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.
We can unilaterally ban them: Homeschool.
If I recall correctly the deal with this online petition thing is if it gets X number of signatures then the White House has to issue a comment. So they commented. I don’t think anyone in Congress has sponsored a bill to end conversion therapy, and I doubt any such bill would ever make it out of committee.
First of all, Valerie Jarrett is not a representative of the people and second of all she is so phucking ugly that her face reminds me of the south end of an old bulldog headed north...nobody cares what she thinks...
It’s really hard to go anywhere and speak out on this stuff.
On Reddit, your posted can be voted up or down, which means anything that does not tow the homogenda gets a score of -6 in 2 minutes and disappears from view.
One of my local news sites employes the typical hipster leftist as moderators, so you say anything in dissent, and it gets removed.
It usually stands for queer.
Obamunists and gay bullies would prohibit you by law from teaching your children otherwise.
Not the point, really.
It’s the THINKING of your president and staff that’s crucial.
Did you watch the politicians caving in over Indiana’s “government can’t force Christians to sin” law?
They won’t. So who will? Please Lord, you promised in Psalms to punish your enemies.
It is going to happen. I have no doubts.
Tobacco is EVIL..................
Are you SURE this isn’t satire? if not, it’s CWII right now.
9/30/12
“California bans gay “conversion” therapy for minors”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/30/us-california-gaytherapy-idUSBRE88T0DR20120930
..... Congress would be needed to pass a national law that prohibited parents .......
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So the Left/Progressive/LGBGT+whatever-other-letters-you-want-to-add interpretation will be that if you, as a parent, teach your child from the Bible that homosexuality is a sin, then you will have violated the law they want, whether the law specifically states that or not. ValJar, Obama et al have the ultimate goal of making the Christian religion illegal.
LOL..Well, that sure is redundant. You would think that they would just get rid of the other letters in that acronym and just call themselves "Q". Simply amazing.
Sodom and Gomorrah did it.
Of course, they’re so gone now, one can’t tell they were ever there.
I’m sure this is from CNS and that they site the White House Website
He hasn't missed any of the decriptions yet. The antichrist is a faggot, too.....
Daniel 11:37 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
This is the Truth.
WARNING GRAPHIC!
http://factsaboutyouth.com/posts/health-risks-of-the-homosexual-lifestyle/
Young people: avoid intimate intestinal contact it leads to disease and tissue damage. A single load of virus will change your life forever.
OB???? as in OBIE? perhaps...
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