Posted on 07/03/2019 11:52:33 AM PDT by detective
he California State Assembly voted 9-2 to send to the state senate a resolution calling on religious leaders to counsel on LGBTQ matters from a place of love, compassion, and knowledge of the psychological and other harms of conversion therapy.
While no one would argue with the aim of being more loving and more compassionate in our counsel of our fellow man, the peoples representatives do not possess any authority in the arena of religious practice.
Article I, Section 4 of the California Constitution reads, in relevant part: Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed. This liberty of conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious or inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State. The Legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Regardless of those restrictions, lawmakers in the California Assembly have chosen to ignore their states constitution and to introduce a measure that, should it ever become binding law, would drastically shrink the scope of religious liberty in the Golden State.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
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American Flag is prohibited but Rainbow Flag is mandatory.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
From the 14th Amendment (14A):
"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.
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Note that even if most California legal citizen voters dont know whats going on with California constitution religious protections, it remains that 14A protects rights of individual citizens.
In fact, patriots who value their religious protections should consider that Acts 22:25-29 shows that Paul used his Roman citizenship to get out of a flogging.
H O W E V E R
Were still stuck with a corrupt Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that will predictably not do its duty to exercise its constitutionally enumerated powers to make penal laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, freedom of religious expression in this and relatively recent examples.
The remedy for constitutionally failed federal and state governments
Patriots in the whole nation need to come to the rescue of citizens in California and other misguided activist states by electing a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJTs vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do the following.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to use their express constitutional powers to make laws that discourage state actors from abridging enumerated federal and state constitutional protections.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG!
............. Government Controlled Religion ..... The Constitution has a word or two to say about that ....
Article I, Section 4 of the California Constitution reads, in relevant part: Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed. This liberty of conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious or inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State. The Legislature shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Yep. Tell them to pound sand.
The STATE is telling the CHURCH what to believe and what to do?
What the HELL? These are the same people who go nuts over the Ten Commandments in public or a 100 year old cross on public property. What happened to the “separation of church and state”?
Damn demoncrats.
VOTE PERVOCRAT
Conversion therapy might be illegal in CA, but they also want to prevent clergy from sending people to other states, or doing any sort of pastoral counselling which might have as an objective having the gay person try to become straight.
Didn’t the Orlando night club shooting establish that Islam was higher on the PC Totem pole than gay?
religious leaders to counsel on LGBTQ matters from a place of love, compassion, and knowledge of the psychological and other harms of conversion therapy.
Without at least the hope of conversion therapy, their next best hope is probably a degrading depressive existence ending in suicide.
= Substitution of State for Church.
The real Cultural Marxism motivation.
This liberty of conscience does not excuse acts that are licentious
Poppycock.
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It will be fuly supported by most real churches.
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