Assembly repeals 'cures for homosexuality' language from 1950 law

[The Straight Story]

Assembly repeals 'cures for homosexuality' language from 1950 law


SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) -- California lawmakers have voted to modify a decades-old law designed to find the causes and cures of homosexuality.

Assembly Bill 2199, by Assem. Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach passed the state Assembly Monday on a 62-0 vote. It changes the law by striking language calling for research into how to cure homosexuality.

Lowenthal said the changes make the law read as it should have 60 years ago and said California is now "setting things right."

The law was written in 1950 and classifies gay people as sexual deviants. It requires the state to conduct research to find the causes of sex crimes against children and singles out homosexuals as a group that should be researched.

The bill now goes to the state Senate.

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