Posted on 12/16/2021 10:40:06 AM PST by Mount Athos
The Canadian Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping ban on conversion therapy after senators agreed to fast-track the bill through the legislative process without extensive debate, committee study or votes.
Bill C-4, which received royal assent Wednesday, amends the Canadian Criminal Code to criminalize causing someone to undergo conversion therapy, taking a child out of Canada for the purpose of conversion therapy, profiting from the provision of conversion therapy, and advertising or promoting the practice.
Penalties for the new offenses range from two to five years in prison.
Previous versions of the bill failed in Parliament, but the current bill goes further than other editions by prohibiting consenting adults from seeking conversion therapy, which it defines in part as counseling intended to “repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior.”
Also banned is therapy meant to “repress a person’s non-cisgender gender identity,” as well as “repress or reduce a person’s gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth.”
Critics of the bill claim that its definitions are overly broad to the point of violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), which endorsed the bill, defines conversion therapy as “any formal therapeutic attempt to change the sexual orientation of bisexual, gay and lesbian individuals to heterosexual.”
Marty Moore, an attorney with the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, said Bill C-4’s definition “goes much further than that.”
“This piece of legislation is by far the most direct attack we’ve seen on freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and religion,” said Moore. “The Charter violations present in this bill are very concerning.”
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You have to ask is this something government should be doing?
Don’t worry. Canada will still allow people to forcibly convert you to Islam.
That is RAPE.
They are banning RAPE THERAPY!!!
The West’s hyper-individualist society encourages you to make any change, or become anything you want to be.
If you are fat, and want to be thin, if you are shy and want to be popular, if you are bald and want to have hair, if you are a man and want to be a woman - its all OK! We have a book, pill, or program for you!
But if you have homosexual attractions and don’t want them? Sorry! You’re stuck as you are!
So you can convince someone they’re transgender or gay… but it’s now illegal to convince someone they’re straight.
And remember We ArE tHe ScIeNcE
One way ratchet only...
You’ll be a faggot or do t years dammit!
Sodom & Gomorrah!
So, homosexuality is a one-way street?
Like Islam, right? Once you are in, there’s no going back!
This is when everybody, especially teachers, should Push and Push transgenderism to the Children of ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEE’S
Vote for feminists and homosexuals and this is what you get.
There is no gay Gene. There are only two biological sexes. This law sits on a foundation of lies. Canada has reached the point of no return.
It is not the children’s fault their parents are monsters. The sins of the father should never, ever fall to the children. If they are already being raised around adults with this attitude they will have a huge hill to climb to come out of it “normal”.
A wise federal circuit judge asked at a Federalist Society panel something like “who has standing to object to an individual’s choice in this matter?”
An attack on our rights to do what we please in our own home. Funny that a person can “convert” from heterosexual to homosexual but not the other way around. Essentially Canada outlawed conversion to heterosexuality. What is as sick is the so called conservative party voted WITH the other parties to pass this sickness.
Exactly. So does this mean if I tell my 11 year old son who is confused and is not in fact gay, I can do 2 years jail time?
We reached that point 4 or 5 years ago.
The Canadian kakistocracy should be declared to be terrorists. And Canada should be removed from Five Eyes.
Exactly.
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