A Virginia-based group is committing consumer fraud by offering services it claims can convert people from gay to straight – deceptive practices that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must stop, according to a federal complaint the Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights groups filed with the FTC today.

The hardline groups promoting ‘religious freedom restoration acts’ to justify anti-gay discrimination.

A gay-to-straight “conversion therapy” provider found by a New Jersey jury to have violated the state’s consumer fraud protections will permanently cease operations and dissolve its corporate entity as part of a settlement that precludes an appeal of a jury’s verdict in the landmark lawsuit.

Justice Tom Parker derided federal judiciary and suggested that Alabama should defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision.