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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on July 14, 2019, 02:43:15 am
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Israel minister defends 'gay conversion therapy'
Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz has said he believes so-called "gay conversion therapy" can work, triggering widespread condemnation.
"I think it's possible," Mr Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi, told Israel's Channel 12 TV channel. He added that he had "a very deep familiarity with the issue".
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said such remarks were "unacceptable". Other politicians and gay groups also voiced criticism.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-minister-defends-gay-conversion-therapy/ar-AAEhFuk (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-minister-defends-gay-conversion-therapy/ar-AAEhFuk)
If one continues reading, it sounds like Mr. Peretz says he has even done such.
So, will he last?
Also, he compared intermarriage to the Holocaust.
An interesting individual.
There are plenty of pictures of him in younger years in an IDF uniform:
(https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/04/Untitled-41.jpg)
He said the above main quoted article at a conservative convention it sounds a bit like.