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Anything, im sorry that so many have interpreted this religious rejection by christians as gods rejection. im sorry so many have walked away from their faith and chosen to end their lives. no matter how you look at it for their use of conversion therapy, thats the idea that somebody can change their sexual orientation through therapy. now, the american psychological association denounced this use of therapy, at which point they subsequently, exodus international, they started to backtrack a litt...

So-called conversion therapy they say? >> absolutely, suzanne. conversion therapy with evangelicals is very much out of vogue right now. you even saw exodus stop doing it. groups like exodus are much less part of the mainstream. and the big issue is here theres been a change in the last five to ten years with the issue of sexual orientation. for years we heard christians say sexual orientation was a chose, people chose to be gay. that is language you do not hear anymore. and its more or less dis...

So many people. >> its amazing because as we see in just some of the film there, we saw alan meeting with people that have been through the conversion therapy and meeting face to face, i think there are ten different men and women included in your special. what was that like for them? i mean, this had to be deeply emotional for these people who were kids or at some time in their young lives that were sent to him and he was offering some type of, you know, cure for their sexuality. >> thomas, it ...

Christie is trying to brand himself as a moderate on social issues and hes anything but. all you need to do is look at his record on marriage equality. hes anti-choice. he, he has actually refused tens of millions of federal dollars to support planned parenthood, resulting of a numb of them closing across the state. making it much harder for women to get health care. hes anything but a social moderate. >> not to mention the teacher bashing hes done on tape. >> im right across the river in bucks ...

Is what happened here. what went wrong, and more importantly, how do we fix it? how do we prevent our marines from doing this in the future. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us this morning and filling us in. we appreciate it. 33 minutes past the hour. time to check top stories. new jersey chris christie being blasted for not taking a harder stance against conversion therapy. christie says he does not believe in the practice, but says he hasnt made up his mind of signing a ban into ...

Oh, thats a debate. there are some very strong and i think important voices of gay republicans within the party. >> yes, they always astound me. >> the go proud republicans and others need to be expressed and to help move the party along in this argument. because, keep this in mind, there are gay members of -- >> of course there are. up on capitol hill there are gay staffers in both parties and they support members of the republican parties who vote regularly for gay rights. >> but you still hav...

Keep this in mind. there are gale members -- >> of course there are up up on capitol hill gale staffers in both parties and they support -- >> but you still have other national republicans, governor chris christie this week who refuses to take a position on a piece of legislation on gay conversion therapy. >> whats the states involve? im a libertarian. why would the state ever against involved in conversion therapy one way or the other? >> because its proven very, very damaging particularly to y...

There are some very strong and i think important voices of gay republicans within the party. >> yes, they always astound me. >> the go proud republicans and others need to be expressed and to help move the party along in this argument. because, keep this in mind, there are gay members of -- >> of course there are. up on capitol hill there are gay staffers in both parties and they support members of the republican parties who vote regularly for gay rights. >> but you still have other national rep...

Abused by the dogs. >> dog bears. >> bill: isnt the bear bigger than the dog? >> i would think the dog would get -- >> bill: right. >> the lemg later they know best. what gals me is last year governor brown rejected a law saying kids had to wear helmet while skiing or criminal penalty for parents. you cant have a law for everything. >> bill: we do have law. >> this year he signed 876. >> one of the most controversial of these laws is that if you are a therapist, licensed -- you cant try to convi...

Abused by the dogs. >> dog bears. >> bill: isnt the bear bigger than the dog? >> i would think the dog would get -- >> bill: right. >> the lemg later they know best. what gals me is last year governor brown rejected a law saying kids had to wear helmet while skiing or criminal penalty for parents. you cant have a law for everything. >> bill: we do have law. >> this year he signed 876. >> one of the most controversial of these laws is that if you are a therapist, licensed -- you cant try to convi...