Posted on 04/09/2015 6:57:12 AM PDT by xzins
President Barack Obama, through a statement posted Wednesday night on the White House website by adviser Valerie Jarrett, backed legislation that would ban parents from having their children counseled not to be what Jarrett called "LGBTQ+".
“As part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, this Administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors,” Jarrett said in the White House statement.
“Conversion therapy generally refers to any practices by mental health providers that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” said the statement. “Often, this practice is used on minors, who lack the legal authority to make their own medical and mental health decisions. We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth.”
Jarrett conceded in her statement that an act of Congress would be needed to pass a national law that prohibited parents from having their children be counselled to be heterosexual rather than what she called “LGBTQ+."
“While a national ban would require congressional action, we are hopeful that the clarity of the evidence combined with the actions taken by these states will lead to broader action that this Administration would support,” Jarrett said.
She suggested that parents disserve their children when they do not accept them as “LGTQ+.”
“Family relationships are pivotal to the physical and emotional well-being of any child, including LGBTQ+ youth,” she said. “Every child needs love, support, and acceptance to grow, dream, and thrive. LGBTQ+ youth with supportive families and friends show greater well-being, better general health, and significantly decreased risk for suicide, depression, and substance abuse.
“Countless families and guardians across the country proudly support their LGBTQ+ children,” Jarrett said. “Too many LGBTQ+ youth, however, lack this support system, which can have devastating consequences. Negative family reactions to LGBTQ+ youth can be perceived as rejection by children, often contributing to serious health issues and inhibiting a child’s development and well-being. And when it comes to LGBTQ+ youth, some actions by family and caregivers can be harmful, despite even the best intentions.
“This Administration,” she said, “believes that young people should be valued for who they are, no matter what they look like, where they’re from, the gender with which they identify, or who they love.”
Jarrett’s statement was preceded by a quotation from President Barack Obama describing a “young man” who is “wrestling with a secret.”
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us -- on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.”
Jarrett’s statement was posted in response to a petition posted on the White House website in January that called for a “law to ban all LGBTQ+ conversion therapy." The petition had approximately 120,000 signers.
I've heard it stands for "Questioning" as in the poor disaffected soul is questioning his/her/its identity.
Pedophilia.
Interestingly, that which took Divine Intervention before can now be accomplished with nuclear weapons.
This is all based on a “sinful lifestyle choice”
Obama’s parents, whoever they are, should have been banned from even having children.
Political power based on gender, sexuality or race will lead to violence and civil war. Its an Alisnsky tactic.
Obama is setting American against American. He is uniting no one except his leftist supporters.Obama is one treasonous son of bitch, IMHO.
The most disturbing sign of the times is how the media, and much of the academic world, which has conditioned that media to eschew reason in favor of instant lip service to whatever idiocy the Left embraces at any given moment. will uncritically promote this as a new virtue.
The idea of claiming political authority--even at the Federal level--for suppressing parental authority to deal with troubled children, goes beyond anything any of the great satirists would have imagined even in their most extreme flights of fancy.
One has to pull the fingers back from the keyboard, and take a deep breath before continuing to even try to calmly describe what is happening to America.
That’s an interesting point.
God has allowed us the ability to bring our own judgment down on our own heads.
When I read of some of the creatures described in the book of Revelation, I can now see how that can happen through genetic engineering gone wrong.
Nevertheless, I do not think that it’s any less God’s judgment. It’s just that He’s letting us have what we want, a world without Him.
And that is the fruit of what mankind will do to himself without God’s divine intervention to prevent it.
Except if it's an abortion. Then the kids can make their own medical decisions.
As they say in NYC, here’s your Plan B pill kid, just don’t wash it down with a large soda or smoke a cig after sex.
We’ve come to a place where we’re actually encouraging mental illness in our children, let alone perversion and sin.
How did we get here?
Well said!
Yes. Watch for that. It's next on their agenda. They've already gone to the UN to have the age of consent lowered to puberty world wide (during Clinton adm). The UN was listening until it found out the "concerned citizens" were sent there by NAMBLA.
The homosexual males are attracted to small boys. In fact, the NAMBLA (men who "love" children) believe a man should be able to have sex (they refer to it as "love" just like all the other homosexual) with a male infant as soon as he's able to sit up by himself.
"Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth, for Satan has been cast down unto you having great rage, because he knows he has but little time."
When did it become “cool” to be gay?
We reach a point at which our society became open and “tolerant” of homosexuality, cross dressers, those with sex change operations, etc.
But now, it seems we have reached a point at which it is cool to be gay, cool to be trans-whatever.
To listen to some people, you would swear you just haven’t lived, and your life is not complete, until you have had your sex change operation. Geez.................
This is all about creating as much social chaos as possible so people with no moral foundation will become confused and seek grounding. The communists will proclaim they are the ones to supply the proper foundation for these “heads full of mush”, and the communist machine will march forward with new foot soldiers.
Troxel v. Granville
530 U.S. 57 (2000)
JUSTICE O’CONNOR, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE GINSBURG, and JUSTICE BREYER, concluded that § 26.10.160(3), as applied to Granville and her family, violates her due process right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of her daughters. Pp.63-75.
(a) The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause has a substantive component that “provides heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests,” Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 720, including parents’ fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children, see, e. g., Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U. S. 645, 651. Pp.63-66.
I was extending your argument - it’s no great leap in logic to have those riders attached to an already horrendous, morally bankrupt bill.
Yep, I was agreeing with you. And I do agree with you.
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