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.
It would be fun to watch the liberals go ballistic if some Republican were to submit a bill banning Obama supporters from having children. Never happen,though. Just a fantasy.
Think of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by God.
Only ten people were pure enough to be saved.
“...let alone a year shy of 70!”
Me, too. Funny how there’s an awful lot of up-hill in these down-hill years.
“”””They rather Americans encourage their kids in behavior that ends in death.””””
No. This is the progressive way of scaring parents off of parenting and letting the federal government step in and take over.
Im finding I just keep getting better!
There a new dictator in town: Sodom Hussein Obama
How is this any of his business? How is it the business of any special interest group which promotes deviant behavior?
History repeats itself. It always does. It won't be long (because of the teachers union and their attack on the kids) that we'll reach that holy number again and God will have some cleaning up to do.
There's a really good homo plague on the way right now, because I can sense it. I can smell it coming. There's no doubt in my mind. Liberal Babylon is about to be exposed. Nothing will be hidden. Everything will be revealed.
Bingo!
Just for that, I’m giving you three minutes of hate!
The GOPe better not pass something like that
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“We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth.”
Okay - I’m confused. What is “queer” if not gay or lesbian?
Yet more proof that Obama exists only as Jarrett's mouthpiece.
“One has to pull the fingers back from the keyboard, and take a deep breath before continuing to even try to calmly describe what is happening to America.”
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Yes. Two or three breaths even.
It is important to the Gay Agenda not just to mouth support, but to be seen actually doing their bidding. Jarret knows this and her feelings of self-worth are dependent on the approval of homosexuals.
That, and the true emperor of this country has stepped out from behind the curtain.
The slavery of the Old South is coming to be seen as small potatoes compared to that imposed by these modern Federal overseers.
“We’ve come to a place where we’re actually encouraging mental illness in our children, let alone perversion and sin.
How did we get here?”
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The counterculture of the sixties, through political activism, has assumed the reigns of power. They are marginalizing mainstream culture in much the same way the counterculture was originally marginalized.
So much has been accomplished by the universities and secondary and primary school education. Then there’s the MSM...
And that is, after all, the second "secret" part of their ultimate agenda. They will simply eliminate their opposition a la Ayers/Weather Underground plans for the elimination of 25 million Americans. They would already be doing it today if they thought they could get away with it sans a massive revolt. They're not quite ready for that yet.
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