Bakers, therapists to lose conscience protections under proposed Arizona ‘Equality’ bill

A proposed Arizona bill will require bakers, flower arrangers, photographers and web designers, among other creative professionals, to make available their services regardless of their individual conscience, advocates said Monday.

In addition, licensed counselors will no longer be able to offer so-called “conversion therapy” to minors, regardless of whether the minor or their parents want the intervention. Such a provision, state Rep. Daniel Hernandez, a Democrat, told a Phoenix news conference, “will have an enormous benefit to the LGBTQ youth of the state of Arizona.”

Religious counselors working in a church, synagogue, mosque or other faith-based facilities will not be subject to this provision, backers said….(Excerpts from the Washington Times)