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.
President Obama wants to end conversion therapy because he’s angry it didn’t work for him.
“There were no Christians in Sodom so I know things can’t get quite that bad.”
I believe there were lots of “Christians” in both Sodom and Gomorrah. I think there were Christians much like the ones who, in this day and time, attend all those “tolerant” mega churches and denominations that will let homosexuals profane the altar of their churches by performing marriage ceremonies for them; Christians who call themselves such until being a Christian interferes with their ability to make money or be accepted on the social scene. I also believe that those “Christians”, just like many of them today, thought they could equivocate, twist and subvert what The Word says to suit their convenience. Those today most likely do fully believe that they are good and tolerant Christians and will believe that until they’re swept away along with the jobs, salaries, positions and social and political standings that they gave their souls to protect.
Lot choose the well-watered plain; thinking that the lifestyle of those already there would not affect his family.
“Never in the history of mankind has homosexuality and lesbianism been held up as superior to heterosexuality.
Rome came close, with its pure tolerance, but never has anyone elevated it ABOVE heterosexuality.
This will not end well.”
Least of all for the families of said kids that will very much more likely end because of it.
Living under the tyranny of the present FAG fad is likely to be detrimental to the survival of many American families, who have unfortunately as a group failed to produce offspring in the numbers necessary to overcome such losses, now much more difficult to recover.
As Obama’s government will force us to just give up on our children’s future and thus also the family line, it will be the doom and decline for many of us.
No problem!
Homosexuality is the gateway to hell.
Homosexuality is demonicism.
Satan is the Queer king
LSMFT lol Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco or Lets Screw My Fingers Tired
Will they also ban the use of 1-2-3 Magic for home discipline? The elastic clause of the Constitution has snapped.
When a child lives under my roof they abide by my rules, if they don’t like it they can move. If they want to visit they have to abide by my rules if not don’t bother coming. This is called zero tolerance and it is a well used liberal tool.
As for Ms. Jarret and Barry Sorento they can kiss each others backsides.
legislation? WTF???
That gay Muslim creep cant get his attorney general confirmed, little or no chance that a gay rights bill will get to his desk.
He needs to spend more time on ISIS and less time on sodomy rights and rituals. He seems more and more like Satan's child.
OK, Jim ... so how do we respond to this real and present DANGER - the ULTIMATE THREAT to our liberties? Oh, yeah, as if this fascist bunch will leave it to Congress to pass legislation ... as if such a law could ever be considered valid. Does any individual here still think it not yet time to take up arms against these Marxist infiltrators? WTF are we going to wait for them to do next? The 3 AM knock on the door - followed by a bullet to the head? I really do think it is time to shoot are so-called leaders ... Do it to them before thay eventually come around to us.
“Never in the history of mankind has homosexuality and lesbianism been held up as superior to heterosexuality.
Rome came close, with its pure tolerance, but never has anyone elevated it ABOVE heterosexuality.
This will not end well.”
I can think of two cities where homosexuality and lesbianism were held up as superior to heterosexuality, and, no, it did not end well.
So it’s wrong to counsel my kid not to engage in wild behavior and not pass themselves around as a party refreshment? IMHO, that’s what’s wrong with society in a nutshell.
No, it’s not that graphic, it’s actually pretty tame.
And it will probably be divine intervention to assure that the human species doesn’t die out as a result of nuclear war. Beyond surviving the Fallout period of 1-2 weeks, without mechanized infrastructure, it is easily estimated that most of those who survived will die off of starvation and dehydration, and even disease since they don’t have clean water to drink or food to buy at a store, for a long time. But even evil punishes evil, as Jehu, a worshipper of Golden Calves, annihilated the entire family of Ahab, who used his power as absolute Monarch to enforce Baal-worship upon Israel.
There have been issues with the special reproductive technologies that now mean that plenty of people are half-siblings and don’t even realize it.
These people are sick, perverted and themselves living a strong delusion.
Guess what, boys are boys and have certain gender based on their SEX you idiots.
A person who has male sex organs but “decides” they are a female need precisely mental health intervention to seek to cure their delusion.
Same goes for a girl with her sex organs who wants to pretend she is a boy.
Trying to ban the parents of children so afflicted from getting the mental health care that their kids need it what is sick, twisted and...to call it what it is in plain talk, PERVERTED.
I would fight to the death to get my children the help they need.
Some of these people are just dumber than a bucket of rocks.
Others, know EXCALTY what they are doing.
Those type seek to weaken America and American families. They are treacherous, treasonous and evil.
Why not just make it official and make NAMBLA a federal agency and make the head of NAMBLA a cabinet officer.
Call it the Department of Sodomy, with a Secretary of Sodomy.
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