Finish Lawmakers Consider Conversion Therapy Ban

Case information
Incident date
Country
Finland
Place
Helsinki
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
Societal Sphere
  • Governmental
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Parental Rights and Education
  • Freedom of Religion
Place of Incident
  • Christian Building
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Mika Hirsimäki on flickr

Lawmaker in Finland have agreed to consider a conversion therapy ban after a citizen initiative received the required 50,000 signatures. The initiative was launched in July by Perttu Jussila and it had since reached 52,721 signatures which meant it would be referred to Parliament. If it would become law, traditional Christian teaching on gender would be challenged.

The initiative called for the ban of child and adult conversion therapy.

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