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.
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From the article:
" We share your concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth."
For those who are unsure....
More and more he seems to be filling out his Antichrist resume. He almost has the job skills and ideology down.
He may very well. If he is watch for him to leave the Country even while President. The Bible talks about the idol shepherd who leaves the flock. The flock may well be the Christians still many in this Country. Many think he will go for a 3rd term. Maybe he will, but if he is the aC he will leave while yet "the shepherd" to possibly enter into the international scene.
Seeing this kind of crud makes me depressed at how far our country has fallen.
The whole country has gone mad.
I used to have a live-and-let-live attitude. But look at what they’re doing:
The Alphabet Crew is a group of dictators. Banning this and that. Going on witch hunts.
By Alphabet Crew, I mean the so-called “LGBTQ+” (?). Apparently, now there are so many letters that they need a plus sign.
The sight of her face might excite a homosexual male....
He's been making noises (through his proxies) about trying to become the SecGen of the UN and to elevate the UN to a global government.
Why do you think Satan would punish his chosen son?
Obama just banned parents from allowing their kids to be subjected to gay conversion techniques? No more television, books, movies or DU.
One guy settled that locally with a 270 Winchester round thru the homo’s chest. No charges. Just a thank you note from the sheriff.
Q stands for Queer. I think it has a political meaning as compared with the other words comprising LGBT.
Are you implying that God is hardening the heart of Obama. If so, that would mean that Obama is doing what God wants him to do.
How will you stop it? And will you put the same energy and anger into stopping your daughter if she wants to use the boy’s restroom?
Of course.
Actually it can be Queer or Questioning or both, see detailed explanations below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT
I do not know what God is doing in regards to Obama’s heart.
Do you really have to ask?
Smith College’s undergraduate program is all women. I suspect that any school which has only children and young people of one sex will tend to result in more same sex activity than coed schools. British elite schools, especially for boys, have been notorious for having same sex activity and coercion. Prisons are notorious for homosexual rape, which is distinct from homosexual love. It is for power, as is homosexual coercion of younger students by older students. There is a difference in counseling for problems which may include sexuality, and specifically orienting and advertising a counseling form as one which will get rid of a specific problem. Very few major problems come from just one major source and limiting the goal obstructs the search.
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