Posted on 04/11/2015 3:07:29 PM PDT by wagglebee
Well yes it is, and child abuse in the name of “science” is nothing new (hello Kinsey and forebears).
I hope we give up on the idea of viewing this world as some kind of palette of innocence. It isn’t.
Royally screw with a child's hormones, before they can make decisions for themselves as a legal adult.
To me that is the ultimate in child abuse.
Do liberals ever listen to what they say?
Because it is LIBERAL “conversion therapy” it is just fine and dandy!
These folks are founts of arrogance. Logic is not expected.
Amen!
Obama and Michelle are probably bitter that they had to pay for hers with their own money.
What hath God wrought? At least Michelle is still a nanny. That is better than some alternatives.
Good Question. I seem to recall they were still hanging folks in early 1960 at Ft Leavenworth.
”The Eighth Amendment was also cited in a recent decision by the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, which told prison systems that total prohibitions on hormone treatments for transgender inmates is unconstitutional.”
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding constitutionally nonexistent rights, please consider the following. It is important to note that historical materials relating to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, the Supreme Court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore, and also the clarification of the 14th Amendment by John Bingham, Bingham the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A), all indicate that the rights expressly protected by the Bill of Rights originally did not apply to the states.
So even if it could be honestly argued that the Founding States would approve of subjectively reading the so-called right of indoctrinated transvestites to force taxpayers to pay for their the mutilation of their genitals into the 8th Amendment, such a right would not have applied to the states before 14A was ratified.
In other words, the 14th Amendment is the only way that constitutional rights can be applied to the states, but that’s not the end of the story.
What the corrupt federal government is wrongly ignoring is that the 14th Amendment only applies those rights which the states have expressly amended to the Constitution to the states, not so-called rights which activist judges, justices and the corrupt Justice Department are wrongly using “magic glasses” to subjectively read such rights into various constitutional statutes like the 8th Amendment and 14A’s Equal Protections Clause, presumably to win votes from low-information voters by doing so.
For example, the Supreme Court has historically clarified that the 14th Amendment did not create any new rights. That amendment applies only those rights expressly amended by the states to the Constitution to the states.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
But more importantly, note that the Court’s clarification of 14A reflects the clarification of that amendment in the congressional record by John Bingham, Bingham the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” —John Bingham, Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
So since the states have never amended Constitution to expressly protect “rights” like abortion and forcing taxpayers to pay for transvestites to mutilate their genitals, neither activist judges or justices, nor the corrupt Justice Department have any constitutionally enumerated protections that they can throw at the states regarding these issues.
Ted Cruz needs to speak out on this ....easy win on this issue....it is criminal and child abuse to allow a child to decide it wants to experiment with and modify its body.
Whats next, maybe they want to be a fish? Transplant gills and fins?
bump for later
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