Its fear is that while converts from abroad are fairly few, tens of thousands of foreign workers living in Israel will line up for the supposedly easier (in fact, still quite demanding) forms of conversion, get their passports and stay permanently.
Shubb wrote, "Even if SB 1172 is characterized as primarily aimed at regulating conduct, it also extends to forms of (conversion therapy) that utilize speech and, at a minimum, regulates conduct that has an incidental effect on speech".
But activists say some hospitals and doctors continue to prescribe drugs and use electroshock therapy as a bogus form of "conversion therapy".
"Rebirth" has often been identified with a definite, temporally datable form of "conversion," especially in the pietistic and revival type of Christianity.
According to the LGBT rights group Stonewall, a 2009 survey of 1,300 mental health professionals in the UK found that more than 200 had offered some form of conversion therapy to patients referred to them by GPs and NHS practices.
But gays in Israel who contacted Jonah say they were referred to some of the 20 to 30 licenced psychologists and social workers, and 50 non-licensed therapists, who practice some form of conversion therapy in Israel.
Samantha Ames, staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), said research indicated that as many as a third of LGBT people have undergone some form of conversion therapy – from seeing licensed practitioners, talking with church leaders or visiting religious camps to extreme versions which can include nausea-inducing drugs, needles in fingers and "orgasmic reconditioning".
The task confronting people condemned to modernity is "not so much to escape this fate", Paz wrote, "as to discover a less inhuman form of conversion", that "does not bring duplicity and split personalities in its wake, as is the case today".
One of the first unwilled thoughts I have on landing in a new place is, "What would it be like to die here?" or, asked another way, "What would it be like to live here?" Switching languages is a form of conversion.
These experiences resulted in several new techniques, concepts and products that gave birth to new research projects and proposals that revisited this form of conversion of such type of renewable energy.
