Education Minister Rafi Peretz recently voiced his support for so-called "conversion therapy," which attempts to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of a person through psychological, spiritual and in extreme cases, physical means.
The therapy has been widely discredited by members of the mental health and LGBTQ communities.
Thus, I was shocked, angered, and repulsed by the minister's hateful and homophobic remarks.
Israel should be a light unto the nations but the minister's comments bring only darkness and shame. We can do better. We must do better.
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