On a positive note, 75 Rabbis and Rabbaniyot have signed a public letter warning against treatments that claim to change a person’s sexual orientation. The letter states that “It is difficult to imagine a greater denigration…than the degradation and suppression that bring many victims of so-called conversion therapy to the brink of suicide, self-harm, or to actually take their own lives.” The rabbis call for acceptance and inclusion of people who are attracted to their own sex. While stressing that they are not dismissing the Torah prohibition on male same-sex intercourse but, as the letter goes on to state “We must accept people who are attracted to their own sex with love. This is not encouragement of sin, but fulfillment of the commandment ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Orthodox Judaism Rejects Conversion Therapy
