Posted on 04/17/2018 6:45:20 AM PDT by fwdude
Imagine if a young person was struggling with a drug addiction, or a gambling addiction, or a sexual addiction, but the government passed laws saying these people could NOT get help, therapy or treatment in dealing with these unwanted addictions or attractions.
Most people would be utterly shocked at such heartless and fascist interference by the state. They would correctly argue that people should have the right and the freedom to make such choices for themselves, and should not be denied help when they desperately want it.
Yet this is happening throughout the West when it comes to people who are struggling with, and do not want, same-sex attractions. Plenty of jurisdictions are making it illegal to actually offer such people the help they crave. Talk about a bullying pink Big Brother. Talk about the erosion of freedom and human rights.
This is happening here and overseas. Let me look at the latest skirmish of this here – and a derelict lamestream media – and then focus on what is happening in America. In Victoria the Melbourne Age – is once again showing its true colours.
I have documented for decades now how left wing and unbalanced the Fairfax press is in general, and the Age in particular. As I was putting the finishing touches on this article, I came upon another piece which says much the same thing. So let me insert here the words of Mark Powell:
“The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other than their own. And what’s more, they’ll publicly name and shame anyone who does.” Exactly, and the Age article under question is a perfect illustration of this.
It begins with this really ‘ominous’ headline: “Guy under pressure to allow gay ‘conversion’ therapy for kids”. Shock horror! The Opposition leader Matthew Guy has actually had some branches saying we should not turn helpers into criminals.
Yet the Age thinks this is the worse thing there is, and rounds up all their buddies to make comments, while refusing to let just one voice from the other side have a hearing. The piece begins by noting those who are offering the proposal:
Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy is under pressure to give parents greater access to gay ‘conversion’ therapy for their children, with sections of the Liberal Party set to push the issue at this month’s state council meeting. A motion by a conservative Liberal branch linked to Federal MP Kevin Andrews has called for state legislation allowing health practitioners “to offer counselling out of same sex attraction or gender transitioning to patients who request it”.
The rest of the piece features lefties who are criticising this. It offers quotes from three critics of this idea: the co-convenor of the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby; the Labor Government Mental Health Minister; and the spokeswoman for Parents of Gender Diverse Children.
Yet not one single word is offered by those working in this area or by who those who have been helped by such counselling. What a sick joke. And this piece was penned by an “Investigative Reporter” and a “Transport Reporter”.
What, “Transport”? You mean they roped in any old pro-homosexual who wanted to push a hobby horse. And “investigative”? You mean an indoctrination reporter. Decades ago the Age decided it would stop reporting the news – at least in a fair and balanced fashion – but would just push radical leftist ideology, and ignore completely any other voices.
This article is a perfect example of this. The Age, like so much of the mainstream media, is simply a con. It does not report on the news, it makes news. It simply pushes leftist agenda items, and does not bother anymore to even appear to be even-handed.
Pink Big Brother in America
As mentioned, this idea of actually preventing young people from getting the help they so desperately need is happening elsewhere, including in a number of US states. Around a dozen states in America and several dozen cities already have laws on the books which ban any sort of therapy for those who are unhappy with their same-sex attraction.
These jurisdictions have decided that such people will NOT be allowed to get the assistance they so strongly crave. Talk about a rainbow Brave New World in which the state determines how people are supposed to live and feel, criminalising any helps and therapies it considers not to be PC enough.
One of the most recent cases of this involved California. Michael Brown wrote it up at the time and he is worth quoting from here. He begins his piece as follows:
In a brazen assault on our most fundamental freedoms, California legislators are considering a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to receive professional help to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion. This would apply to people of all ages. People of all religious and moral convictions. It is an absolute outrage, and it must be opposed vigorously.For the last few years, a growing number of states and cities have embraced legislation making it illegal for minors struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion to receive professional help, even with the full support of their parents.
And this Big Brother assault on our freedoms will also apply to churches. Brown continues:
This defies all logic and can be seen only for what it is: a frontal assault on our freedom to self-determination. A frontal assault on our freedom of religion. And a frontal assault on our freedom of conscience. Make no mistake about this. As ADF attorney Matt Sharp explained on my Line of Fire broadcast, this legislation will extend into the churches.For example, let’s say your church has the policy of offering free pastoral counseling for all tithing members. That means a financial transaction is involved in those services. So you, a member in good standing, want to receive some much needed counseling. You’re a married father of four, but you struggle deeply with gender identity confusion. You set up an appointment with one of the pastors, only to be told, “It is illegal for us to help you.” I am not exaggerating.
He continues:
What makes this even more outrageous is that 1) there are thousands of ex-gays who can personally testify to their own transformation, 2) there are gay and lesbian psychologists who argue against the myth that homosexuality is innate and immutable, and 3) most children who identify as transgender no longer do so after puberty.And remember: while California seeks to pass this monstrous legislation, it has no problem backing a psychologist who will help a man embrace his alleged male and female identities simultaneously. Or a counselor who will help someone embrace his alleged animal (or alien) identity. All of that is fine. But to help someone be at home in his own body would be illegal….
Anne Paulk, an ex-lesbian herself, said positive counseling outcomes for people dealing with unwanted same-sex attractions are higher than positive outcomes for those dealing with alcoholism. Yet no one in his right mind would seek to ban professional counseling or therapy for alcoholics.
No, this California assault on our most fundamental freedoms is simply the latest manifestation of LGBT activism. As I and others have warned incessantly for many years, those who came out of the closet want to put us in the closet. Do you believe me now?
Yes I too have been warning about this for decades now. It gets worse with each passing day. The homosexual activists – and their MSM allies – are at bottom heartless bullies and coercive utopians who will NOT allow any dissent and countering points of view. All opposition WILL be stamped out.
Welcome to Rainbow Totalitarianism. But we really did warn you.
We must stand up against the perverts. This has gone too far. Stop pandering to or acquiescing to the mentally ill.
Homosexuality gains numbers primarily through “recruitment”. It makes perfect sense that the militants would try to block any and all activities that would stymie their efforts.
It is a war...
I don’t see how a type of psychotherapy can be not protected by the First Amendment.
Especially when most psychotherapy of any type is a dismal failure.
Gay men give enormous amounts of money to politicians and love to have major hissy fits in front of the White House and other institutions to cow the inhabitants. I’ll never forget living near the United Nations and being bombarded by the sounds of a gay rights march that ended on First Avenue. Through the windows of my apt., all afternoon, came the singing of “Over the Rainbow.” Don’t even remind me of the horrors of the Act Up Fascist Movement.
Separate issue.
An oldie - but worth including in this discussion:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575153/posts
It's relevant here. Homosexuals and their leftist handlers will defend psychotherapy all day (a highly disproportionate number of homosexuals receive it) with dubious results, and yet, they'll say that "reparative" therapy is ineffective. They are the queens of hypocrisy.
You found Larry Kramer less than completely perfect? Tsk tsk.
Excellent article by Ronald G. Lee, someone who saw this culture and its motivations from the inside.
Separate from the debate over its effectiveness.
I was twice caught in an Act Up riot. Once at a B’way play where President Reagan attended. The star, Keith Carradine, stopped the show and had the group thrown out. Always liked him after that.
The sodomites were allowed to leave the closet—big, big mistake. Now, the coprophiliacs, the lesbos, the same-sex pedophiles, the gender sick, are all expected to foist their mental and physical diseases on the normal.
Homosexuality gains numbers primarily through “recruitment”. It makes perfect sense that the militants would try to block any and all activities that would stymie their efforts.
It is a war...””
The sex offenders continue in their demands to access children of other people. They are winning.
“It is a war...”
And high time we recognize it as such.
#FreeKate proves your statement.
So why are homosexuals allowed to recruit in schools, the media and everywhere else they go? It takes sexual abuse or indoctrination to create one.
These people suffering sound like they have multiple identities, which is caused by childhood sexual abuse.
The people who are pushing this perversion, if they do not repent, will face an extremely angry Christ Who will hurl them into the eternal flames.
Sin angers Him on general principle, but there are sins that He especially hates: hindering people from coming to Him and hindering people from following Him and the sin of corrupting children is expressly singled out for an exceptionally severe judgment.
Those who are pushing this are treading on very dangerous ground, spiritually speaking.
Read Matt. 18:6 and Luke 17:2.
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