Posted on 02/21/2018 8:01:03 AM PST by Kaslin
An Ohio court has removed a teenaged girl from the custody of her parents because they refused to consent to dangerous and experimental medical treatment. The teenager wants to undergo irreversible treatment (hormones and probably sex-reassignment surgery) that she hopes will alleviate the depression associated with her gender dysphoria based on 1) the scientific facts that such treatment will convert her into a lifelong medical patient and probably fail to alleviate her suicidal tendencies, 2) their religious belief that created reality is unalterable, and 3) their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their minor child, the parents said no.
But the court concluded they have no right to make that decision. If they reject the radical new orthodoxy that replaces science with ideology, their authority to act for the good of their child is simply extinguished.
This shocking decision can be traced to the Obergefell case, in which the Supreme Court discovered a right to same-sex marriage. Leftists and libertarians assured us the ruling would be harmless, but the Ohio case illustrates the tragic shortsightedness of that position.
LGBT ideologues had no intention of stopping with the legal sanction of marriage. Their goal was twofold: to eradicate the significance of biological sex differences entirely, regardless of the damage done to innocents; and to silence and ultimately obliterate any dissent, if necessary by dismantling social structures and belief systems. The ideologues are winning.
With breathtaking speed, the universe of innocent people being damaged has expanded to include creative professionals who decline to participate in same-sex wedding events; girls who object to sharing shower facilities with biological boys; female athletes who can’t compete with bigger, stronger male athletes; mental-health professionals who adhere to the science about sex and gender; soldiers whose very lives depend on having emotionally and physically stable comrades; and vulnerable children who are being pushed into life-altering decisions they are incapable of making.
Innocents must suffer to achieve utopia. But utopia will remain elusive if dissenting institutions are allowed to remain. What sorts of institutions? Families and religions.
An early attack on families – specifically on parental authority -- was the 2005 refusal of Massachusetts public-school administrators to let parents remove their children from classroom lessons equating heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Because same-sex marriage was legal in the state, the court ruled, schools could ignore parents’ wishes about their children’s education. The Ohio court has now extended that concept to denying parents’ wishes concerning the medical treatment of their child.
But it could get worse. The argument for limiting parents’ rights can be easily extended to limiting couples’ rights to be parents in the first place. Soon, couples who disagree with the LGBT agenda will be deemed unfit for adoptive or foster parenthood. This has already happened in Great Britain and Canada, where Christians have been banned from providing families to needy children.
It’s happening in this country as well. Illinois bureaucrats have imposed a policy that only couples who embrace all aspects of the LGBT creed may foster a child who identifies as L, G, B, or T. A similar view was expressed at a recent Senate hearing in Georgia, where a Methodist minister lectured that adoption agencies or prospective parents who disagree with her support of LGBT ideology shouldn’t be allowed any role in adoptions or fostering, period.
If Biblical/traditional views about sex and marriage disqualify a couple from adopting or fostering, the logical next step is to deem parents who hold such views unfit to raise their biological children. The Ohio court has taken the first step down that road, which leads to the radicals’ attack on religion as well as families.
Attempts to protect faith-based child-placement agencies from having to violate their religious principles as a requirement for state licensure have provoked outrage. (This was the context of the Methodist minister’s tirade.) The faith-based principles must be stamped out, even if needy children suffer as a result.
In this worldview, no religion should be allowed to dissent in any forum. As the Solicitor General admitted in the Obergefell argument, Christian schools will probably have to abandon the tenets of their faith in personnel and other policies. When quoting Scripture has become “hate speech,” clergy will do so at their peril. The radicals have already come for the sermons; can further persecution be ruled out?
Reasonable Americans must understand that it’s folly to try to compromise with these sexual ideologues. As long as parents are allowed to retain any authority over their children, and religions are allowed to teach anything contrary to the new orthodoxy, the revolution will be incomplete. Noncompliant individuals and institutions must therefore be destroyed.
This isn’t merely a political dispute. It’s a battle over civilization itself.
they have been able to do this for a long time.
The Human Rights Commissions in each state is actually a tribunal to punish non leftist thought and behavior and to promote leftist anti-American activities.
These are the people who ruin the lives of conservatives.
Fine. I’d cut off all communications and support for the 17 year old and the grandparents.
Didn’t this mental affliction used to be correctable through hypnosis, creating the belief in the sufferer’s mind that they loved being the gender into which they were born?
I post this over and over because it’s relevant:
Bad things happen when governments pretend.
-Pretending that witches are real lead to unjustified executions.
-Pretending that blacks aren’t fully human lead to slavery.
-Pretending that Jews aren’t fully human lead to the holocaust.
-Pretending that preborn babies aren’t fully human has led to millions of abortions.
-Pretending that homosexuality is normal has now led to the state taking an ill child from loving parents.
They can only if we allow it.
So when this young girl commits suicide 8 years from now can her parents sue the Ohio Government for causing it?
— Benjamin Franklin
Add my vote to that proposition!
This is just sick and shows how far down we have fallen.
Yes, it is a battle for civilization itself.
One that we are losing.
This paragraph exactly aligns with Paul's discourse on the ravages of sin on mankind in Romans 1. If you read the passage carefully, it becomes clear that homosexuality IS the punishment, not just one of the sins being punished. It is no surprise that the gay movement leaves nothing but chaos in its wake.
Just one question, if I may.
Just exactly WHO has to pay for all this sh#t?
Sex “re-assignment” surgery isn’t cheap.
"The Human Rights Commissions [??? emphasis added] in each state is actually a tribunal to punish non leftist thought and behavior and to promote leftist anti-American activities."
With all due respect to Ohio Freepers, I suspect that the constitutional protections listed below are not being taught in Ohio, the citizens of Ohio consequently not able to protect themselves from activist state officials.
Here are the main constitutional safeguards which give the federal government the power to rescue citizens from activist states that dare to abridge the enumerated rights of citizens.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
"14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
The problem is that we’ve still got a corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that has repeatedly shown that it is not willing to lift a finger to exercise its constitutionally enumerated powers to make punitive laws to discourage activist state officials from abridging the likewise enumerated rights of their citizens.
In other words, patriots all over the country need to rescue the citizens of Ohio and other activist states from the abridgment of their constitutional rights by those states by finishing the job that they started when they elected Trump president in 2016.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriots candidates on the 2018 primary ballots who will be willing to make punitive laws to make sure that the states respect constitutionally enumerated rights, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of Alabama's special Senate election, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
Hypnosis in this case would be used to find the initial sensitizing event - the root cause - as perceived by the person. Then the hypnotist would help the person through dialogue to resolve the issue. The hypnotist acts as a coach for the subconscious.
We still have a way to go before we hit bottom
Transgender issue is a weapon to change society norms and enact legislation facilitating LGBT access to potential sex partners, especially the mainstreaming of pedophilia and enabling sexual predators
The end result will be a NAMBLA pedo engaging in a homosexual “ relationship” with your 12 year old child and when you try to intervene YOU are the one that gets arrested and drug through a court system hostile to you and allied with the Pedos ( who will no longer be pedophiles, they will be lionized members of society exercising their basic human right to engage in beautiful, meaningful sexual relationships with your pre teen children)
We are almost there. A strong argument could be made that we already are there
The country has gone from a tranny’s picture on the cover of a national magazine, to the government ending your parental relationship with your children!
It went as planned, for the leftists. The horse$hit about “inclusive” bathrooms should have been a warning, that they were not just kidding. This was the original goal: the destruction of the parent-child bond in order to block parents from giving their children their value system.
It is extremely difficult to have any optimism about the future, given the events presented here. Trump was our last hope.
I meant every word I said here.
btt
That looks like a fat lesbian.
Probably because it is...in spite of a possible “procedure”* being done.
* addadictomy
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