The U.S. Metric Association, a group based in California that advocates conversion to the metric system, has tallied numerous metric signs around the country, most near the borders with Canada and Mexico.
A tiny poster of Romero, advocating conversion and reconciliation, not the slain archbishop's usual themes, was on a back wall.
When Pope John Paul II visited India last November, he added fuel to the controversy by also advocating conversions.
During the time DeVos was listed as an officer, the Prince Foundation gave $5.1 million to Focus on the Family, an advocate of "conversion therapy" — counseling designed to make gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer people become straight.
Every advocate for conversion therapy for trans children and every dropped lawsuit in support of trans students' rights ends up sacrificing the childhood of more trans children.
That includes Focus on the Family, which has been a vocal advocate for conversion therapy a "treatment" for gay people that has been universally panned by relevant expert communities.
That includes Focus on the Family, which has been a vocal advocate for conversion therapy a "treatment" for gay people that has been universally panned by relevant expert communities.
Pence is also a forceful opponent of marriage equality and a strong advocate of conversion therapy, which is outlawed in several states, and he even proposed to fund it with taxpayer dollars.
Often, those of us who advocate against conversion therapy struggle to find survivors to speak out about their experiences because people subjected to the therapy are either too emotionally damaged to bear it, or worse yet, they did not survive.
