I find it appalling that a Utah law exists making it a felony to subject an individual to treatment in order to change his belief in God, yet the Utah Legislature failed to pass a law which would offer the same measure of protection to children from the destructive effects of conversion therapy.
Title 17, Chapter 43, Part 3 of the Utah Code states: “It is a felony to give psychiatric treatment, nonvocational mental health counseling, case-finding testing, psychoanalysis, drugs, shock treatment, lobotomy, or surgery to any individual for the purpose of changing his concept of, belief about, or faith in God.