Posted on 02/09/2021 6:10:42 PM PST by marshmallow
Conversion therapy—the use of psychological or spiritual interventions to attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity—has proved controversial in the U.S. It is banned in the case of minors in some twenty American states. The District of Columbia bans such therapies completely, regardless of age. Such laws could be viewed as government support for the LGBTQ+ cause, but they do not need to be seen entirely cynically. They could well reflect a desire to protect the vulnerable from paying for treatments that legislators consider to be bogus.
The state of Victoria in Australia, however, just passed a bill that will considerably intensify the conflict between religious freedom, individual choice, and identity politics. And it might well become a model for laws elsewhere in the democratic world.
The legislation that just passed is the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020. Its basic intention is “to ensure that all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, feel welcome and valued in Victoria and are able to live authentically and with pride.” It is hard to argue with that, both because the aim seems laudable enough (who wants to live in a place where she does not feel valued?) and because it embodies the nebulous jello-speak of our current therapeutic age. Feeling valued and living authentically are useful, empty phrases that sound wonderfully reassuring but can be given whatever content the month dictates. I assume, or at least hope, that those whose “sexual orientation” leads them to abuse underage minors are unlikely to feel welcome and valued in Victoria despite this new legislation.
The law defines a change or suppression practice as follows:
a practice or conduct directed towards a person, whether with or without the person's consent on the basis of the person's sexual orientation.................
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If they’re “born that way” and “prayer doesn’t work”, what’s the problem?
They haven’t banned conversion therapy. It’s allowed to recruit, train, drug and mutilate normal kids into trannies.
You have to remember that this is mainly Melbourne in Victoria. Melbourne is like Seattle, you cannot find a much further left city in Australia, and run by the Labor Party, supported heavily by the Greens and very far left Australian Broad Casting network (ABC).
All are welcome to live with pride, aye? What about proud whites?
My stepdaughter and friends are guarded about being straight because it’s so cool to be gay, trans, bi, pansexual, etc. It says a lot that being black and straight is something you have to hide.
Prohibiting the unseen. Arrogant dumbasses.
C’mon Joe, it’s your turn now to be a pr*ck.
Prohibiting the unseen. Arrogant dumbasses.
C’mon Joe, it’s your turn now to be a pr*ck.
Live with Pride.
Who will they complain to for relief when the Holy Spirit convicts them in their conscience?
Pride goeth before destruction.
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