New Jersey Judge Rules Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy is Consumer Fraud

For the first time ever, a United States judge has affirmed what theAmerican Psychiatric Association has been saying since 1973: Homosexuality is not a mental illness.

Michele Bachmann is one of the nation’s biggest proponents of “praying the gay away.” Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Judge Peter F. Barsio Jr. of the New Jersey Superior Court ruled last weekagainst the conversion therapy providerJews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH). Here’s the official ruling, short and sweet:

It...