Posted on 06/08/2018 3:30:53 PM PDT by Ennis85
New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law on Friday a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors.
Medical and mental health professionals — including the American Medical Association — say the practice to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity is proven to be ineffective and can cause psychological harm to LGBTQ youth.
“Discrimination — in any form — is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die Spirit,” Sununu said in a statement, as reported by WMUR. “If we really want to be the ‘Live Free or Die’ state, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person, regardless of their background, has an equal and full opportunity to pursue their dreams and to make a better life for themselves and their families.”
The conservative group Cornerstone Action, which fought against the legislation, expressed disappointment in a statement calling for strengthening “the Christian base” of the New Hampshire legislature.
"I expected Governor Sununu to stand by Christian principles and veto these bills, but he didn't," Cornerstone executive director Shannon McGinley wrote. "Yes, it's discouraging. We fight to win. The fight is almost always close, but somehow with the grace of God, we've prevailed in some important battles. This time we didn't. And it's a big loss."
New Hampshire becomes the 13th state to ban the practice, and Delaware is close behind to become the 14th.
Legislators in the General Assembly passed the measure on Thursday and it now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. John Carney, who is expected to sign it into law, according to WDEL Radio.
Sununu also signed a bill on Friday that extends protections against workplace, housing and public discrimination to transgender people, according to WMUR news.
Exactly!
This is talking about becoming exgay
And this might again be part of the cited reasoning in some future USSC decision. It seems that when it comes to this, states can’t help but BE poopy heads about it.
They should ban it both ways until person is 21.
Gays say they are born that way.
If that’s true, then one day they will discover the gay gene.
If that happens, then one day your doctor will not only be able to tell you whether your pre-born baby is a boy or a girl, but also whether your bundle of joy will be straight of gay.
So ....
In NH and these other states, at that point it’ll be okay to kill (abort) your pre-born gay baby (something Christians wouldn’t do, but atheists or Muslims might), but illegal to let it be born and then try to nurture out the gay nature of your child.
Heck, it could be a Seinfeld episode:
Lady: Jerry, my baby is going to be gay! I know that shouldn’t bother me ... but I want to be a grandmother one day and I don’t want another kid.
Jerry: OK, so it’s not too late to end it, and you could start over, try again, and maybe next time it won’t be gay ... not that there’s anything wrong with that.
unconstitutional.
People should be allowed to be who they are or who they want to be
No. Learn to obey.
Who is the state to tell people they can’t have that option?
The State.
Next question, please?
Yup
“Straight” from PsychologyToday.com:
First published in 1968, DSM-II (the American classiifcation of mental disorders) listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In this, the DSM followed in a long tradition in medicine and psychiatry, which in the 19th century appropriated homosexuality from the Church and, in an élan of enlightenment, transformed it from sin to mental disorder.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) asked all members attending its convention to vote on whether they believed homosexuality to be a mental disorder. 5,854 psychiatrists voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM, and 3,810 to retain it.
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The APA then compromised, removing homosexuality from the DSM but replacing it, in effect, with “sexual orientation disturbance” for people “in conflict with” their sexual orientation. Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out of the DSM.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) only removed homosexuality from its ICD classification with the publication of ICD-10 in 1992, although ICD-10 still carries the construct of “ego-dystonic sexual orientation”. In this condition, the person is not in doubt about his or her sexual preference, but “wishes it were different because of associated psychological and behavioural disorders”.
The evolution of the status of homosexuality in the classifications of mental disorders highlights that concepts of mental disorder can be rapidly evolving social constructs that change as society changes. Today, the standard of psychotherapy in the U.S. and Europe is gay affirmative psychotherapy, which encourages gay people to accept their sexual orientation.
Neel Burton is author of The Meaning of Madness (link is external) and other books.
John Henry Sununu is a Cuban-born Palestinian-American.
yes i see, thanks very much !
(do you think many people change over? i guess some do?)
best,
fhc
The number of former homosexuals is very large.
Sorry gov, homosexuality is already “psychological harm”.
Liberals Bully Good People To Accommodate Perversion: LBGPTAP. My own abbreviation about their loathsome agenda.
OK .. great! thanks
Did you expect something else from a state that went from very conservative to full blown communist?
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t sure about the success rate. I agree with what you said.
Sununu and Romney were like so close. MA and NH are bordering states as you might figure.
What gives anyone the right to take away from someone that wants
to be free from their homosexual urges, any help they might want?
It makes no sense.
The Sununus were always RINOS, patrons of David Souter.
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