Lawsuit challenges California ban on gay conversion therapy for youth

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Christian legal group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a landmark California law that bars a controversial therapy aimed at reversing homosexuality from being used on children and teens, calling it a violation of privacy and free speech rights. California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed the ban into law over the weekend, making the nation’s most populous state the first to ban so-called conversion therapy among youth. Gay rights advocates say the therapy can psychologically harm gay and lesbian youth. …