www.prophecynewswatch.com In a case with long-term ramifications for the United States, Maltese Christian Matthew Grech has been charged with violating the Mediterranean country’s so-called “conversion therapy” ban for simply sharing his personal testimony of Christian conversion from an LGBT lifestyle in a broadcast interview. After three years of litigious persecution, the verdict in Grech’s case was postponed on Thursday at the last minute, and for the second time.
Grech was accused in 2022 of “advertising conversion practices” under a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” the Maltese legislature passed in 2016. The sweeping law targets not only discredited treatments like shock therapy, but “any treatment, practice or sustained effort that aims to change, repress and, or eliminate a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and, or gender expression.” Such language would prohibit even talk therapy between a counselor and a willing client; indeed, “counseling ban” would be a more accurate and relevant description.
In this case, a prohibition in the law against advertising for “conversion therapy” has been used to target Grech for simply sharing his personal testimony of Christian conversion, in an interview on the free-speech platform PMnews Malta. Grech formerly lived a homosexual lifestyle, but he left that lifestyle behind (without therapy) after becoming a born-again Christian. In the interview, Grech rejected the very term “conversion therapy” as a misclassification of the true nature of homosexuality.
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