It was difficult for members of the select committee to hear evidence for and against the bill. Some of us are members of rainbow communities and all of us either have rainbow family members or friends. The stories we heard stirred memories for many of us. For instance, I recall asking submitters from within my own faith community how we could come to a better appreciation of how sexuality, gender, and faith go to making up a whole person who deserves love, their acceptance, and their pastoral care, similar to the way that I live my life. Their response was that my happiness would be transitory if I continue this way, that they were looking for restorative therapy, and no they weren't going to call it conversion therapy because I had, it would seem, been converted from the way that I was born to another way. They prayed that I would be restored to what God wants me to be. This would follow the natural law.