New Jersey’s ban on gay conversion, signed into law by Governor Chris Christie last year, has been upheld by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith said that the ban did not violate the free speech or religious rights of those who provide therapy to covert homosexual minors into heterosexuals.
The Third Circuit Court is the second in the country to uphold such a law, after a court in California did the same for a similar law in that state. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal to that ruling.
