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04/05/2019

Can We Come Together?

How Americans are trying to talk across the divide

Civility is a nice sentiment — but it's harder to put into practice.

Take a contentious debate last year in the Maine House of Representatives over a proposal to ban conversion therapy — a discredited treatment designed to make gay people straight.

Republican state Rep. Roger Reed stood up to oppose the conversion therapy ban, calling it an attempt to "legitimize... unnatural inclinations."

Please select this link to read the complete article from National Public Radio (NPR).

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