Posted on 05/18/2015 2:34:38 PM PDT by NYer
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Thomas Schmierer thought he was just a normal marriage and family therapist “flying under the radar” in Riverside, Calif.
But Schmierer’s work with clients who seek him out for therapy for their unwanted same-sex attraction landed him in the crosshairs of homosexual-rights groups.
The Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies for same-sex “marriage” and homosexual causes, wrote a letter to Psychology Today in February demanding that the magazine remove Schmierer from its professional referral service. The magazine complied, and it no longer accepts advertising from Schmierer, who says the listing is essential for his private practice, Vatican Values Counseling, to be competitive.
“Of course, there are financial consequences for me that I fear, but it’s more than just the money,” Schmierer told the Register. “What’s really sad is what can happen to the clients who need help. How horrible it is to have something you consider to be a sickness or illness, and you can’t receive healing.”
Schmierer said he asked himself, “Why is this happening to me?” But he is hardly alone. The homosexual lobby is aggressively attacking therapy for same-sex attraction, with the argument that such therapy harms people who identify themselves as homosexual and that it fills them with shame and increases their chances of depression, anxiety, drug use and suicide.
Organizations like the Human Rights Campaign are pushing legislation in at least 18 states to ban reparative therapy for minors. California, New Jersey and the District of Columbia have already passed laws that ban “gay-conversion therapy” for young people.
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IOW, it provokes a sense of guilt and the only way to circumvent this is to normalize that which is abnormal.
Catholic ping!
The abnormal desire is a symptom jut like the emotional problems. A symptom is not a cause. Even if it were (it isn’t) they can’t speak for everyone. To totally ban it is outrageously poking their nasties into other people’s business.
It would be like saying a cough is the cause of a runny nose.
And the strongest case against their position is that they think gender can be changed at will, just not sexual orientation. That makes no sense other than proof that they have an agenda they are pushing and no real interest in the truth.
Start filing lawsuits against the homosexual lobby.
Purpose: destroy traditional morality and increase the size of America’s latest victim group.
They can’t prove it’s genetic, so some larger percentage must be “environmental” (read “molestation”).
“They” don’t want it “fixed” because it screws up their recruitment efforts.
Naw, it's faggotry that does that.
Agreed. Better to feel like crap, for awhile, on this side of the grave and through prayer and Spiritual help (which will come through sincere prayer)to overcome the source of guilt and shame.
Because the alternative - having people slap you on the back and tell you all is well (even though you know inside you aren't) - and to not seek help and change - is an eternity in hell on the other side...
Exactly. It’s crazy.
And CLEARLY they reject THIS one ....
Are they HERE ?
Because if they are NO WHERE IN the chain of events ...
It's a choice.
homosexuals are asexual ... they cannot reproduce themselves .... they have to ..
wait for it ...
choose ..
a mate/donor/ whatever
and a natural, God ordained BIRTH happens without homosexual influence or input
WE HAVE TO FORCE THEM TO PROVE THEIR GENESIS ... AND IT MUST BE LOUD !
One would suppose from this that there would be no therapeutic approaches to pedophilia either. So are these as strenuously howled over by these self-sanctioned overseers?
As strong a positive response from the so-called Human Rights Campaign would be an even more certain indictment for their promotion of this perversion as well.
A Ban on Conversion Therapy for Minors passed out of a House committee but has not been called for a full House vote. It’s been sent back to the Rules Committee.
http://illinoisfamily.org/politics/bill-tracker/
Looks at the bills. So goes Illinois, so goes the nation.
Pray for Christians to stand against anti-family legislation and support pro-family legislation.
By that logic, AA should not assist alcoholics in refraining from using alcohol.
Are they going to try to ban treatment of all other mental illnesses too?
I would say yes with their motive being the creation of ever more Democrat voters.
Shows what a crock all the liberal statements over the years about not wanting the government to interfere in the doctor/patient (at least in regards to abortion) relationship were. Just like all the “tolerance” is going out the window now for those who don’t want to be in complicity with so-called gay marriage.
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