Behind the Headlines: A prominent LGBTQ advocate resigned from a state suicide task force after a conversion therapy bill was drastically altered in the legislature
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "The conversion therapy bill was hijacked and rewritten to protect conversion therapy," said Troy Williams, Equality Utah's Executive Director. LGBT supporters with Equality Utah and therapists say they will continue to fight conversion therapy during a press conference to condemn the passage of HB399. The House Judiciary Committee approved a substitute bill by Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, on Tuesday that would allow therapists to have some discussion about changing sexual orientation with young patients.
| March 7, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
| Updated: March 8, 2019, 3:22 p.m.
Amendments drastically alter a bill to ban conversion therapy in Utah, leading to the resignation of a prominent LGBTQ advocate from a state suicide task force. Utah lawmakers abandon a proposed tax overhaul, for now. And prosecutors drop counts against a medical cannabis patient facing drug charges.
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