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California Becomes First State In Nation To Ban ‘Gay Cure’ Therapy For Teens
NBCNews.com ^ | September 30, 2012 | James Eng

Posted on 09/30/2012 9:30:56 AM PDT by Steelfish

California Becomes First State In Nation To Ban ‘Gay Cure’ Therapy For Teens

California state Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, sponsored the bill to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay youth straight.

By James Eng, NBC News California has become the first state in the nation to ban therapy that tries to turn gay teens straight.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced Sunday that he has signed Senate Bill 1172, which prohibits children under age 18 from undergoing “sexual orientation change efforts.” The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, prohibits state-licensed therapists from engaging in these practices with minors.

"Governor Brown today reaffirmed what medical and mental health organizations have made clear: Efforts to change minors' sexual orientation are not therapy, they are the relics of prejudice and abuse that have inflicted untold harm on young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians," Clarissa Filgioun, board president of Equality California, said in a press release.

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, added: “Governor Brown has sent a powerful message of affirmation and support to LGBT youth and their families. This law will ensure that state-licensed therapists can no longer abuse their power to harm LGBT youth and propagate the dangerous and deadly lie that sexual orientation is an illness or disorder that can be ‘cured.’”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2sick4words; childabuse; heterosexualagenda; homosexualagenda; mentalhealth; moonbeam; quackery
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1 posted on 09/30/2012 9:31:03 AM PDT by Steelfish
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I say, equal rights for all. To match this law, there should also be a law that no straights can be “cured” by sex change operations that make them gay, or by any gay or transgender counseling!

Law is not a one way street, favoring only the pervs.


2 posted on 09/30/2012 9:37:27 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Steelfish

Then just take them across the border to Nevada for the treatment.


3 posted on 09/30/2012 9:37:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Steelfish

Of course....

Queers know that they must recruit since they don’t reproduce.


4 posted on 09/30/2012 9:38:53 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: circlecity

You see what you get when you let the Mexicans and homosexuals overrun your legislature ~


5 posted on 09/30/2012 9:39:14 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Steelfish

Nothing about a law suit?


6 posted on 09/30/2012 9:39:39 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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Wait, why the heck did they include “transgender”s? Most of them are straight. This would have nothing to do with whatever therapy they’re in.


7 posted on 09/30/2012 9:40:14 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Steelfish

Wow. That really says a lot about gay culture.

I can not for a single nano-moment believe such a law could ever be deemed legal.


8 posted on 09/30/2012 9:41:50 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
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To: Steelfish

Clearly an unconstitutional law. Free speech and free association v. the states need to regulate medical therapy. Unless the state is prepared to regulate all counseling done by private individuals as “therapy”, then this law is arbitrary.


9 posted on 09/30/2012 9:48:53 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Steelfish

Well isn’t that special....LIEberals must enforce their dogma thru rigid laws. So much for freedom of choice—unless it fits their own twisted ideology.


10 posted on 09/30/2012 9:50:22 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: muawiyah

Lazy interior decorators?


11 posted on 09/30/2012 9:53:22 AM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: Steelfish

If challenged in court this would lose. You cant ban it justbecause you do not like it. People want to leave homosexuality (known as same sex attraction to many) because they KNOW its wrong. Amazing how so many gays KNOW they are gay but the ones who KNOW its wrong apparently do not KNOW like the liberal lie-to-self types KNOW.


12 posted on 09/30/2012 9:57:49 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Steelfish

The War on Parents begins.


13 posted on 09/30/2012 10:00:21 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Steelfish
The California legislature has to be the most sexually obsessed legal body in the world. Maybe after the bankruptcy liquidators cart off all the desks, microphones and speaker podiums from the state assembly and senate buildings they'll realize there are bigger problems than deviant rights.
14 posted on 09/30/2012 10:01:28 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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After all the government money spent recruiting and brainwashing schoolkids into Queerworld, the Progressives don't want Bitter Clinger parents undoing their hard work.


15 posted on 09/30/2012 10:13:38 AM PDT by Iron Munro (US Embassies Come and Go But An Obama Apology Lasts Forever)
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To: Steelfish

How about this as an answer to Californication: Get reborn (by Jesus) and see your life turn around; there are plenty of former gays who are now born-again Christians who can testify..


16 posted on 09/30/2012 10:16:58 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Maybe after the bankruptcy liquidators cart off all the...

You're kidding right? You actually think the Feds are going to allow such a politically correct state as Kalifornia to bankrupt?

17 posted on 09/30/2012 10:25:57 AM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Steelfish
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity...
....for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

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...Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

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...he [God] gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

--ROMANS 1:24, 27b, 28b

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I hope God will have mercy on some of these young ones who are confused and are trying to escape this horrific delusion....

18 posted on 09/30/2012 10:28:24 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Iron Munro

I’ll tell you how they do it: reproductive concubinage. “Clinics” springing up in India to cater to gay “reproductive tourists” from Holland, Germany, USA, looking for a womb to rent.


19 posted on 09/30/2012 10:29:12 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.)
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To: Steelfish
2009 CDC estimates show that gay and bisexual men who comprise about 2% of the U.S. population account for 61% of new HIV infections. It’s also noteworthy that by ethnicity Black non-Hispanics which make up 12% of the population account for 44% of new infections. HIV is the 4th leading cause of death among Black men ages 25-44.
It’s reasonable to believe that a parent would discourage a child from this ‘lifestyle decision’ solely for the health implications and regardless of political ideology. In fact one might even suggest that those responsible for this legislation share culpability for the future mortality rates among the Black population.
20 posted on 09/30/2012 10:30:50 AM PDT by Roland
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