Gay conversion therapy

'Modest' gay conversion therapy resolution advances in Assembly

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/21/california-lawmakers-advance-resolution-condemn-gay-conversion-therapy/1501606001/

California won't be expanding its current limitations on gay conversion therapy anytime soon, but this week the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed a resolution condemning the practice.

ACR 99, authored by Assemblyman Evan Low, D-San Jose, calls upon faith leaders to embrace the benefits of community acceptance for LGBTQ individuals and acknowledge “psychological and other harms of conversion therapy." The committee passed the resolution on Tuesday.
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As expected, right wing heads exploded.

From the Federalist:

In a resolution that recently passed the state assembly, “the Legislature calls upon all Californians to embrace the individual and social benefits of family and community acceptance” of LGBT people. It singles out especially faith-motivated individuals and organizations.

These legislators make a very ugly accusation against such people. California lawmakers are planning to spread the idea, with the power and moral authority of the state, that such religious beliefs actually kill people, including children.

Do Religious People Make Others Commit Suicide?

Let it sink in. Christians, Muslims, and Jews, your beliefs make gay people kill themselves. If this is indeed true, we are among the worst of the worst kinds of people. These legislators believe this is true and are doing something about it. California is trying to insist that churches, synagogues and mosques, their leaders, congregants, grade schools, universities, and families fully and uncritically support homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities in every way.

Thus, any teaching, preaching, writings or practices that are faithful to the clear sexual instructions of these faiths will be beyond the pale of official California values. They will not be tolerated. This charge makes this legislation overwhelmingly serious and consequential because of the seriousness of this charge. Either one party is directly culpable for deaths or the other of making such a dreadful allegation.