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.
Just the words “Ban Parents” should have the nation up in arms.
POST OF THE YEAR!!!
THANK YOU. I think a LOT of us needed THAT!!
Say Amen Somebody!
This kind of stuff is going to cause our society to completely unravel, because Americans will not tolerate it. That may be its ultimate purpose.
Proof it’s getting crowed under the rock.
5.56mm
obozo is pure evil and his daddy is satan, but he is not the antichrist.
Thanks! It is catchy, strange how that song never became a bigger hit than it did.
Unusual, isn’t it?
What’s your take on it? I don’t know how those petitions are supposed to work.
Whose kids are they Obammy?
The state’s or the parents?
IMO, maybe they had a rush of LBGTQ-ers and some dyed-in-the-wool progressives sign it at first, then within a couple of days the rate of new signatures may have abruptl dropped to next to nothing.
Only for the first 3.5 years, which oboma did. It's the second 3.5 years where he shows the world who he really is......and oboma is doing just that. He's setting the world on fire, and enforcing every vile sin in the books - and he's doing right out in plain sight.
Dude, you're old!
yewbetcha!!
Joe Tex had a lot more going for him than the vast majority of his peers
Yep. It's been happening for quite some time. The destruction of values that are derivatives of the Christian faith. These values are being wiped out of our cultural and a societal value systems. Churches have fallen, government and fallen. And there's a void where those values used to be and two parties (primarily) are trying to fill that void...the far left and Islam. Who will win?
I’m still listening to the Joe Tex “channel” on Youtube! Thank you!
“...strange how that song never became a bigger hit...”
There was some awfully good music in those years. I miss it.
Takes on to know one.
forty years ago I would have sworn I probably would never reach forty ...let alone a year shy of 70!
Freegards!
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