Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill explicitly targets Christian sexual ethics and places “unjustifiable limits” on fundamental rights and freedoms, an Australian law firm has said. In a report (pdf) published by the Coalition Against Unsafe Sexual Education (CAUSE), the Human Rights Law Alliance, a conservative non-for-profit law firm, analysed 8 sections of Victoria’s Human Rights Charter which the conversion therapy bill potentially breaches. The sections of the Charter analysed include: Recognition and Equality before the Law, Protection from Torture and Cruelty, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Freedom of Movement, Privacy and Reputation, Freedom of Thought, Conscience, Religion and Belief, Cultural Rights, Freedom of Expression, and Protection of Families and Children. For example, under the bill “unequal protection” will be given to those who espouse “gender transition treatments” over those who promote “a single controversial practice in relation to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity,” John Steenhof, principal lawyer of the Human …