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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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
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To: a fool in paradise

We can unilaterally ban them: Homeschool.


41 posted on 04/09/2015 7:15:26 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: xzins

If I recall correctly the deal with this online petition thing is if it gets X number of signatures then the White House has to issue a comment. So they commented. I don’t think anyone in Congress has sponsored a bill to end conversion therapy, and I doubt any such bill would ever make it out of committee.


42 posted on 04/09/2015 7:16:30 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: xzins

First of all, Valerie Jarrett is not a representative of the people and second of all she is so phucking ugly that her face reminds me of the south end of an old bulldog headed north...nobody cares what she thinks...


43 posted on 04/09/2015 7:17:14 AM PDT by Stayfree (FLUSH HILLARY OR WE ARE DOOMED!!!!)
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To: xzins

It’s really hard to go anywhere and speak out on this stuff.

On Reddit, your posted can be voted up or down, which means anything that does not tow the homogenda gets a score of -6 in 2 minutes and disappears from view.

One of my local news sites employes the typical hipster leftist as moderators, so you say anything in dissent, and it gets removed.


44 posted on 04/09/2015 7:17:24 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: No_More_Harkin

It usually stands for queer.


45 posted on 04/09/2015 7:17:46 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

Obamunists and gay bullies would prohibit you by law from teaching your children otherwise.


46 posted on 04/09/2015 7:18:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Not the point, really.

It’s the THINKING of your president and staff that’s crucial.

Did you watch the politicians caving in over Indiana’s “government can’t force Christians to sin” law?


47 posted on 04/09/2015 7:18:39 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: demshateGod

They won’t. So who will? Please Lord, you promised in Psalms to punish your enemies.


It is going to happen. I have no doubts.


48 posted on 04/09/2015 7:18:42 AM PDT by boycott
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To: MeshugeMikey

Tobacco is EVIL..................


49 posted on 04/09/2015 7:18:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: xzins

Are you SURE this isn’t satire? if not, it’s CWII right now.


50 posted on 04/09/2015 7:19:53 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: xzins
Following Governor Browndrought’s lead.

9/30/12

“California bans gay “conversion” therapy for minors”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/30/us-california-gaytherapy-idUSBRE88T0DR20120930

51 posted on 04/09/2015 7:20:28 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: xzins

..... Congress would be needed to pass a national law that prohibited parents .......

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So the Left/Progressive/LGBGT+whatever-other-letters-you-want-to-add interpretation will be that if you, as a parent, teach your child from the Bible that homosexuality is a sin, then you will have violated the law they want, whether the law specifically states that or not. ValJar, Obama et al have the ultimate goal of making the Christian religion illegal.


52 posted on 04/09/2015 7:20:49 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: demshateGod
Queer. I’m not kidding.

LOL..Well, that sure is redundant. You would think that they would just get rid of the other letters in that acronym and just call themselves "Q". Simply amazing.

53 posted on 04/09/2015 7:20:53 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: Lazamataz

Sodom and Gomorrah did it.

Of course, they’re so gone now, one can’t tell they were ever there.


54 posted on 04/09/2015 7:20:54 AM PDT by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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To: txhurl

I’m sure this is from CNS and that they site the White House Website


55 posted on 04/09/2015 7:20:59 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Lazamataz
He may actually be the Antichrist.

He hasn't missed any of the decriptions yet. The antichrist is a faggot, too.....

Daniel 11:37 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

56 posted on 04/09/2015 7:22:37 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: pepsionice
what can we do with a president who smokes everything he can stuff in a pipe/....


57 posted on 04/09/2015 7:22:38 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: xzins

This is the Truth.

WARNING GRAPHIC!

http://factsaboutyouth.com/posts/health-risks-of-the-homosexual-lifestyle/


58 posted on 04/09/2015 7:22:39 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: xzins

Young people: avoid intimate intestinal contact it leads to disease and tissue damage. A single load of virus will change your life forever.


59 posted on 04/09/2015 7:23:00 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: pepsionice

OB???? as in OBIE? perhaps...


60 posted on 04/09/2015 7:23:05 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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