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Obama: Ban Parents from Having Children Counseled Not to be ‘LGBTQ+’
CNS ^ | April 8, 2015

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.


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To: deweyfrank
Who added the Q to the end this rainbow acronym and what does it stand for?

I've heard it stands for "Questioning" as in the poor disaffected soul is questioning his/her/its identity.

101 posted on 04/09/2015 8:04:46 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Red Badger

Pedophilia.


102 posted on 04/09/2015 8:05:45 AM PDT by matthew fuller (The Republic is unlikely to survive the multitude of fools that twice elected Obama.)
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To: metmom
LJesus said that as in the days of Noah, where the thoughts of men were only evil continually, all the time. We’ve surpassed Sodom and Gomorrah and are racing at breakneck speed for the judgment of God on this country. He will not be mocked.

Interestingly, that which took Divine Intervention before can now be accomplished with nuclear weapons.

103 posted on 04/09/2015 8:06:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: caww

This is all based on a “sinful lifestyle choice”


104 posted on 04/09/2015 8:06:48 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: xzins; Fred Nerks

Obama’s parents, whoever they are, should have been banned from even having children.

Political power based on gender, sexuality or race will lead to violence and civil war. Its an Alisnsky tactic.

Obama is setting American against American. He is uniting no one except his leftist supporters.Obama is one treasonous son of bitch, IMHO.


105 posted on 04/09/2015 8:09:03 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: xzins
Even six years ago--when this man, who has surrounded himself with people who hate America, her history, values, culture and potential, all of his life, took office;--no one would have suggested this blending of tyranny & idiocy, even as a satire of the American Left.

The most disturbing sign of the times is how the media, and much of the academic world, which has conditioned that media to eschew reason in favor of instant lip service to whatever idiocy the Left embraces at any given moment. will uncritically promote this as a new virtue.

The idea of claiming political authority--even at the Federal level--for suppressing parental authority to deal with troubled children, goes beyond anything any of the great satirists would have imagined even in their most extreme flights of fancy.

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.

106 posted on 04/09/2015 8:10:26 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Lazamataz

That’s an interesting point.

God has allowed us the ability to bring our own judgment down on our own heads.

When I read of some of the creatures described in the book of Revelation, I can now see how that can happen through genetic engineering gone wrong.

Nevertheless, I do not think that it’s any less God’s judgment. It’s just that He’s letting us have what we want, a world without Him.

And that is the fruit of what mankind will do to himself without God’s divine intervention to prevent it.


107 posted on 04/09/2015 8:13:24 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: xzins
Often, this practice is used on minors, who lack the legal authority to make their own medical and mental health decisions.

Except if it's an abortion. Then the kids can make their own medical decisions.

108 posted on 04/09/2015 8:13:30 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

As they say in NYC, here’s your Plan B pill kid, just don’t wash it down with a large soda or smoke a cig after sex.


109 posted on 04/09/2015 8:14:41 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: xzins

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?


110 posted on 04/09/2015 8:15:49 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: xzins
If a government can tell a parent not to get help for their own child, then that government can tell a parent anything. Anything from deserting the child to killing it.

Well said!

111 posted on 04/09/2015 8:16:32 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Jesus told followers to spread faith through love. Mohammed told followers to spread thru the sword.)
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To: matthew fuller
Pedophilia.

Yes. Watch for that. It's next on their agenda. They've already gone to the UN to have the age of consent lowered to puberty world wide (during Clinton adm). The UN was listening until it found out the "concerned citizens" were sent there by NAMBLA.
The homosexual males are attracted to small boys. In fact, the NAMBLA (men who "love" children) believe a man should be able to have sex (they refer to it as "love" just like all the other homosexual) with a male infant as soon as he's able to sit up by himself.

112 posted on 04/09/2015 8:17:59 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: xzins
Homo-Fascism is on the march.


113 posted on 04/09/2015 8:18:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
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?

"Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth, for Satan has been cast down unto you having great rage, because he knows he has but little time."

114 posted on 04/09/2015 8:23:16 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Lazamataz

When did it become “cool” to be gay?

We reach a point at which our society became open and “tolerant” of homosexuality, cross dressers, those with sex change operations, etc.

But now, it seems we have reached a point at which it is cool to be gay, cool to be trans-whatever.

To listen to some people, you would swear you just haven’t lived, and your life is not complete, until you have had your sex change operation. Geez.................


115 posted on 04/09/2015 8:24:04 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: xzins

This is all about creating as much social chaos as possible so people with no moral foundation will become confused and seek grounding. The communists will proclaim they are the ones to supply the proper foundation for these “heads full of mush”, and the communist machine will march forward with new foot soldiers.


116 posted on 04/09/2015 8:26:13 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: xzins
None of this will matter after Obama surrenders to Iran, because, as the future President of Planet Earth Ahm-a-nut-job said: We don't have any Homosexuals/LGBTQ+ in Iran!
117 posted on 04/09/2015 8:27:09 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: xzins

Troxel v. Granville
530 U.S. 57 (2000)

JUSTICE O’CONNOR, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE GINSBURG, and JUSTICE BREYER, concluded that § 26.10.160(3), as applied to Granville and her family, violates her due process right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of her daughters. Pp.63-75.

(a) The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause has a substantive component that “provides heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests,” Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 720, including parents’ fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children, see, e. g., Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U. S. 645, 651. Pp.63-66.


118 posted on 04/09/2015 8:29:20 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: xzins

I was extending your argument - it’s no great leap in logic to have those riders attached to an already horrendous, morally bankrupt bill.


119 posted on 04/09/2015 8:31:12 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: jagusafr

Yep, I was agreeing with you. And I do agree with you.


120 posted on 04/09/2015 8:34:38 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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