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So the Democrats on Pittsburgh City Council decide to express their stampy foot hissy-fit over Trump winning by passing a bill to ban conversion therapy within Pittsburgh city limits.

Conversion therapy that may or may not have actually occurred. All based on some hearsay anonymous calls to Council.

Regardless of the fact that nobody seems to really know whether Pittsburgh City Council is even empowered to do such a thing.

And the one member of Council who had the common sense to object apparently lacked the courage to vote "no".

Not like there are potholes to fill, bridges to fix and garbage to be collected in Pittsburgh. The uber-liberal City Gov is obsessed with building bike paths and banning conversion therapy.

This is turning into San Francisco on the Monongahela.

1 posted on 12/08/2016 6:33:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Homosexual behavior is soul murder.


2 posted on 12/08/2016 6:34:29 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.

These clown want to ensure they have access to your children.


3 posted on 12/08/2016 6:35:26 AM PST by G Larry (America has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How about individual freedom to pursue this therapy if one wishes to? We’re supposed to be a free country, right?


4 posted on 12/08/2016 6:36:39 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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[Bruce] Kraus, who is gay, called conversion therapy “a form of soul murder.” …
Totally unbiased voice, there. Never mind being a Democrat.

(Slightly OT, but I remember reading that the makers of the 1978 Incredible Hulk TV show changed the lead character’s name from “Bruce” to ”David” because the former name was too “gay”. Not sure how true that is.)
6 posted on 12/08/2016 6:38:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Kraus - Theologian of the Ages


7 posted on 12/08/2016 6:38:34 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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Homosexual: "This is not a choice! It's who I am! Society is so homophobic, do you really think I would CHOOSE to be this way??"
Scientist: "We can change your orientation. We can be like everyone else. You wouldn't have to suffer from society's prejudice anymore."
Homosexual: "You evil man! You're trying to murder my soul! Get away from me!"

Yeah, it's a mental disorder.

9 posted on 12/08/2016 6:40:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Silly councilman, leading a soul down a path to spend eternity apart from God is soul murder.


11 posted on 12/08/2016 6:42:58 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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I’m someone who tried to make her teenager go to therapy, not for same sex attraction but for various other things that I’m not going into here but including a court order. My memory is of standing in the drive way with her screaming obscenities at me. She would not get in the car. She was (I thought) too young to drive so I was going to have to take her. I gave up that day. Next day she stole my sports car and was gone all day.

She now is in her 30s and doing well. Still and always a challenge. But my point here is that no teenager goes to any kind of therapy against his/her will. Any therapy I’ve been involved with (and my profession brought me in contact with a lot of it) was 1) mostly useless; and 2) only of any use if the patient/client was engaged in it.

So I’m wondering - a kids is taken to therapy by his/her parent. The session starts, the kid blurts out that he/she has attraction to the same sex and wants to stop having those feelings. Does the therapist stop the entire process and call the authorities?

I’m a licensed mediator and there are certain things which if brought up in therapy stop the mediation cold. So as a retired lawyer who has to know the end result of things, what is the end result here? Any therapists out there doing continuing education on this subject?


12 posted on 12/08/2016 6:45:27 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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Don’t know what happened to your link.

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/11603390-74/therapy-conversion-kraus


14 posted on 12/08/2016 6:46:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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so... if the kid thought they were a rock or a tree would this guy be against conversion therapy?


15 posted on 12/08/2016 6:46:55 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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He’s right in a way. Not soul murder but perhaps spirit expulsion (i.e. exorcism).


18 posted on 12/08/2016 6:51:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Maybe s/he should think of it as a soul-abortion. S/he’d probably be alright with it then.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 6:56:50 AM PST by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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Don’t there peeps have an Urban Utopia to run?


20 posted on 12/08/2016 6:57:23 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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What if these homosexuals want to try it?

My God, no freedom of choice.


22 posted on 12/08/2016 6:58:44 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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The day a young person is molested or recruited is the day the soul was murdered.


24 posted on 12/08/2016 7:00:18 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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".....I'm a Dobbler weather radar station, don't unplug me"

25 posted on 12/08/2016 7:00:35 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Imagine if one of the nearby townships offered themselves as a “sanctuary city” for practitioners of conversion therapy. Liberal heads would explode.


26 posted on 12/08/2016 7:03:06 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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A man showing off why Romans 1:18-32 is spot on accurate.


27 posted on 12/08/2016 7:04:59 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“conversion therapy,” the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation cure a person of a mental disorder.
29 posted on 12/08/2016 7:07:03 AM PST by Petrosius
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Ahh Pittsburgh City Council... where circus monkeys and clowns pretend to be civic leaders.


30 posted on 12/08/2016 7:11:24 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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