On the same day that public hearings begin on Senate Bill 184, which seeks to ban conversion therapies, one of the authors testified that he uses the security of the Chapter to leave the building because of threats he received “in the name of God.” ”.
In an interview with WIAC-740, independent senator José Vargas Vidot said that “cars stopped to shout insults at me, I received threats.”
“I have to go from the Senate building, that is, from the Capitol, to my escort car because they stopped in the name of God to throw me,” he said in the interview.
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Vargas Vidot assures that many have used this project to sow fear and suspicion and that he is not trying to impose a way of raising parents with their children.
Public hearings on this project begin today and some of the representatives listed are College of Social Work Professionals, Puerto Rico Psychological Association, Broad Equity Monitoring Committee, Union for American Civil Liberties as well as International amnesty.
It was also reported that Pastor René Pereira and priest Carlos Pérez will participate.
Legislative measure, presented by senators Jose Vargas Vidot, Rafael Bernabe and senators Ana Irma Rivera Lassén Yes Mary of Lourdes Santiago, proposes to amend several articles of the Puerto Rico Mental Health Act, as well as the Child Safety, Welfare and Protection Act. Senate spokesman Javier Aponte Dalmau is already co-authoring the play Governor Pedro Pierluisi he said he opposed conversion “therapies.”