Michael Meyers. Valerie Jarret. Separated at birth?
Posted on 04/09/2015 6:57:12 AM PDT by xzins
President Barack Obama, through a statement posted Wednesday night on the White House website by adviser Valerie Jarrett, backed legislation that would ban parents from having their children counseled not to be what Jarrett called "LGBTQ+".
“As part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, this Administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors,” Jarrett said in the White House statement.
“Conversion therapy generally refers to any practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” said the statement. “Often, this practice is used on minors, who lack the legal authority to make their own medical and mental health decisions. We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth.”
Jarrett conceded in her statement that an act of Congress would be needed to pass a national law that prohibited parents from having their children be counselled to be heterosexual rather than what she called “LGBTQ+."
“While a national ban would require congressional action, we are hopeful that the clarity of the evidence combined with the actions taken by these states will lead to broader action that this Administration would support,” Jarrett said.
She suggested that parents disserve their children when they do not accept them as “LGTQ+.”
“Family relationships are pivotal to the physical and emotional well-being of any child, including LGBTQ+ youth,” she said. “Every child needs love, support, and acceptance to grow, dream, and thrive. LGBTQ+ youth with supportive families and friends show greater well-being, better general health, and significantly decreased risk for suicide, depression, and substance abuse.
“Countless families and guardians across the country proudly support their LGBTQ+ children,” Jarrett said. “Too many LGBTQ+ youth, however, lack this support system, which can have devastating consequences. Negative family reactions to LGBTQ+ youth can be perceived as rejection by children, often contributing to serious health issues and inhibiting a child’s development and well-being. And when it comes to LGBTQ+ youth, some actions by family and caregivers can be harmful, despite even the best intentions.
“This Administration,” she said, “believes that young people should be valued for who they are, no matter what they look like, where they’re from, the gender with which they identify, or who they love.”
Jarrett’s statement was preceded by a quotation from President Barack Obama describing a “young man” who is “wrestling with a secret.”
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us -- on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.”
Jarrett’s statement was posted in response to a petition posted on the White House website in January that called for a “law to ban all LGBTQ+ conversion therapy." The petition had approximately 120,000 signers.
Good luck with that one Barky.
Obama will make that disappear in the stroke of an executive pen and the misreporting of the media.
What a piece of human garbage.
That graphic is totally wrong.
In the private sector, ValJ will be making millions.
Just like everybody else who rotates between DC govt jobs and DC jobs where you get paid to provide “access”.
Or illegal to be White, Christian, or Male.
Eugenics. Oboma, though he believes he's GOD, is far from being at the top of the policy food chain.
It decreases the population for one. Secondly, these people are defective. Those who tend toward homosexuality are encouraged to come out, because it allows them to find mates with the same defect a lot easier. The mates cannot breed, and the defective mental illness is eliminated by two. Two homosexuals become none.
The homosexuals and their supporters aren't aware of why they're being encouraged to show themselves. In the end, it does rid the world of those tending toward this type of mental illness. They even have a 20 year shorter life span, which is an added benefit. Add their disease and suicides, and the population decreases itself. If the worlds control freaks could just lobotomize them, or just shoot them, they would.
For the U.S. democrat party alone, it's a way to temporarily increase their voting base and donations, so they're all for it.
The same logic applies to abortion. For the control freaks at the very top, it's a way to rid the world of the disabled, the poor and the "undesirable" races.
CWII...don’t know it???
Obama and his pal Val will be working extra hard doing the work of Satan these last two years. I’m certain of it.
No. We're talking about LEGGOMYEGGO.
FMCDH(BITS)
“He may actually be the Antichrist.”
Not slick or smart enough. The real deal will fool almost everyone.
I was checking to see if this was satire...
Suppose part of the ‘foolie’ consists of pretending to be dumb and inept?
"My hot Pakistani boyfriend is behind me all the way..."
Not satire...Go here for a copy of the White House web page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3277413/posts?page=62#62
A: He's priming the pump...
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