Attempt to ban Homosexual 'conversion' therapy fails 4 times in 2019
Jun 30, 2019 05:51:14 #
There is a continuing war for the soul of our nation.
2019, thus far, has seen attempts to legally ban 'conversion' therapy fail 4 times
Analysts say Supreme Court ultimately will strike speech limits set forth in pro-gay laws.
The current legislative year, recently concluded in many states, saw four huge failures for proponents of state-by-state bans on so-called “conversion” therapy in which counselors are not allowed to help juveniles overcome unwanted same-sex attractions.
The activist group Mass Resistance, which has defended the speech rights of counselors, noted several more states adopted the restrictions this year, but the movement has failed in several others.
“We believe that all reparative therapy bans will eventually get struck down by the courts,” Mass Resistance’ report said. “In NIFLA v. Becerra, the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ‘professional speech’ is just as protected as any other speech. This signaled that they are prepared to strike down reparative therapy bans across the country.”
The NIFLA case was about California’s requirement that pro-life crisis pregnancy centers promote nearby a******nists. The high court said the state couldn’t do that.
“More recently, in Vazzo v. Tampa, a federal district judge in Florida struck down the Tampa Bay reparative therapy ban which had passed the previous year. The district judge relied on the legal opinion of the majority ruling in NIFLA to establish his own decision,” Mass Resistance said.
“Shortly after the passage of a ban on reparative therapy for minors in Maryland, Virginia-based therapist and pro-family activist Chris Doyle filed his own lawsuit against the law in Doyle v. Hogan et al. According to some reports, the federal district judge in that state respects and follows closely the legal precedent of the Supreme Court, which very likely means that he will strike down Maryland’s reparative therapy ban.”
The developments – “two different federal jurisdictions fighting this agenda, plus our own legislative activism and victories against these bans” – mean that the U.S. Supreme Court likely will need to step in to resolve the issue.
And that court, Mass Resistance said, “will likely fall in favor of protecting the First Amendment and the rights of parents and children to pursue reparative therapy.”
States that adopted restrictions on the First Amendment in earlier years included New Jersey, California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii, Delaware, Maryland and New Hampshire.
The victories in 2019, Mass Resistance said, included in Utah, where the Mormon Church “has slowly eased off its formerly strong stance against the L**T agenda” and “pro-family” politicians are becoming “soft” on the issue, the report said.
But following a dispute over amendments, the legislation never was v**ed on, the report said.
In Nebraska, “a particularly odious reparative therapy ban was filed” that would have “officially deemed ‘conversion therapy'” an abuse.
But Nebraskans testified against the plan, and hundreds of emails to lawmakers spelled out the problems in the proposal.
The bill failed.
In Minnesota, lawmakers initially failed to adopt a proposed speech ban, but a special legislative session was called and the issue might arise again.
“Members of our Minnesota MassResistance team took nothing for granted. Throughout the state, our activists called their State House Reps and Senators to state their opposition to any ban on reparative therapy. Having heard loudly and clearly from citizens across the state, the final Health and Human Services budget included nothing on conversion therapy.”
The fourth victory came in Arizona, where lawmakers determined the proposal would not be heard before legislative deadlines, making it dead for the current session.
Losses for the campaign included in New York, where attention was focused on a “horrible” a******n law allowing a******n up to and during birth.
Mass Resistance said that left “far-left Democrats” in the majority were in a position to push through a ban.
“Within a few weeks of the new 2019 session, a flood of hideous legislation sailed through so quickly that conservatives had little opportunity to react. The whole legislative process was very sleazy and dishonest. These three bills were passed and signed into law within the first month: a full-on reparative therapy ban, a bill stipulating rights for so-called t*********r individuals, and most radical pro-a******n law in the United States,” the report said.
Massachusetts saw the ban approved after pro-L**T leaders in the legislature “engaged in shady tactics, often keeping the public in the dark” about the plans.
Colorado also was a forgone conclusion, with the Democrats in the majority in the legislature and the “openly homosexual and aggressively left-wing” Jared Polis in the governor’s office.
In that state, lawmakers also were busy adopting a “sex-ed bill” that bans teaching the facts about abstinence only in schools, diverting the attention of pro-family advocates from the therapy ban.
The idea for the speech restrictions on counselors originated in California. WND reported weeks ago when a lawsuit challenging the ban on licensed counseling of minors seeking to curb or eliminate same-sex attractions was refiled.
Liberty Counsel said it would refile Pickup v. Newsom in a California district court and work the case back up to the U.S. Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel said such refiling is rare but not unheard of in instances in which the Supreme Court establishes a precedent during the course of a case.
2019.WND.com.
2019, thus far, has seen attempts to legally ban 'conversion' therapy fail 4 times
Analysts say Supreme Court ultimately will strike speech limits set forth in pro-gay laws.
The current legislative year, recently concluded in many states, saw four huge failures for proponents of state-by-state bans on so-called “conversion” therapy in which counselors are not allowed to help juveniles overcome unwanted same-sex attractions.
The activist group Mass Resistance, which has defended the speech rights of counselors, noted several more states adopted the restrictions this year, but the movement has failed in several others.
“We believe that all reparative therapy bans will eventually get struck down by the courts,” Mass Resistance’ report said. “In NIFLA v. Becerra, the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ‘professional speech’ is just as protected as any other speech. This signaled that they are prepared to strike down reparative therapy bans across the country.”
The NIFLA case was about California’s requirement that pro-life crisis pregnancy centers promote nearby a******nists. The high court said the state couldn’t do that.
“More recently, in Vazzo v. Tampa, a federal district judge in Florida struck down the Tampa Bay reparative therapy ban which had passed the previous year. The district judge relied on the legal opinion of the majority ruling in NIFLA to establish his own decision,” Mass Resistance said.
“Shortly after the passage of a ban on reparative therapy for minors in Maryland, Virginia-based therapist and pro-family activist Chris Doyle filed his own lawsuit against the law in Doyle v. Hogan et al. According to some reports, the federal district judge in that state respects and follows closely the legal precedent of the Supreme Court, which very likely means that he will strike down Maryland’s reparative therapy ban.”
The developments – “two different federal jurisdictions fighting this agenda, plus our own legislative activism and victories against these bans” – mean that the U.S. Supreme Court likely will need to step in to resolve the issue.
And that court, Mass Resistance said, “will likely fall in favor of protecting the First Amendment and the rights of parents and children to pursue reparative therapy.”
States that adopted restrictions on the First Amendment in earlier years included New Jersey, California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii, Delaware, Maryland and New Hampshire.
The victories in 2019, Mass Resistance said, included in Utah, where the Mormon Church “has slowly eased off its formerly strong stance against the L**T agenda” and “pro-family” politicians are becoming “soft” on the issue, the report said.
But following a dispute over amendments, the legislation never was v**ed on, the report said.
In Nebraska, “a particularly odious reparative therapy ban was filed” that would have “officially deemed ‘conversion therapy'” an abuse.
But Nebraskans testified against the plan, and hundreds of emails to lawmakers spelled out the problems in the proposal.
The bill failed.
In Minnesota, lawmakers initially failed to adopt a proposed speech ban, but a special legislative session was called and the issue might arise again.
“Members of our Minnesota MassResistance team took nothing for granted. Throughout the state, our activists called their State House Reps and Senators to state their opposition to any ban on reparative therapy. Having heard loudly and clearly from citizens across the state, the final Health and Human Services budget included nothing on conversion therapy.”
The fourth victory came in Arizona, where lawmakers determined the proposal would not be heard before legislative deadlines, making it dead for the current session.
Losses for the campaign included in New York, where attention was focused on a “horrible” a******n law allowing a******n up to and during birth.
Mass Resistance said that left “far-left Democrats” in the majority were in a position to push through a ban.
“Within a few weeks of the new 2019 session, a flood of hideous legislation sailed through so quickly that conservatives had little opportunity to react. The whole legislative process was very sleazy and dishonest. These three bills were passed and signed into law within the first month: a full-on reparative therapy ban, a bill stipulating rights for so-called t*********r individuals, and most radical pro-a******n law in the United States,” the report said.
Massachusetts saw the ban approved after pro-L**T leaders in the legislature “engaged in shady tactics, often keeping the public in the dark” about the plans.
Colorado also was a forgone conclusion, with the Democrats in the majority in the legislature and the “openly homosexual and aggressively left-wing” Jared Polis in the governor’s office.
In that state, lawmakers also were busy adopting a “sex-ed bill” that bans teaching the facts about abstinence only in schools, diverting the attention of pro-family advocates from the therapy ban.
The idea for the speech restrictions on counselors originated in California. WND reported weeks ago when a lawsuit challenging the ban on licensed counseling of minors seeking to curb or eliminate same-sex attractions was refiled.
Liberty Counsel said it would refile Pickup v. Newsom in a California district court and work the case back up to the U.S. Supreme Court
Liberty Counsel said such refiling is rare but not unheard of in instances in which the Supreme Court establishes a precedent during the course of a case.
2019.WND.com.
Jun 30, 2019 10:04:15 #
Zemirah wrote:
There is a continuing war for the soul of our nati... (show quote)
Medical professionals including shrinks are regulated in the interest of public health. Uneducated people can not practice medicine nor can a doctor apply quackery without risking loosing their license and even prosecution. So called conversion therapy has been determined to be very damaging and homosexuality is no longer considered a psychological disorder. 70 years ago a doctor might have encouraged smoking as a treatment for asthmatics now that it is understood to be a health risk this is not allowed. Conversion therapy is no more protected free speech than a doctor prescribing an underweight toddler a beer diet to put on a few pounds.
Jun 30, 2019 13:45:18 #
Counteracting the godless pro-homosexuality propaganda now being shamelessly peddled upon children as young as kindergarten age is not "practicing medicine," Kevyn.
It is allowing them to grow to adulthood as the person they were born to be.
The N**i tactics used by militant homosexuals against the American Psychiatric Association is well known, and has been often explained throughout the years, as below:
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/40860-the-gay-bullies-strike-again
"Bullying and intimidation have been standard operating procedures for many gay activists for more than 60 years. Why should they change their approach now?
In the early 1970s, gay activists became famous for their “zaps,” which were strategically timed, carefully staged hit-and-run protests meant to humiliate and intimidate their opponents. According to gay historian David Eisenbach, zaps were used successfully by gay activists to push TV executives to portray homosexuality sympathetically and positively: “TV executives discovered they could avoid zaps and bad publicity by having gay activists review scripts that dealt with homosexuality before they were aired."
In other words, "Write the scripts the way we like it, or incur our wrath."
Zaps were also used to disrupt meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in protest of the its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. The Rainbow History Project, which celebrates gay pressure tactics, posted a report entitled “Zapping the Shrinks” (originally published May 3, 1971), boasting about the “disruption by gay activists at the [APA’s] 1970 convention in San Francisco.”
At this convention, activists carried out a special “zap” during a high point of the conference. The activists burst into the conference hall and pushed their way past a number of elderly psychiatrists who tried to stop them. And there was no mistaking who the intruders were. The report says, “Half of the men were in really fabulous d**g with wildly painted faces, that accentuated the spontaneous, liberating attitude of brothers in d**g.”
This is some of the background leading up to the APA’s momentous decision to depathologize homosexuality in 1973, which means this was hardly a matter of dispassionate scientific debate—as even the gay activist scientist Simon LeVay noted in his book Q***r Science: “Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality.”
Terrorist tactics, in other words, Kevyn, both then and now, for without the t***h on their side, that's all they have had and that is all they will ever have!
It is allowing them to grow to adulthood as the person they were born to be.
The N**i tactics used by militant homosexuals against the American Psychiatric Association is well known, and has been often explained throughout the years, as below:
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/40860-the-gay-bullies-strike-again
"Bullying and intimidation have been standard operating procedures for many gay activists for more than 60 years. Why should they change their approach now?
In the early 1970s, gay activists became famous for their “zaps,” which were strategically timed, carefully staged hit-and-run protests meant to humiliate and intimidate their opponents. According to gay historian David Eisenbach, zaps were used successfully by gay activists to push TV executives to portray homosexuality sympathetically and positively: “TV executives discovered they could avoid zaps and bad publicity by having gay activists review scripts that dealt with homosexuality before they were aired."
In other words, "Write the scripts the way we like it, or incur our wrath."
Zaps were also used to disrupt meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in protest of the its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. The Rainbow History Project, which celebrates gay pressure tactics, posted a report entitled “Zapping the Shrinks” (originally published May 3, 1971), boasting about the “disruption by gay activists at the [APA’s] 1970 convention in San Francisco.”
At this convention, activists carried out a special “zap” during a high point of the conference. The activists burst into the conference hall and pushed their way past a number of elderly psychiatrists who tried to stop them. And there was no mistaking who the intruders were. The report says, “Half of the men were in really fabulous d**g with wildly painted faces, that accentuated the spontaneous, liberating attitude of brothers in d**g.”
This is some of the background leading up to the APA’s momentous decision to depathologize homosexuality in 1973, which means this was hardly a matter of dispassionate scientific debate—as even the gay activist scientist Simon LeVay noted in his book Q***r Science: “Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality.”
Terrorist tactics, in other words, Kevyn, both then and now, for without the t***h on their side, that's all they have had and that is all they will ever have!
Kevyn wrote:
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Jul 1, 2019 09:58:48 #
Zemirah wrote:
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Amen and Amen excellent article Zemirah thanks for posting this.
Jul 1, 2019 10:27:58 #
Zemirah wrote:
There is a continuing war for the soul of our nati... (show quote)
Happily, this dangerous "conversion therapy" s**m is illegal in many states.
Jul 1, 2019 12:55:57 #
Even more happily, are the victories being scored on the behave of "conversion therapy," which is a misnomer for the common sense, "t***h be told" method of countering and vanquishing the satanic evil set loose upon our children by the lies of homosexual militancy.
kemmer wrote:
Happily, this dangerous "conversion therapy" s**m is illegal in many states.
Jul 1, 2019 12:59:20 #
Thank you, bahmer, for your faithfulness to God's word, and to the common sense he has given to all those willing to receive it.
bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen excellent article Zemirah thanks for posting this.
Jul 1, 2019 13:03:47 #
Zemirah wrote:
Even more happily, are the victories being scored on the behave of "conversion therapy," which is a misnomer for the common sense, "t***h be told" method of countering and vanquishing the satanic evil set loose upon our children by the lies of homosexual militancy.
“Therapy” is as effective in changing one’s orientation as it is in changing one’s blood type.
Jul 1, 2019 13:23:20 #
Wrong!
Orientation is changeable. Blood type is inherited.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orientation
Orientation definition is - the act or process of orienting or of being oriented.
Blood Type:
A blood type (also called a blood group) is defined as the classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). There are two distinct chemical molecules present on the surface of the red blood cells, molecule "A" and molecule "B". A series of related blood types constitutes a blood group system, such as the Rh or ABO system.
Orientation is changeable. Blood type is inherited.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orientation
Orientation definition is - the act or process of orienting or of being oriented.
Blood Type:
A blood type (also called a blood group) is defined as the classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). There are two distinct chemical molecules present on the surface of the red blood cells, molecule "A" and molecule "B". A series of related blood types constitutes a blood group system, such as the Rh or ABO system.
kemmer wrote:
“Therapy” is as effective in changing one’s orientation as it is in changing one’s blood type.
Jul 1, 2019 13:30:37 #
Zemirah wrote:
Counteracting the godless pro-homosexuality propag... (show quote)
Why don’t you just post a link to this garbage instead of cutting and pasting?
Jul 1, 2019 13:32:55 #
Zemirah wrote:
Wrong! br br Orientation is changeable. Blood typ... (show quote)
Hahaha... Sexual orientation is immutable. But you know what they say about fools and their money...
How much do these charlatans charge to supposedly change a sexual orientation?
Jul 1, 2019 13:40:45 #
kemmer wrote:
Why don’t you just post a link to this garbage instead of cutting and pasting?
You can't negate t***h by calling it garbage.
The link was provided.
Jul 1, 2019 15:05:18 #
Rose42 wrote:
You can't negate t***h by calling it garbage.
But I can negate lies which is what that nonsense was.
Jul 1, 2019 15:09:14 #
Zemirah wrote:
Wrong!
Orientation is changeable.
Orientation is changeable.
One can be induced to perform as a straight, but one remains gay—and unhappy.
Jul 1, 2019 15:40:14 #
kemmer wrote:
But I can negate lies which is what that nonsense was.
No it was t***h. Wants do not t***slate into t***h.
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