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.
They can’t end Christianity. What they are looking for is a way to take our kids away from us
Children can be so easily tricked and manipulated by queers and their pervert fellow travelers, it’s not funny.
Bump!
I think one of the reasons so many reprehensible and deviant behaviors have become ‘mainstream’ is because those that hold traditional (normal) or Biblical beliefs haven’t been willing to speak the ugly truth about homosexual sex. It is unnatural (that link demonstrates in detail why) and goes against the body’s normal healthy functioning.
The Designer knew what He was doing and warned against deviating from the original bodily functions of that design. Those promoting this ‘lifestyle’ are in full rebellion against their Creator. They want to do what is right in their own eyes and follow their own lusts. It must be a horrible existence to try to do away with the conscience God gave them and jump into the deep end of depravity. It does explain their vehement hatred towards anyone attempting to reach them with the truth in love. However, they can’t argue away their conscience, no matter how hard they try to justify their perversions.
The worst thing that can happen to any human being is to fight the Lord for so long that He allows them to be turned over to a reprobate mind.
Even if you consider this therepy as being the wrong choice, are not the parents still in charge of the child’s development until they turn 18?
You gotta love how the libs keep taking away any and all parental rights and they strive to give that power tot he state.
I wonder how would Barry feel about two gay parents sending their straight child to “LGBTQPRSXYZ conversion therepy” because they don’t want their child to be straight and/or “cis-gingered”?
Another method the regime of hate seeks to destroy America.
Another method the regime of hate seeks to destroy America.
What xzins said, and an off-topic ping to all lists.
“Questioning”
Because “Questioning” is now, apparently, some kind of innate sexual orientation.
Don’t discriminate against me! I am a person of color. Yes, I was born a Caucasian female, but I identify with another race. (I don’t know which one yet.) Don’t try to talk me out of it either. It’s who I am. I was born this way. You must accept me as a person of color.
/s
The phrase “normal family” is now hate speech?
“Questioning” because it’s a recruitment tool.
The let the ‘questioners’ be a part of their acronym, and then hope they graduate to a ‘real’ letter later on.
Sort of like letting high schoolers do part of army basic training in the summer of their junior year in high school. A recruiting tool that points them in a certain direction.
Can anyone say, with a straight face, that Barack 0bama isn’t homosexual?
Yep. Is this really the America I grew up in???
This is much the fault of Obama himself and his regime, but past republicans have a lot of blood on their hands for their judicial picks that have brought us along this pathway.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler
LGBTQ+, short for LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ?
Uh, duh.
BINGO!
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