Posted on 11/19/2016 11:20:21 AM PST by Steelfish
Gays Can Be Reformed, Just Like Arsonists, Trump’s New Domestic Policy Adviser Has Said
By Amy Ellis Nutt November 19
Ken Blackwell, tapped last week by President-elect Donald Trump to head domestic policy during the businessman's transition to the White House, has made anti-LGBT statements for years. Among them: Homosexuality is a sin, and gay people, just like petty thieves and fire-setters, can be rehabilitated.
The Ohio politician has long endorsed a controversial mental health practice known as conversion therapy or reparative therapy. The goal is to cure a person of his or her homosexuality, and in the case of transgender people, to reaffirm the gender into which they were born.
In the past, treatments have included everything from inducing vomiting to using mild electric shock while patients viewed homoerotic images. Since the 1990s, however, the therapy has been denounced by many medical and scientific societies and even outlawed in a handful of states. In 2015, the Obama administration expressed disapproval of the practice after Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old transgender teen in Ohio, took her life after being forced by her parents to undergo conversion counseling. While Blackwell will be overseeing a wide swath of domestic issues facing the new administration, one big question facing the LGBT community is whether a Trump administration will promote the discredited therapy.
Two years ago, in a radio interview with Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, which has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Blackwell appeared to blame the deaths of six individuals in a 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista, Calif., on the LGBT rights movement, saying it undermined "natural marriage.
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Christmas everyday!
Personally, I have my doubts about treatments for any sort of sexual addiction.
Do you think Anthony Weiner can be reformed?
Trump needs to pick people that are not lightning rods.
Trump is not getting a job selling real estate. Not all publicity is good publicity.
Lots of work needs to be done and Republicans might only have two years to do it.
All the gay blades at the Post are on the warpath trying to shoot down this heroic black man who fearlessly voices his deepest convictions? Of course they are, that is exactly what one would expect them to do.
It wasn’t very long ago.
Didn’t the Washington Post used to be an actual newspaper?
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For many, many years it was a great newspaper but now, only useful for lining one’s birdcage. Shame.
Homo pedos can’t be.
Like most people with a mental disorder, homosexuals can be treated and healed.
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OMG, now you’ve gone and done it! You courageously voiced the truth about homosexuality. You’re in BIG trouble! /s
In their eyes, simply disagreeing with them makes one anti-LGBT.
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Of course. That’s been SOP for fascists since Hitler was a pup.
That’s not the issue on our side. California has banned anyone from providing conversion therapy. In a blink of an eye the libs will ban it nationally, even while mandating funding for sex change operations. We’re not the ones asking for government involvement.
When someone comes out as homosexual in their 40s or 50s even after living life as straight, libs will say sexuality is fluid, evolving and unpredictable.
When someone suggests that a homosexual might become straight, libs say they’re a bigot and hater and anti-science, etc.
How dare this person speak the truth.
He should know all about behavioral change. He used to be fat.
>> only useful for lining one’s birdcage
If you get the Sunday paper you can do a whole aviary.
This “You are just born that way” crap has been totally discredited by the “Twin Studies”
Repeat LOUD AND OFTEN
Homosexuality is a behavior. Behaviors can be modified.
I had much behavior modified in my youth...............
Any news source that quotes the southern poverty law center is automatically invalidated.
The horror that’s been growing were state laws outlawing conversion therapy for homosexuals and transgenders’ treatment in any way other than “yes, let’s dress up and/or do surgery”.
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