An exchange between two men who have felt same-sex attraction but have sharply different takes on it highlighted nearly three hours of testimony about a proposed ban on conversion therapy at the Massachusetts State House.
Ken Williams, a California man who co-founded Changed, an organization of men and women who say they have left homosexuality, clashed with state Representative Jack Lewis (D-Framingham), a second-term legislator who used to run an organization dedicated to homosexual and transgender young people and is civilly married to a man.
Jay Barrett of West Haven, Connecticut is in the end stages of cystic fibrosis, but he had something he wanted to do before he dies: have some contact with President Donald Trump.
So his sister, a member of the city council of West Haven who describes herself as "100 percent Democrat," organized a social media and traditional media campaign to try to get it to happen.
