Ex gay therapy harmful - NSW parliament

Alex Greenwich, gay independent of New South Wales, has put up a motion in the NSW parliament condemning Ex-gay therapies. His motion was supported by the parliament.

Today the Legislative Assembly supported a motion introduced by the Member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, stating that therapies attempting to turn gay people straight do not work, stigmatise gay men and lesbians and are fundamentally damaging to mental health. 

“Reparative therapy has been condemned by Australian, New Zealand and US psychological organisations, yet at least 10 organisations still practice it in Australia,” Mr Greenwich said. 

“Embedded in its theory is the notion that homosexuality is somehow a disorder that can be “fixed” and an immorality that must be healed,” Mr Greenwich said. 

“Many who have experienced reparative therapy develop psychological conditions including obsessive addictive behaviours, depression and suicidal ideation.” 

“Today the NSW Parliament delivered a strong statement that there is nothing wrong or abnormal about being gay. I hope this message gets to vulnerable and isolated LGBTI youth in rural and regional NSW” more

I was a bit confused as to what all this meant, I mean WTF is the point of making a motion in parliament and parliament agreeing on it? Interestingly, it paves the way to deal with those reparative therapies that currently exist here.  

Mr Greenwich will now refer the Hansard of the debate to the Health Care Complaint Committee inquiry into the promotion of false or misleading health related information or practices. more