Posted on 05/19/2015 1:34:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The push to end so-called “conversion therapy” against homosexuality is expected to gear up Tuesday with the introduction of a House bill to ban the therapy nationally.
The bill comes a few weeks before a consumer fraud lawsuit described as a “David and Goliath” battle over the therapy begins in New Jersey, and in the wake of a request for a federal probe into whether the therapy’s marketing and practices are “deceptive” and “dangerous.”
Opponents of sexual orientation change efforts, such as Reps. Ted W. Lieu and Jackie Speier, both California Democrats, say being homosexual is not a disorder or illness, and efforts to change one’s sexual orientation are wrong and harmful.
Supporters of such therapy counter that it has helped many people successfully reduce or eliminate their unwanted same-sex attractions, and it’s wrong to trample people’s rights to seek the counseling of their choice.
Mr. Lieu’s new bill, the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, was prepared after President Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said the White House supported a national ban on “conversion” therapy for minors.
“I am ecstatic that the leader of the free world has called for an end to gay ‘conversion’ therapy. And I commend President Obama for recognizing ‘reparative’ therapy for the crappery that it is,” Mr. Lieu told a reporter for Frontiers Media on Monday.
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Got that right.
Does Congress really need to spend time on something that affects 2% of the population at this time? Geesh, do they have nothing more important to deal with. What a bunch of idiots we have running the country. It’s just embarrassing.
“Absurdistan” truly has a lot of support from the American people and will henceforth.
But it’s not “wrong and harmful” to surgically remove a man’s penis or glue one on to a woman?
Idiots nominated and elected by their idiot electorate
When was the last time a serious presidential candidate said anything publicly about the gospel?
I don’t think it has been in my lifetime... until Cruz. Talk about a voice in the wilderness.
We should stop getting hot and bothered about politics long enough to bow down and fear God.
I think the last one to do so was Ronald Reagan.
I believe the last to do so was Senator Helms, when an "R-NC" meant something.
Why, of cuss not... they ought to be subjected to the same scrutiny. Bet that is one unhappy crowd.
Very good point. I think we can get hot and bothered about politics AND bow down and fear God. We just have to be careful that we keep the right balance and perspective lest we become exactly like the things and people we speak against.
Gays in the women's fashion industry (think Dolce & Gabbana) are forever dressing and undressing attractive females. It doesn't get to them.
Tangentially perhaps. And the same with Jimmy Carter, for that matter.
Cruz hit it square on the nose. This ain’t no helpful civic religion, this ain’t no born again experience. This is Redemption with capital R.
Another assault on free speech under the guise of protecting the fags.
Yes, to that I do agree. And the bigger problem is that marriage is not worth much to quite a bit of the population, cohabitation and all that bit.
That may be true. I just have a difficult time accepting it.
And that based on misrepresentations. The liberal argument goes, a lot of people who have been to these therapists end up committing suicide, ergo it is a Bad Thing. Nobody asks what it would have been like for them had they never gone... that is the fair comparison.
There, I said it.
5.56mm
they’ll pass this. the country is dead
This may prove interesting if they hold hearings. I know the gay community will get their say, but the other side may as well.
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