Posted on 05/19/2015 1:34:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The push to end so-called “conversion therapy” against homosexuality is expected to gear up Tuesday with the introduction of a House bill to ban the therapy nationally.
The bill comes a few weeks before a consumer fraud lawsuit described as a “David and Goliath” battle over the therapy begins in New Jersey, and in the wake of a request for a federal probe into whether the therapy’s marketing and practices are “deceptive” and “dangerous.”
Opponents of sexual orientation change efforts, such as Reps. Ted W. Lieu and Jackie Speier, both California Democrats, say being homosexual is not a disorder or illness, and efforts to change one’s sexual orientation are wrong and harmful.
Supporters of such therapy counter that it has helped many people successfully reduce or eliminate their unwanted same-sex attractions, and it’s wrong to trample people’s rights to seek the counseling of their choice.
Mr. Lieu’s new bill, the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, was prepared after President Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said the White House supported a national ban on “conversion” therapy for minors.
“I am ecstatic that the leader of the free world has called for an end to gay ‘conversion’ therapy. And I commend President Obama for recognizing ‘reparative’ therapy for the crappery that it is,” Mr. Lieu told a reporter for Frontiers Media on Monday.
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Then all efforts to fix crazy must also be banned.
What therapy? If you are a man, change your decision to have sex with other men. There, done.
i’m not gay
Yowza to #1!
This is ridiculous but we are in the age of ridiculous.
We shall see if the Republicans can stand against such nonsense. At minimum they need to insist that if they ban orientation conversion therapy they need to also ban sex change operations and therapies. That will make the left squirm.
Genesis 19: 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.”
I’m happy and surprisingly carefree.
I’m not a SODOMITE.
So-called “gays” are among the unhappiest people on earth. They think that if only everyone accepted and celebrated them, all would change.
Did someone here say you were?
The conversion therapy is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is what is at stake here.
No bedroom pictures. Keep them to yourself.
But aren’t they allowed to try to reduce the tumult in their inner lives over experiencing disruptive same-sex drive?
no but i partook in the “therapy” anyway.
Is that referring to indoctrination to acceptance of a gay life style for children by government and the teacher’s union?
But they are going to want to legalize anti-gay conversion therapy
RE: Yowza to #1!
To each his own, I’ll take #3 (I’m glad we don’t have to fight for it :)
So it is also wrong for gays to try and recruit heterosexuals to the gay lifestyle?
Thank you.
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