Mark Armstrong

Spain’s health minister has called for gay conversion therapy to be abolished. It comes after a report in a national Spanish newspaper claimed that a branch of the Catholic Church near the capital, Madrid, offered to “cure” a reporter who was posing as a gay man trying to change his sexuality. The article en El Diario says the man was advised, in a counselling session provided by the diocese. to stop watching porn and masturbate less. But Spanish Health Minister, Maria Luisa Carcedo Roces, said such practices are illegal. “They (the church) are breaking the law,” the minister told a press conference. […]