Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Brian Kingston on .
- MLA
- Mr Brian Kingston
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 22 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5740843
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I assure the Member that we are very focused on the wording in his Bill, and that is what we find problems with. He has set a very low threshold for those three new offences, which could mean that someone could reflect on what parents, teachers, youth workers, ministers, pastors — people who are trying to provide genuine support — have said and conclude, "Actually, they were trying to give me instruction or to suppress what I said. They were not agreeing with me; they were not just nodding and saying, 'Yes, you are right'". That is because of the wording in the Bill. That is the problem that we have.
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