A gay “conversion therapy” group defending a first-of-its-kind consumer fraud suit will not be allowed to present expert testimony premised on the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder or is abnormal.

Hudson County Superior Court Judge Peter Bariso barred the testimony in Ferguson v. JONAH on the ground that regarding homosexuality as an illness is contrary to the overwhelming weight of scientific authority.

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