There was so many groups who submitted from faith-based organisations who did such a great job, and I'm just going to read my favourite two, because I thought they did such an amazing job of reconciling some of the real tensions between the faith community and the rainbow community that came out through our submissions process. One in particular reads: "We offer the submission with painful awareness that a founding principle of our faith that we treat others as we would have them treat us has been neglected. We see conversion therapy practices have been conceived to serve a narrow understanding of a person's identity that are at odds with the teachings of Jesus. We believe that well-crafted legislation to ban conversion therapy will help eradicate these neglectful and abusive practices in Aotearoa New Zealand." The last one I would like to mention comes from St Martha's Anglican Church in Dunedin: "We do not believe that practicing conversion therapy is to love others. Especially when it is well known that almost half of the same/both-sex attracted … [people] consider suicide". 