voluntary, faith-based therapy for kids.

Chiles contends her approach is different from “conversion therapy” practices from decades ago, like shock therapy.

I really wish people would realize children do not have “voluntary, faith” they believe what they are told. Sky Daddy is going to punish you for touching yourself? Better not do that.

And the country keeps falling into the dark ages.

There ought to be a conversion therapy to get people who believe in nonsense like god and jesus the help they need. When they use their make believe books to legislate, their delusion spreads to more stupid people who don’t know any better. We need to spread the words of “critical thinking” and “reality based facts” to the god-believers.

To a lot of people, that doesn't matter. Many believe that parents have the right to raise their kid however they want. To these people, the "voluntary" is only referring to the parents.

Pushing those kinds of beliefs onto children is a form of grooming

Which is a huge problem, seeing how it justifies torture

Good luck with that.

Theophobia(?) is not helpful. Shaming people for their religious beliefs benefits nobody. Biblical fundamentalism is a problem, sure, but science does not have an explanation yet for many things like the initial formation of single-celled life and the birth of the universe (big bang aside). We are in no position to judge someone for how they choose to fill those gaps.

Ah yes, because the rational person hears a story from a book about a god talking like some marvel supervillain celestial, and says: Sounds about right. That has no place in a secular government.