Kentucky GOP Rep With Gay Son Backs Ex-Gay Torture Ban: Being Gay “Can’t Be Fixed And Shouldn’t Be Fixed”

Louisville’s ABC News affiliate reports:

12th District Republican Senator, Alice Forgy Kerr, is a member of the conservative majority, not necessarily someone you’d expect to be behind a movement like Senate Bill 85. SB 85 would ban conversion therapy in Kentucky. “I think it’s religion gone bad”, said Senator Kerr. That coming from a Sunday school teacher and mother of two sons. She described her sons, “I have a 33-year-old straight father of three, husband to a school teacher in Lexington and I have my baby, who is 31, and he is gay.”

Her youngest came out to her while in college. Two years ago, her eyes were opened to the issue of conversion therapy when she watched the movie “Boy Erased”. It tells the story of a Baptist family who sends their son for therapy. “It can’t be fixed and it shouldn’t be fixed”, she said. “In my Christian faith, I am taught that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made, wonderfully made, and I believe that very strongly.”

In the second clip below, Ferr does call it “torture.”