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Source: Vice News
WASHINGTON A group of House Republicans is urging their members to pressure Amazon to resume selling a set of controversial gay conversion therapy books, after the platform announced this month it would no longer carry works by the father of conversion therapy.
The Republican Study Committee, a conservative caucus that includes more than 70% of all GOP House members, issued a handout during a private meeting in the Capitol Wednesday asking members to contact Amazon with concerns about what they referred to as Amazon censorship.
Amazon removed books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist who is credited with originating gay conversion therapy, a debunked and in some cases illegal pseudoscientific method of trying to turn gay people straight.
Nonetheless, the Republicans want to lobby to get his books such as A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality and Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality back in circulation.
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