The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has solved Utah’s LGBT discrimination problem! Or so it should seem, by the amount of hype its recent statement in support of a ban on conversion therapy.
Of course, no one has forgotten that the ban was only at risk in the first place because of the church. (Not to mention the fact that Mormons are the primary participants and believers in conversion therapy in the state of Utah.) But a disavowal of a pseudoscientific practice that harms Utah’s LGBT youth is not heroic. It should be a no-brainer.