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.
Cordially,
LGBTQ+ ????
I just read your posts and think about them until I sound clever ;-). I was thinking about the “gender confusion” phenomenon at the gym this morning - have to think about something other than the pain.
A couple of generations ago, our culture rejected natural human sexuality: a man and a woman engage in natural sexual intercourse, which produces a baby, which the man and woman rear until the mini-human achieves independence. Having rejected the very physical basis of our sexual dimorphism, the culture has exaggerated “gender” as a far more important quality.
“Gender,” being socially imposed, is far more limiting to the human person than is simple manhood and womanhood. It allows far less individual variation, just as you can’t express very much of your individuality when you’re playing a role on stage.
The rules of “masculine” and “feminine” are now being strictly imposed on children who have no concept of “an act I have to put on.” They very naturally become confused about their identity at a fundamental level. Then adults throw in a perceived connection between “gendered” expressions and sexual activity. A further level of confusion. Adults using children for sexual gratification; another level of confusion and trauma.
I would like everyone reading the thread to pity these children and young adults, although without concluding that the harm done to them requires realigning society around their pathologies. I think some of the extreme “nonjudgmentalism” of young people results from their recognizing that their contemporaries aren’t to blame for their attempts to cope, however bizarre.
What is really needed is committed mothers and fathers, protecting the innocence of children, accepting the variety of personalities in children of either sex.
Is this your own poem? If so bravo! If not bravo for posting it!
Political reality? Nope.
Economic reality? Nope.
Cultural reality? Nope.
Climate reality? Nope.
Biological reality? Nope.
In every instance, a fantasy is deemed preferable to reality.
Savage really is right: the left is mentally ill.
And they should be treated as such.
LGBTQWTF
He's something but that damn sure works for me!
You’re exactly right. So what’s it going to take for us to go from posting on here to meeting at the steps of the Congressional offices?
Read the Book indeed!
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Purpose, direction, and Motivation.
On the other hand I am sometimes a bit confused by the moral contradictions in these stories. For instance the fact that the bible says that Lot offered his daughters to the men for sex, rather than his guests. Then later that his daughters lay with him sexually. What are the lessons there?
The lesson is that people sin, especially when they use their own judgment of what’s right or wrong. Not every story in the Bible is a positive example. Some are clearly, “Don’t do these wrong, stupid things: you see how badly it turned out!”
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Thanks for all the ‘pink’ stuff and all. But I was referring to daniel1212’s posted poem.
Ellen DeGeneres was molested by her stepfather but says it had no effect on her becoming a lesbian. Her former partner, Anne Heche, was molested by her father but has taken steps to heal and was married to a man. Rosie O’Donnell and her homosexual brother were molested by a relative but she won’t say who.
When someone is ‘questioning’ they’re right there to steer them in the wrong direction.
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