Posted on 07/22/2020 2:57:19 PM PDT by Ennis85
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the government will move to ban “gay conversion therapy,” while failing to define how this might impact those seeking help with unwanted same-sex attraction.
In an interview with Sky News earlier this week, Johnson said: “on the gay conversion therapy thing, I think that's absolutely abhorrent and has no place in a civilized society, has no place in in this country – what we're going to do is a study right now on, you know, where is this actually happening? How prevalent is it? And we will then bring forward plans to ban it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuV2CoX4Io&feature=emb_title
Last month, a United Nations “Report on Conversion Therapy” encouraged governments to outlaw doctors from offering and patients from seeking assistance in overcoming unwanted feelings of homosexual attraction or confusion about their gender identity.
U.K. lobby group Christian Concern has pointed out in response to Johnson’s comments this week that “nowhere has the government or the UN offered any real definition of ‘conversion therapy’, and any ban would likely involve sacrificing the freedom of Christian counsellors and ministries to offer talking therapies, counselling and even prayer to those who want to turn away from LGBT attractions and practices.”
Some social conservatives celebrated the resounding general election victory in November last year for Johnson and the Conservative Party, with the other major parties having made the decriminalization of abortion and the promotion of LGBT causes prominent aspects of their election manifestos. However, it was a Conservative-led government which in 2013 introduced same-sex “marriage” without it having appeared in their manifesto, with Johnson a vocal supporter of the legislation.
In 2012 Johnson, then an MP and mayor of London, famously said of same-sex “marriage” on Sky News in December 2012, “Let’s whack it through [Parliament].” While Johnson was mayor of London he led the city’s homosexual “pride” march, wearing a pink diamante cowboy hat.
Following last year’s general election U.K. media reported that the United Kingdom now has the “gayest parliament in the world,” with eight percent of all MPs and almost seven percent of the Conservatives’ 365 elected MPs identifying as homosexual or bisexual. The U.K.’s Office for National Statistics released a study last year which suggested that homosexuals or bisexuals made up just two percent of the U.K.’s population in 2017.
Johnson’s comments are in line with moves around the world to ban so-called “conversion therapy.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently pushing legislation that would prohibit parents from seeking to help their son or daughter overcome gender confusion or unwanted homosexual attraction. In Germany, a bill was launched earlier this year that would ban all therapies “aimed at changing or suppressing sexual orientation or self-perceived gender identity,” and the recently formed Irish coalition government has made it a part of their Programme for Government to “ban conversion therapy.”
In New York, an Orthodox Jewish psychotherapist who for more than 50 years has regularly seen patients asking for help in overcoming same-sex attraction, has successfully fought back against a law that would have banned his conversation-based therapy. The city of New York was first forced to repeal the law and subsequently agreed to pay $100,000 in lawyers’ fees and damages after Dr. Dovid Schwartz of the Chabad Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Community launched his legal challenge last year, arguing that the law violated the First Amendment’s guaranteed right to free speech.
Defenders of bans on “reparative” or “conversion” therapy, such as Zack Ford of the American left-wing ThinkProgress, claim that “every major medical organization has condemned the practice as ineffective and harmful.” But many former homosexuals, such as Angel Colon and Drew Berryessa, attest to the treatments’ success in improving their lives. They say they want others currently struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction to have the same options that benefited them.
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So a person who doesn’t want to be attracted to the same sex has no choice?
Seems odd.
How about therapy to stop WANTED gay attractions...is that still ok to have therapy to stop?
If somebody wants this treatment, it should be available to them, just like a sex change operation is. . . caving to the LGxT crowd again. Hell, I can’t even remember all the letters used to refer to these creepy people. . . .
I must be slow today, because I just don't get this. What is unwanted same-sex attraction?
And gender “reassignment” surgery? A ban on that as well?
I guess that if you can ‘cure’ it, that makes it out to be something ‘wrong’ - and we can’t have that, now can we?
[And gender “reassignment” surgery? A ban on that as well?]
My guess is there will be more government funding.
I’d rather they fund silly walks.
How about banning hetero conversion and trans conversion therapy and quasi-medical procedures? Why do conservatives never propose this as well? The public would embrace the “fairness” argument overwhelmingly.
Will he ban therapy for people attracted to farm animals?
Will he ban therapy for people attracted to farm animals?
Why does it seem odd?
Everything is a mental disorder, everything gets a treatment, everything has a diagnosis code, EXCEPT if you’re homosexual, because we all know that’s natural, Biblical, functional and in no way linked to higher suicide and HIV/AIDS rates.
Hahahahaha
Poofters rule in Britain, bottom line. But that will change when the Muslims take over.
Meanwhile, they have Winston Churchill lashed down so he can’t spin.
What if I seek therapy for my fear of heights and falling? Is the skydiving lobby going to seek legislation to prohibit the therapy and cancel/dox me on social media.
What happened to “my body my choice” surely getting some words spoken to you, is less intrusive than killing a baby in it’s mother’s belly.
As Spock would say, illogical.
even if you’re a child you can take sex change drugs but you can’t have someone talk the gay out of you?
I was being facetious.
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