The same day that public hearings begin on Senate Bill 184, which seeks to ban conversion therapies, one of the authors confessed that he uses Capitol security to get out of the building because of threats he has received “in the name of God “.
In an interview with WIAC-740, independent Senator José Vargas Vidot stated that “cars have stopped to call me insults, I have received threats.”
“I have to get out of the Senate building, bone from the Capitol, to my car with escorts because they have stopped in the name of God to throw me,” he stated in the interview.
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Vargas Vidot says that many have used this project to sow fear and suspicion, and that it does not seek to impose a way of parenting with their children.
Public hearings on this project begin today and some of the depositors on the list are the College of Social Work Professionals, the Association of Psychology of Puerto Rico, el Broad Committee for Equity Research, the American Union of Civil Liberties as well as Amnesty International.
It was also reported that Pastor René Pereira and priest Carlos Pérez will be attending.
The legislative measure, presented by the senators José Vargas Vidot, Rafael Bernabe and senators Ana Irma Rivera Lassen i Maria de Lourdes Santiago, Proposes to amend several articles of the Law of Mental Health of Puerto Rico, as well as of the Law for the Security, Well-being and Protection of Minors. The spokesman of the Senate, Javier Aponte Dalmau leaves like coauthor of the piece and already the Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has stated that he opposes conversion “therapies”.