Last week, North Carolinian Democratic lawmakers filed The Mental Health Protection Act – a bill that would outlaw so-called “conversion” therapy that attempts to “cure” young people of being lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

This week, a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling and commissioned by Equality NC and the Campaign for Southern Equality reveals that a supermajority of Republicans (87 percent), Democrats (75 percent) and Independents (78 percent) support outlawing the therapy in young people.

Overall, 80 percent of all polled respondents said they think “conversion therapy” purporting to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be illegal when performed on someone under 18. That number went up when given more information about the specifics of conversion therapy. Read more via Progressive Pulse