Massive and horrible Christian persecution is coming to the West.
But God will Judge them that inflict punishment on His chosen ones. And it will be horrible for them.
Posted on 11/14/2014 3:56:45 PM PST by NYer
American activists against “reparative therapy” asked the UN Committee on Torture to define the practice as a form of torture and a violation of international law.
At issue is the treatment sought by persons who struggle with unwanted same-sex desires. Many therapists still offer the treatment to those who ask for it, even though professional organizations for the therapeutic community say same-sex desire is not a form of mental illness and discourage this kind of therapy.
There is a movement in the United States to ban all such therapy by law. Already, New Jersey and California have banned reparative therapy for minors and the National Center for Lesbian Rights is campaigning for a nationwide ban in the next five years. It was this group that went to Geneva this week.
The UN Committee on Torture is a treaty monitoring body that oversees implementation of the UN treaty against torture by countries that have ratified it. The same committee infamously scolded the Vatican earlier this year for Church teaching on abortion. One committee member, American Felice Gaer, said laws against abortion are a form of torture.
The convention banning torture defines torture as the deliberate infliction of physical or mental pain by a “public official” in order to elicit a confession or as a form of punishment or reprisal.
The United States is on the dock this week. Under the practice adopted by the committee, all and sundry groups get a chance to file grievances in the form of “shadow reports” to the committee. Oftentimes, the committee uncritically adopts the accusations, and even legal theories, put forth in these reports when they question reporting governments.
On Tuesday, the activists met privately with the committee and told them horror stories about the alleged torture that some have undergone in “reparative therapy.”
One witness was a young man named Samuel Brinton who has become a cause celeb since being filmed in a U.S. documentary some years back. Brinton says his parents sent him to a therapist that tied his hands down and put blocks of ice on his upturned palms, strapped copper wire to his arms and stuck electrodes into his fingers in order to torture him whenever he became aroused at the male form. These types of charges are common among activists trying to ban “reparative therapy.”
Brinton’s veracity has been brought into question not by the religious right but by important LGBT figures including Wayne Besen, former chief spokesman for the LGBT Human Rights Campaign, who now runs a website called Truth Wins Out that is dedicated to uncovering what it considers to be the “anti-gay” lies among social conservatives and ex-gays.
Besen said he tried for a month to get to the bottom of the Brinton story and was not able to. He pressed Brinton for the name of the therapist who did this to him. Brinton said he couldn’t remember and that he does not have to prove his story. Besen therefore said the Brinton story is not verifiable and shouldn’t be used.
Even so, Brinton was in Geneva telling his story this week.
The US delegation received a number of questions related to these types of accusations. One questioner wanted to know what the US was doing to prosecute the practitioners of such therapy.
The final report of the committee will be released in the coming weeks and will likely make recommendations to curb “reparative therapy.”
Ping!
torture?...Please Princess!!!
Massive and horrible Christian persecution is coming to the West.
But God will Judge them that inflict punishment on His chosen ones. And it will be horrible for them.
“Torture” just isn’t what it was in the good old days. A constipated liberal thinks somebody is “torturing” them.
Yes but chemically castrating a young boy so he can not enter puberty because his lesbian or nutzo parents want a girl is not torture?
sodom and gomorrah, childs play compared to today perhaps
Sodomites and the United Nations... it figures—eccchh!
Having to listen to Gay activists is torture
Soon to be followed by a plea for Roman Polanski to be pardoned.
“In giving to the President and Senate a power to make treaties, the Constitution meant only to authorize them to carry into effect, by way of treaty, any powers they might constitutionally exercise.” —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
“Surely the President and Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way.” — Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Manual, 1812 .
“2. Insofar as Art. 2(11) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice provides for the military trial of civilian dependents accompanying the armed forces in foreign countries, it cannot be sustained as legislation which is “necessary and proper” to carry out obligations of the United States under international agreements made with those countries, since no agreement with a foreign nation can confer on Congress or any other branch of the Government power which is free from the restraints of the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Reid v. Covert, 1956 .
So just as with other misguided political UN lobbying groups like pro-gun control and Agenda 21 factions, pro-gay activists are pushing their agenda by wrongly trying to expand the federal government’s powers outside the framework of the Constitution.
Well, if shooting a thug is torture I guess we have to loosen up our definition.
Death to the apostastes and their Christian leaders, basically.
Who needs ISIS with gay ayatollahs?
So they want to insure that none among their sodomite lot ever recover that is just evil. But i suppose in the long run its a self correcting problem as its destined to lead to the dwindling extinction of their sinful lot.
I don’t really see how any of them have the right to make such an evil degree for all of them.
“The convention banning torture defines torture as the deliberate infliction of physical or mental pain by a “public official” in order to elicit a confession or as a form of punishment or reprisal.”
Forgive me but does this broad definition not necessarily include any and all forms of law enforcement period?
The global left are quite found of their abrtary and ultimately meaningless definitions. Their point is to be global dictators and declare that nothing is ok without their say so.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.