Posted on 04/20/2018 3:02:09 PM PDT by ebb tide
The California Assembly passed legislation today broad enough to ban the sale of books that address helping people overcome unwanted same-sex attractions.
AB 2943 cleared the chamber by a “bipartisan” vote of 50-14, CBS Sacramento reports.
The measure adds “[a]dvertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual” to the state’s list of illegal “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer.”
“Sexual orientation change efforts” are defined as “any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation.” Other states have enacted narrower bans on “conversion therapy,” also known as reparative therapy, for minors, but CBS Sacramento that California’s is the first in the nation that would also prevent adults from voluntarily obtaining the treatment.
“The State of California has no right to deny its residents the resources to help them find happiness or to shut down counselors, schools, and religious organizations that provide those services,” California Family Council president Jonathan Keller said of the vote. “Every person experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria must be allowed to pursue help in achieving their desired goals and outcomes.”
The bill is unprecedented for another reason, too: by classifying the subject under prohibited “goods,” which critics say means it would go so far as to ban the sale of books endorsing the practice, as well as other forms of constitutionally-protected speech.
“At its core, AB 2943 outlaws speech,” Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) legal analysis of the bill reads. It says that licensed counseling, religious conferences, book sales, and paid speaking engagements could all potentially face legal penalties for promoting ways to reverse unwanted attractions or for expressing traditional Christian teachings on sexuality.
ADF further notes that the section of California’s civil code pertaining to “deceptive acts or practices” expressly “commands that it be ‘liberally construed and applied,’ Cal. Civil Code § 1760, resulting in prohibitions against [sexual orientation change efforts] potentially being applied beyond the confines of a traditional counseling relationship to many other constitutionally protected activities.”
The Associated Press notes that some lawmakers questioned Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low, who introduced the bill, as to its implications. Low claimed that preaching and other forms of speech would be safe; only advertising or selling conversion therapy would be illegal.
"This is a bill that would be overturned by a higher court on the grounds of the First Amendment," Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper said, unconvinced.
The United States Constitution expressly forbids laws “abridging the freedom of speech” or “prohibiting the free exercise” of “religion. The California Constitution declares that “[e]very person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects,” and that “[f]ree exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed.”
The bill now moves on to the state Senate for consideration. If the Senate passes it, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign it into law.
Unconstitutional. Appaently our state assembly thinks Calexit has already appened.
“....Liberals are the most intolerant, bigoted, stingiest, polluting, angry, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, war-mongering, conservative black hating, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created....”
Ummmm.....I think you forgot to add “insane” to the list. :)
Ya know, I think I did!
Liberals are the most insane, intolerant, bigoted, stingiest, polluting, angry, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, war-mongering, conservative black hating, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.
Oh yes, you will be gay. It will be mandatory.
Fixed it.
The original Nazis began as a Homosexual group. I'm not making this up. The SS and SA was filled with homosexuals, the worst, most sadistic camp guards were homosexuals.
About six years ago, some people were mocking me for suggesting stuff like this might be coming.
Are they going to burn them too?
The perverts are trying to recruit.
Why is questioning always assumed to be full tilt homo with no hetero desires? Some homos will even insist that bisexuals are just in denial.
Did the Weather Underground and Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple leadership just happen to recruit exclusively homosexual/bisexual leadership or did they pressure and persuade heterosexuals to experiment or even forcibly submit to homosexual intercourse?
They are damn well guilty of what they are accusing others of.
Is that Zuck on the left?
haha
“...How about blocking internet access?...”
Well, kind of! Keep in mind, these people are deceived and possibly nuts.
4/4/18
California has gone nuts.
You were so close.
Inmates running the asylum. Criminally insane.
intentional child abuse.0
Oh my don’t you just hate it when you elect people and they go Dictator on you ,LOL
California thinks it has lots of money; an enterprising person would stop reading this and go write a schlock book on the subject, then put it up on Amazon. When this is declared unconstitutional...ka CHING.
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