psychological Association, electric shocks were one of the techniques used to address homosexuality through “aversion therapy” prior to the group’s decision in 1973 to stop classifying it as a mental disorder. By the time Pence made his statement regarding the Ryan White CARE Act, that group and several others, including the American Psychiatric Association, had rejected the practice:

 

He never used the words "conversion therapy" but let's call a spade a spade, that is exactly what he meant.


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