Obama Wants End To LGBT Conversion Therapy

Barack Obama has called for an end to psychiatric therapies that seek to change the sexual orientation of gay, lesbian and transgender youth. The White House put out a statement in response to a petition calling for Mr Obama to back a law to ban conversion therapy, which is supported by some socially conservative organizations and religious doctors. The petition was started following the suicide in December of 17-year-old transgender youth Leelah Alcorn, who died after her parents forced her to