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Germany joins push to ban gay conversion therapies
TheLocal.de ^ | 16 February 2019 13:40 CET+01:00 | AFP

Posted on 02/17/2019 5:19:50 PM PST by Olog-hai

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday he will seek to ban conversion therapies that claim to change sexual orientation.

“Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated,” Spahn, who is gay himself, told the Berlin daily left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung.

He hoped that a German law banning such therapies could be adopted by the middle of the year. […]

“I do not believe in these therapies, mainly owing to my own homosexuality,” said Spahn, who represents the right wing of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: conversiontherapy; eussr; gaystapo; germany; healthminister; homosexualagenda; jensspahn; spahn

1 posted on 02/17/2019 5:19:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Can we pass a law to forbid attempting to change conservatives into liberals?


2 posted on 02/17/2019 5:21:42 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Olog-hai

Mutilating children in sex conversion therapies is still AOK though.


3 posted on 02/17/2019 5:28:37 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is supposedly the right wing of the ‘right wing’ party in germany..let that sink in.


4 posted on 02/17/2019 5:30:22 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: Olog-hai
Spahn, who is gay himself, told the Berlin daily left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung.

Gee, what a shock.
5 posted on 02/17/2019 5:33:19 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai

“Homosexuality is not an illness” said the degenerate narcissist.


6 posted on 02/17/2019 5:52:43 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Olog-hai

Homotherapyphobes.


7 posted on 02/17/2019 5:52:57 PM PST by Phillyred
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“Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated,”

Err the person with the disease gets no say?

8 posted on 02/17/2019 5:58:04 PM PST by the_daug
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To: Olog-hai

Part of the problem is an erroneous concept of “conversion”. If you go from “obsessively fornicating with the same sex” to “obsessively fornicating with the other sex,” you’re still a nut with serious problems.

Real “conversion” is conversion to chastity: the right use of the sexual faculties in accordance with one’s state in life.


9 posted on 02/17/2019 6:00:23 PM PST by Tax-chick (They should have listened to Julian Simon.)
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To: Olog-hai

What about the vaunted “Bi-sexual” they use to talk so much about? What is the “Bi” wants to choose one over the other?


10 posted on 02/17/2019 6:00:45 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: mrmeyer

Homosexuals who know they’re sick will need to enter the closet to get help.


11 posted on 02/17/2019 6:01:27 PM PST by the_daug
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To: Olog-hai

Using that same kind of logic...

Homosexuality cannot be treated by attempting to change one’s appearance via surgery. If it’s not an illness to be homosexual or gay, then, there can’t be a treatment that fixes the ‘illness’. You are what you are born as, and no treatment will change that.


12 posted on 02/17/2019 6:31:37 PM PST by adorno
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To: Olog-hai

Funny - I read this stuff, I can’t help but think of Joel Grey’s Cabaret song

“Willkommen! Und bienvenue! Welcome!
Fremder, étranger, stranger
Glücklich zu sehen
Je suis enchanté
Happy to see you ...”

and the associated 1930s decadence that led to you-know-who’s ascendance.


13 posted on 02/17/2019 7:32:45 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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