Posted on 04/05/2018 7:47:55 AM PDT by fwdude
In a brazen assault on our most fundamental freedoms, California legislators are considering a bill (AB-2943) that would make it illegal for anyone to receive professional help to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion. This would apply to people of all ages. People of all religious and moral convictions. It is an absolute outrage, and it must be opposed vigorously.
For the last few years, a growing number of states and cities have embraced legislation making it illegal for minors struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion to receive professional help, even with the full support of their parents.
This would apply to a 14-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle at the age of 8 and now feels repulsion towards men and attraction towards women. If her parents stood with her and she wanted to meet with a trained counselor to help to get to the root of her attractions, in some states, that would be illegal. No professional counselor or therapist or psychologist would be allowed to help her.
Yet in these same states, if an 8-year-old girl believed she was really a boy and wanted to receive professional help to affirm her female identity, that would be perfectly legal. A counselor could tell her parents to encourage her to dress and identify as a boy. That counselor could also recommend that, at age 10, she start taking hormone blockers, then prepares to “transition” fully to male at age 16, then has sex-change surgery at 18, with hormones prescribed for life.
That would be perfectly legal. But for that same 8-year-old girl to say, “I want to be at home in the body God gave me. I don’t want hormones and surgery. Can anyone help me?” The answer would be, “No. Such help is illegal.”
California wants to take this one dangerous step farther, making it illegal for anyone of any change to receive such help. This defies all logic and can only be seen for what it is: a frontal assault on our freedom to self-determination. A frontal assault on our freedom of religion. And a frontal assault on our freedom of conscience.
And make no mistake about this. As ADF attorney Matt Sharp explained on my Line of Fire broadcast, this legislation would extend into the churches.
For example, let’s say that your church has the policy of offering free pastoral counseling for all tithing members. That would mean a financial transaction is involved in those services. So, you, a member in good standing want to receive some much-needed counseling.
You’re a married father of four, but you struggle deeply with gender identity confusion. You set up an appointment with one of the pastors, only to be told, “It is illegal for us to help you.”
I am not exaggerating.
Or you’re reading the Bible, which strictly forbids homosexual relationships, and you want help with unwanted same-sex attractions. You even read where the Bible says that some people used to practice homosexuality, but through the gospel, they no longer do (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
You try to set up that counseling appointment with your pastor, only to be told, “It is illegal for us to help you.”
That pastor could not even recommend a book on the subject from the church bookstore.
That’s how far this outrageous bill goes, and it’s only one of a series of bills being put forward in California. If the bills pass there, other states will be eager to follow suit.
What makes this even more outrageous is that: 1) there are thousands of ex-gays who can personally testify to their own transformation; 2) there are gay and lesbian psychologists who argue against the myth that homosexuality is innate and immutable; and 3) most children who identify as transgender no longer do so after puberty.
And remember, while California seeks to pass this monstrous legislation, it has no problem backing a psychologist who will help a man embrace his alleged male and female identity simultaneously. Or a counselor who will help someone embrace their alleged animal (or, alien) identity. All of that is fine. But to help someone be at home in their own body would be illegal.
The whole basis of the legislation is the claim that: 1) medical fraud is being practiced; and 2) harm can be done to patients who undergo such counseling or therapy.
But there are plenty of patients who attest to the life-transforming impact of the counseling they received. And there are plenty of Christians who attest to the life-transforming power of the gospel – including transformation from homosexual and transgender identities.
It’s also a fact that there is no definitive proof that such counseling harms a patient anymore than some patients claim harm after undergoing counseling for substance abuse or overeating or depression.
In fact, during my radio broadcast, Ann Paulk, an ex-lesbian herself, said that positive counseling outcomes for people dealing with unwanted same-sex attractions are higher than positive outcomes for those dealing with alcoholism. Yet no one in their right mind would seek to ban professional counseling or therapy for alcoholics.
No, this California assault on our most fundamental freedoms is simply the latest manifestation of LGBT activism. As I and others have warned incessantly for many years, those who came out of the closet want to put us in the closet. Do you believe me now?
And while critics of any kind of change therapy mocked us with the (false) claim that we were trying to “pray away the gay,” these same critics now want to pass a law that says, “You must stay gay” (or, “gender confused”).
Will you stand up and make your voice heard today?
Here are four things you can do: 1) share this article and my radio broadcast with your friends; 2) go here to find out more; 3) alert your friends in California and encourage them to contact their legislators; 4) pray for awakening in the Church and sanity in the society.
You have been forewarned.
So, now the queers outnumber the normals in the CA legislature?
I think this could be ruled unconstitutional under the equal protection clause.
But first, we’d need a gay person to say that they are feeling and urge to convert to being straight, and that they want counseling to stay gay. Or perhaps just that hypothetical might suffice - I’m not sure.
So then the argument should be that this violates the equal protection clause because while this person can legally seek treatment, the opposite can not.
The same stupidity is being voted on at Disneyland on the Chesapeake, the Maryland General Asylum.
Only true morons will vote for it.
California has become Satanic.
I think you have misjudged our GOPeer's, bigly!
Such psychologists/psychiatrists are simply servants of Satan.
Not quite. The leftists legislature passed the law; Christie failed to exercise the veto power, possibly because numbers would have made an override probable.
They need to change the book to “Jamal had Two Mommies, who drove him off a cliff”
All in the name of “equali—teee”, “ equal—iteee”,the call of the socialibis justilius activitus a parasite which attaches itself on the species politicotos feathernestis.
When I enlisted in the Navy in the summer of '61, I had to fill out a checklist type medical questionnaire which asked did I have or had I ever had a long list of conditions and illnesses. One of the items was homosexual tendencies.
Isn’t this interesting - the state is forcing a gay to stay gay even if the gay wants to become straight. And the media says we don’t have a values, a moral problem in this nation of ours. Shame!!!
I argue with my sister about topics like this, and she tells me I’m paranoid even when I describe stuff that’s already happening!
Next is a law that will make it illegal to be in a discussion, attend events or be compelled to change parties from a DemocRat to a Republican or from a brainwahed Liberal to a free-thinking conservative. But it’s okay to be brainwashed or indoctrinated into being a Dem or a Libtard.
Worse, it's the new official national religion. Unconstitutionally.
No, they'll rely on the overriding principle that their junk "science" proves it's "harmful," and therefore out of the realm of constitutionality.
This is why it’s called “homoFascism.”
Just when you think Kalifornia can’t get any more outrageous there they go again. Something in the water out there????
Regarding California's leadership problems, consider that all roads of corruption in federal and state governments actually lead to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress imo.
This is because although the states have given Congress the 14th Amendment power to make punitive laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights, we’re still stuck with a corrupt Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that will predictably not lift a finger to protect enumerated rights, basic 1st Amendment protections in this example.
"14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
So all patriots in the country need to resolve enumerated rights abridgment problems in California and other activist states by doing the following.
Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure the there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, candidates who will be willing to make punitive laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
So if you become gay and wish to change back, go to a counselor trained in this 'reversion aversion' therapy. If the therapy fails and you become straight again, oh well!. Therapy does not always work.
You can’t force anyone to do anything
Mostly they will resist and do the opposite
You can dupe people into believing bullcrap. Ie democraps
But you can only lead through EXAMPLE for the most part
Criminalizing sanity. Only in CA. (well...maybe not. IL and NY are watching, I’m sure.)
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