Posted on 09/13/2019 1:22:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A New York City law banning so-called gay conversion therapy would be repealed under legislation introduced Thursday over concerns that a pending federal lawsuit could lead to a decision unfavorable to the LGBTQ community if the case were to make it to the Supreme Court.
Council Speaker Corey Johnson introduced the repeal in what he called a painful decision.
The council had passed the ban against the widely discredited practice, which aims to change a persons sexual orientation or gender identity, less than two years ago, at the end of 2017, and it took effect last year.
The proposed repeal now goes to a committee hearing, scheduled for next week, and then would have a vote in the full council and, if it is passed, would be signed by the mayor. [ ]
The Alliance Defending Freedom had filed a federal lawsuit over ban in January on behalf of a therapist in Brooklyn, saying it violated free speech between a therapist and client.
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I daresay the violent crowd in the streets of S&G had nothing on the size of these crowds. Not even close; not by a long shot. And they will eventually get to the point of trying to break down the doors, once again.
Which tells me the hour is late. Very late.
This term is often used in conjunction with conversion therapy. Discredited according to who?
Keep in mind, "conversion therapy" will be expanded to include parents discussing sexual identity issues with their minor children. That's really what this is about.
[The madness is on such an epic level]
Indeed it is. This issue alone should DEMONstrate to everyone out there that Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is not only not a genuine Christian, but that he’s a false prophet from the pit of Hell raised up by the Devil himself. He has fame and riches.
Obama said “I have a gift”. Constant lying and antichrist works are not a “gift” - except from that Old Serpent called the Devil and Satan.
Yes, there have been some bad practices in the past, just as there have been with other psychiatric practices such as badly done or punitive electroshock therapy. But to make a blatant prohibition on the GOALS of any new kinds of treatment is lunacy.
Here is only one of the problems with having a law like this in place: A therapist treats an anxious patient for a variety of issues, carefully avoiding mentioning homosexuality and aiming at the patient's extreme anxiety That patient becomes more mentally healthy and he gives up the gay lifestyle of his own accord. Soon he sends other uncomfortable gay people to the doctor, claiming the doctor can help them, too. Some are helped; some are not; but one of them brings up his homosexuality repeatedly, remains defensive, isn't changed because he really doesn't have an open mind that it might actually be possible; then turns around and sues the doctor for fraud and abuse, because it is against the law to treat homosexuality, even if the patient brought it up or begged for it.
This is a sucker and entrapment law. It's like the cake baker entrapment, when dozens of other bakers are available, but everyone must be made to comply. Even some PhD psychology programs have forced Christians to "affirm" homosexuality and prevent them from refusing to treat gay patients affirmatively, and have thrown some PhD candidates out of the program after years of study rather than grant them a degree, even if they try to refer the patients to a doctor who is supportive of the homosexual agenda. Several of them have won their lawsuits agains the universities, but it took a terrible toll on their lives.
Not all of “Western civilization” is English-speaking. Much of what is regarded as part of it now made war on the English-speaking world twice in the last century. One in particular of the “Axis” is responsible for the plague of leftism we endure today.
Would that be American liberals (I’m very sorry to say) or the liberals of Western Europe?
Either answer or “both” would work for me. Unfortunately.
[Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is not only not a genuine Christian, but that hes a false prophet from the pit of Hell raised up by the Devil himself. He has fame and riches GIVEN TO HIM BY THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.]
The “god of this world” is the same as “the prince of this world”. That Old Serpent called the Devil and Satan.
I had people such as Marx, Engels, Bismarck et al in mind.
The last on that list implemented something called “state socialism”, which we know today as the European Union’s “social market economy” (someone called Adolf used the former term).
Never mind the societal ideas related to family, private property, religion etc.
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