Posted on 11/19/2016 11:20:21 AM PST by Steelfish
Gays Can Be Reformed, Just Like Arsonists, Trump’s New Domestic Policy Adviser Has Said
By Amy Ellis Nutt November 19
Ken Blackwell, tapped last week by President-elect Donald Trump to head domestic policy during the businessman's transition to the White House, has made anti-LGBT statements for years. Among them: Homosexuality is a sin, and gay people, just like petty thieves and fire-setters, can be rehabilitated.
The Ohio politician has long endorsed a controversial mental health practice known as conversion therapy or reparative therapy. The goal is to cure a person of his or her homosexuality, and in the case of transgender people, to reaffirm the gender into which they were born.
In the past, treatments have included everything from inducing vomiting to using mild electric shock while patients viewed homoerotic images. Since the 1990s, however, the therapy has been denounced by many medical and scientific societies and even outlawed in a handful of states. In 2015, the Obama administration expressed disapproval of the practice after Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old transgender teen in Ohio, took her life after being forced by her parents to undergo conversion counseling. While Blackwell will be overseeing a wide swath of domestic issues facing the new administration, one big question facing the LGBT community is whether a Trump administration will promote the discredited therapy.
Two years ago, in a radio interview with Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, which has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Blackwell appeared to blame the deaths of six individuals in a 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista, Calif., on the LGBT rights movement, saying it undermined "natural marriage.
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Didn’t the Washington Post used to be an actual newspaper?
Great post. Reparative therapy long overdue.
Like most people with a mental disorder, homosexuals can be treated and healed.
There was a time before PC when the American Psychiatric Association regarded homosexuality as a mental disorder.
It. Just. Keeps. Getting. Better.
In their eyes, simply disagreeing with them makes one anti-LGBT.
They are not reporting the extremely high suicide rate among practicing homosexuals. Emotional imbalance is substantially increased when onanism - self love - is frustrated by a partner similarly afflicted. Anxiety and stress disorders are especially high among practicing homosexuals.
Good. And they should be
What a PERFECT gif !
What is wrong with rehab. It simply corrects aberrant behavior. But see, a rehabbed gay is no longer a victim and a member of an oppressed class, thus of no use to liberals.
Absolutely.
I don’t know if I would go there. I don’t support govt. sanctioning of gay marriage but the government should stay out of the sexual orientation war.
Gays Can Be Reformed, Just Like Arsonists, -——HUH?
Like most people with a mental disorder, homosexuals can be treated and healed.
Just like pedophiles ???
Suspect recidivist rates are high?
I know a guy who was a leather wearing gay when he was a young man. I’ve never seen anybody work harder to keep a marriage together. (His wife has a drug problem.) Now, he’s all about his kids.
To paraphrase a quote: in an era of deception and deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act’ loosely paraphrased from Ayn Rand.
Christie as governor of NJ made it a crime for any healthcare provider to offer any help that for a homosexual who want to rid himself of this aberrant behavior. Fatty said you’re born queer, so deal with it.
WOW, the leftist media is really going full monty on propaganda derangement. They’re just throwing everything out there to try to get something to stick. The absurdity is actually kind of entertaining.
Most if not all homosexuals suffered some gorm of sexual abuse. In fact NAMBLA’s motto is “After eight is too late”.....
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