To: Mike Rice

End Reparitive Gay Therapy

"Ban the practice of reparitive gay therapy_ also known as "pray away the gay clinics"_ from the state of (state)"

Why is this important?

I would like to see statewide petitions_ particularly here in Missouri and Kansas_ to ban reparitive gay therapy. Hundreds, if not thousands, of gay teens have been forced_ in most cases, by their own parents_ to be treated by quack therapists in hopes of praying away their homosexuality. I find this barbaric and often wonder how many youths have committed suicide because their parents reacted in such a way to their sexual orientation. As an aside, it is an issue that would really piss of the Religious Right because I think it could win at the polls.