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 Americas 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 individuals 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 childs 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 theyre from, the gender with which they identify, or who they love.
Jarretts 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.
Jarretts 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.
Mean? Geese, Thelma and Louise. Some of you guys get your undies in a wad over . . . . . . over what???? I simply told you where you were wrong. And told you where it is, the Book, THE Bible. That is what I told you. If you have problems with that, well . . . . . . . . . . that appears to be your issue.
“I would like everyone reading the thread to pity these children and young adults”
When a child pops up and claims to be a sodomite, the first question to ask is, “Who has been molesting this child?” Because I will guarantee you that they didn’t just come up with it on their own.
“The man is a complete lunatic.”
Unless you think, as do I, that his goal from the beginning was to do as much harm to the United States as he possibly could.
I agree.
And who the freaking hell do she think she is? She’s an ADVISOR, not a policy maker.
Congress needs to investigate her, and strip her of her SS detail even if it means stripping the entire SS budget.
Odumbo & his co-conspirator Jarrett can both WTH STFU with their abomidable LGBTQ+ crap. I see that Jarrett & 0dumb0 even included + at the end, for any perversity that they might have missed. These two are sick bastards, no doubt about it. Can’t wait for 0dumb0’s spawned girls to marry their pet turtles.
Only ten people were pure enough to be saved
Ten? How did you come up with that? Better go back and re-read the account in Genesis 19. God would have spared the city if only 10 were found, which they could not find even 10 righteous people.
It was only Lot, his wife, and Lot's 2 daughters. However Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt, so it ended up being only Lot & his 2 daughters = 3, not 10.
Actually none of them were "pure" enough to be saved. Lot was willing to turn over his two virgin daughters to be raped by the angry homo mob surrounding his house, and the angels had to yank Lot back into his house. Then the angels had to physically pull Lot out of the city. Later while dwelling in a cave in Zoar, both of Lot's daughters got Lot drunk and then commited incest with him and each daughter became pregnant. Thus from these offspring, two more nations were formed (Moab & Ammon) which hated & tormented Israel hundreds of years later after coming out of Egypt to the Promised Land.
Anybody that votes Democrat in any way shape or form since early 60`s, is basically saying they hate Jesus
Sadly, probably at least half of people who consider themselves Christians vote for liberal democrats who want to tell them how to raise their children. Before long it’ll be what they can preach in church. And they’ll still support them.
My mistake.
HIV+
The entire flawed premise underlying such nonsense is this pervasive notion that homosexuality is somehow existential. It is not. Homosexual acts are a choice, a sin like any other. There is no “gay” gene.
And what does the GOP have to say.....................................
Republican governors Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence caved in to the Corporate Elites and LGBT activists the other week and I guess that’s why attention has to focused on Obama’s views, not the Republicans who will be silent about them or cave into them.
I’ve never read all that stuff but it all makes sense based on other stuff I’ve read about some transgendered people and sexual abuse as children.
Plenty of good reasons for me to love and care about LGBT people with whom I identify.
I also love my country’s Constitution and its guarantees of free speech and religion which are now under attack by LGBT activists, assisted by business and political elites.
Exactly!
Lesson?
DON’T DO IT!!
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day...
And now, today, Moab is the only town in Utah on the Colorado river.
(And it’s been bought up and overrun with fleeing Californians!)
Sorry Obo, they identify as “queer” for a reason.
Go to hell mr president.
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