The Christian Institute is urging the Government to protect religious freedom after a debate on conversion therapy in Parliament.
Prayer was mentioned several times in the debate, which was held in response to a petition demanding that the Government criminalise conversion therapy and make it illegal to send people overseas for it. The petition was signed over 256,000 times.
Dame Angela Eagle said: "Being told by faith leaders or your family that you are sinful, evil, and disordered for being yourself creates self-loathing and trauma that only the strongest can survive.
"Being told to pray harder to change and to question your innermost feelings and thoughts, and being taught to hate yourself—none of that should be legal.
"Conversion therapy certainly causes untold damage and trauma for those who encounter it. CT.
