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Mormons: Don’t bar “conversion therapy” for LGBT minors.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it’s against a proposed ban in Utah of so-called conversion therapy by psychologists for LGBTQ minors, reports the CBS affililiate here, KUTV. In a statement released Tuesday night, the church said it opposes…

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Why Megan Phelps left the Westboro Baptist Church.

Growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper was taught that God hated gay people. The church, which was founded by Phelps-Roper’s grandfather, Fred Phelps Sr., became infamous for picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers…