Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 15 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5706421
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I begin with what should unite every Member of the House: abuse, degrading behaviour, humiliation and coercion are always wrong. The issue at hand, however, is not whether those things are wrong but whether the Bill is right. Supporting the objective does not require us to support the Bill. We are here to decide not whether abuse is wrong but whether the Bill is —.
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