In the form of California AB 2943. Essentially this bill would make it unlawful to market the idea that homosexuals can change their desires. Slaves to the flesh I guess. But then, who you desire to have sex with is as physiological as your lungs and gall bladder. It's your gender that has nothing to do with your physical body. Thus post-modernity.
Of course it's none of the sort. Go to any bona fide science/psych.org to the Q&A section, look up 'why are people gay?', and you'll see variations on 'We don't know, seems they think they can't help it, that's good enough for us.' From a mental health counseling POV (if I may dust off my old licence and cert. for counseling from my pastor days), that's akin to saying 'he seems to think he's Napoleon, that's good enough for me.'
Any thinking person can tell there are likely many reasons different people have same sex attraction. They could be predisposed, they were raised that way, external factors, cultural, they just can't get lucky with someone of the opposite sex, whatever. The thought that all with same sex attraction are clones of each other therefore can't change is as wrong as the thought that all men are rapists and can't stop. This idea that Lady Gaga was the final, definitive statement on the subject, and it's time to legally punish anyone who disagrees, is one more travesty in a long list of travesties that the modern Left has hoisted on society.
The lack of foresight is shocking. To start a precedent that it's illegal to 'market an idea' that some behavior which is directed towards a certain desire could be changed seems beyond foolish.
ReplyDeleteHow does that not, in time, blow the doors open for anyone with any behavior that is directed towards some desire to also claim "Hey, trying to change my behavior is illegal."?
I guess those that are trying to market ideas of behavioral change should just claim something like "No, no.... I'm not doing anything illegal. It's just my desire (a desire which I can't change) to try to change the behavior of other people."
I'd love to see the bottom of the slippery slope where secular arguments accrue. Must be getting cluttered around that knoll.
Well put. I think it's time to put away this notion that the modern Left is about tolerance, diversity, or inclusion. It's about consolidating power. Those who try to compromise traditional values and ethics born of the previous 2000 years of Christian and Western culture with the modern Left would be just as well to find a recipe for kosher ham.
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