Posted on 10/17/2022 6:04:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
Policy Researcher Dr Carys Moseley comments on the new proposals in Scotland to ban ‘conversion practices’.
Proposals for ending ‘LGBT conversion practices’ in Scotland were published last Tuesday by an Expert Panel advising the Scottish government. The report assumes a radical misinterpretation of children’s rights and denies that its recommendations infringe religious freedom and freedom of expression. These policy proposals amount to the worst in the world so far. Overall they would criminalise prayer, consensual conversations, quoting certain Bible passages, and some preaching among other things. This amounts to a shocking infringement of fundamental freedoms.
Here, I will outline the most important recommendations. They span both criminal and civil law.
Extending domestic abuse law beyond the home
The report proposes that the law on coercive control, a crime under domestic abuse law, should be extended to cover ‘conversion practices’. It complains that domestic abuse legislation only covers control by ‘partners’ or ‘ex-partners’.
The problem is that the report overall implicitly targets ‘conversion practices’ in all kinds of settings – not only people’s homes – including ‘organisations’, i.e. churches, schools, hospitals, etc., and both the private (charitable and business) and public sectors. Thus, the law on coercive control would effectively be extended to all settings in Scotland. Such a move, making domestic abuse law the basis for legislation across the entire private and public sectors, is unprecedented anywhere in the world.
Threat to remove parental rights
The report wants the Scottish government to be able to remove parents’ rights to bring their children up if they are found guilty of ‘conversion practices’.
“In addition to the possibility of an increased sentence, the Group recommends that, where the perpetrator of any of the criminalised acts has parental or guardianship rights in relation to the victim, the legal consequences may include the modification.......
(Excerpt) Read more at christianconcern.com ...
Democrat scum will do the same.
Laddies are laddies. Lassies are lassies.
They voted for it.
Vladimir Putin strikes again...sarc
Is not what the educrats are doing to our children an overt conversion policy?
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