Posted on 05/19/2015 1:34:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The push to end so-called “conversion therapy” against homosexuality is expected to gear up Tuesday with the introduction of a House bill to ban the therapy nationally.
The bill comes a few weeks before a consumer fraud lawsuit described as a “David and Goliath” battle over the therapy begins in New Jersey, and in the wake of a request for a federal probe into whether the therapy’s marketing and practices are “deceptive” and “dangerous.”
Opponents of sexual orientation change efforts, such as Reps. Ted W. Lieu and Jackie Speier, both California Democrats, say being homosexual is not a disorder or illness, and efforts to change one’s sexual orientation are wrong and harmful.
Supporters of such therapy counter that it has helped many people successfully reduce or eliminate their unwanted same-sex attractions, and it’s wrong to trample people’s rights to seek the counseling of their choice.
Mr. Lieu’s new bill, the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, was prepared after President Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said the White House supported a national ban on “conversion” therapy for minors.
“I am ecstatic that the leader of the free world has called for an end to gay ‘conversion’ therapy. And I commend President Obama for recognizing ‘reparative’ therapy for the crappery that it is,” Mr. Lieu told a reporter for Frontiers Media on Monday.
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Yes, IMO, #3 is almost too good to be true. She’s been my desktop background since I found the pic a week or so ago.
Well, I hope it was a good experience. :)
I can’t seem to find which clause of the Constitution delegates that power to Congress. I’ll keep looking...
If you had a problem with out-of-control heterosexual impulse --- say your sex drive was was getting you in trouble at work and at home --- would you be cured by looking at pictures of hunky men?
Exactly.
Or to help retarded people learn.
Just as examples.
We are truly living in Absurdistan.
Didn’t you get the memo... freedom to practice living in accordance with moral issues must thoroughly be stomped.
No you think about baseball.
OMG my heart skipped a beat at the sight of these girls. OMG, this is a good start at conversion therapy. Make your imagination run as you think about them as a companion, girlfriend, wife.....
I would think any truth-based examination of the issues would show that these liberals are heavily cherry picking at best, outright lying at worst.
“If you don’t agree gay is okay, we will clobber you!”
Well they are Democrats, so that means they don't know what they are talking about.
People who have had serious family/abuse issues need more reflection than that. This is the kind of thing that is examined and addressed in these therapies that the liberals are trying to shriek down.
Sorry, Mrs. Don-o. Not sure what you’re saying, but I’m sorry anyway. :)
It’s like they have shown antidepressants to be “harmful” — not considering who is going to be most likely to want to take them in the first place. If it ain’t perfect it has to be from hades, goes the thought process.
I agree with them.... to classify it as a 'disorder' is wrong and simply inaccurate. It's a perversion and it's sin.......
sounds like someone’s afraid they could be forced into treatment...or might lose 80% of their staff.
And what does that get anyone but an academic picky point for you to crow about?
Drunkenness is a sin yet we do not talk that way about alcohol addiction therapies.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Repubs are standing against nothing, and for nothing.
They are worthless. They are happy to let us slide along, they think it’s a done deal the pendulum will shift a repub into the presidency. They just want to be the dictators.
It is truly, truly sickening. Nobody stands up for anything decent anymore.
Maybe that’s because everyone including those who are complaining about it are not bothering to stand up for God, centrally, first.
Yeah, I feel that way, too. It does seem that Cruz is a brave soul, though.
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