Posted on 12/13/2021 6:48:42 PM PST by marshmallow
Over 500 church leaders from across the UK have written to the government to say they are prepared to face criminal charges if a conversion therapy ban is introduced.
In the letter, they say that they will "continue to do our duty to God" even if the proposed ban comes into force.
"It should not be a criminal offence for us to instruct our children that God made them male and female, in his image, and has reserved sex for the marriage of one man and one woman. Yet this seems to be the likely outcome of the proposed legislation," they write.
"We therefore very much hope (and pray) that these proposals will be dropped in their current form. We have no desire to become criminals, and place a high value on submitting to and supporting our government.
"Yet we think it important you are aware that if it were to come about that the loving, compassionate exercise of orthodox Christian ministry, including the teaching of the Christian understanding of sex and marriage, is effectively made a criminal offence, we would with deep sadness continue to do our duty to God in this matter."
(Excerpt) Read more at christiantoday.com ...
The United Kingdom and Canada our allies against China both have these kind of laws.
No wonder China is winning?
I don’t understand the ban at all....
It’s hard to believe they would jail people for trying to help someone, but there it is.
if the person getting the conversion therapy is an adult who has consented to the therapy. It is no one’s fucking business. In fact, anyone who interferes should be open to lawsuit over interfering with the treatment.
The story seems to have some disconnects.
It specifies ‘conversion therapy’, which should be administered by a mental health professional (and I don’t believe there should be any law against that, if an individual wants to avail himself of it.)
But the people in this article seem to be just a various bunch of people who are willing to go to jail for... what? Expressing a religious opinion? Last I heard, that wasn’t ‘therapy’.
Canada just passed a ban on “conversion therapy” for ALL people, not just minors. It didn’t take long for that fascism to metastasize.
Soon it will extend to free, non-professional counseling, or even “prayers” for the afflicted.
The “conversion therapy” angle is just subterfuge for a more sinister intent. You can be sure they’ll interpret even prayers to help homosexuals overcome their urges and lifestyles as “therapy” for purposes of dragging them to court.
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