Conversion Therapies For Homeless Youth

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pursuits. It still generates a question whether a faith- based service is able to remain impartial towards the LGBT homeless youth, and provide necessary help despite professing a disparate ideology? In a scenario when an organization shares a convincement that any kind of behavior directed toward a person of one’s own sex should not be publicly approved, this establishment might not wish to recognize the needs of the LGBT youth, and in consequence treat them with a dose of disdain. This fallacy may also result into imposing conversion therapies on LGBT young people. Essentially, conversion therapies’ aim is to reform one’s mind and persuade him or her of the immorality of the chosen lifestyle. The church’s position concerning LGBT community

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