Posted on 11/19/2016 11:20:21 AM PST by Steelfish
Gays Can Be Reformed, Just Like Arsonists, Trumps 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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Sadly mainstream psychology/medicine has decided it’s not a disease so no one has been developing any real treatment that I know of.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must ‘leave the children in peace’.
“Mr Putin told volunteers today that gays visiting Sochi ‘can feel calm and at ease,’ and vowed that there would be no discrimination at the games.
“But he emphasised that, according to a law banning homosexual ‘propaganda’ among minors, gays cannot express their views on gay rights issues to anyone under age.”
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Studies suggest that between 30 and 70% of gays can be cured, about the same alcoholism.
http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/gay-rights
Besides, the whole “born that way” controversy is absolutely irrelevant to the moral truth that sodomy is a mortal sin, and destroys people. The notion that some people are “born that way” is a red herring, whose function is to mislead those people unable to understand what a moral argument is. The moral evil of sodomy was never predicated on the stupid idea that anyone “chooses” to have same-sex attraction. Unfortunately, there are preachers who staked their case against sodomy precisely on this stupid proposition.
This move to the right is so great. This country has needed this, since Reagan left office. I guess this is what some of the so called conservatives feared about Trump. Push hard to the right !
Right on. Time to make bold hard right moves. 8 years of Obama was a long nightmare.
Since so many faggots live in DC, I assume a majority of Wash. Compost writers are faggots.
So, they’re saying homosexuality isn’t a sin?
No, they are saying homosexuality is no different than heterosexuality. Heck, the SC agreed with them said its unconstitutional discrimination.
I know, I better keep my opinions to myself or else I will be unemployable.
How about, instead of converting show them the “world hates me” is a delusion, and a perpetrated lie.
Oh, Ken Blackwell is a black man? That makes it easy!
Anyone who criticizes him is a RACIST!
Use the Left’s methods against them.
Then, why did they say Blackwell said the anti-faggot comment, “Homosexuality is a sin.” Sounds like they don’t believe it’s a sin.
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