January 15, 2019
"The arguments in the chamber that day when we got it passed became about one central thing and it was about protecting vulnerable people and children, which I know everyone in this body wants to do," said Assemblymember Burke, a member of the Assembly Committee on Children and Families, discussing his time in the Erie County Legislature where he helped pass a measure to ban conversion therapy during a debate on a bill to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with patients under the age of 18 (A.576).