One small step taken against a widely practiced form of child sexual abuse yesterday in California…<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia governor signs gay conversion therapy ban<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The thing to remember here is this only applies to licensed therapists, not pulpit thumping hate mongers who are still as free as ever to stick a knife in a kid’s heart and twist it in the name of Christ, and then twist it again in the name of love. \u00a0 But already the usual suspects are screaming bloody murder…<\/p>\n
In a statement on NARTH’s website, the group says the law will seriously jeopardize the livelihoods of “licensed therapists in California who would otherwise be willing to assist minor clients in modifying their unwanted same-sex attractions and behaviors.” It also will “supplant the rights of parents,” the group says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Note the reliable appeal to the rights of parents. \u00a0 But no parent has the right to subject their child to sexual abuse and ex-gay therapy is just that. \u00a0 If you think that’s hyperbole I strongly recommend you listen to the stories of the survivors of ex-gay therapy and compare them to the survivors of other forms of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
Kendall said the therapy he underwent “led me to periods of homelessness, to drug abuse, to spending a decade of my life wanting to kill myself. It led to so much pain and struggle. And I want them to know that what they do hurts people. It hurts children. It has no basis in fact. And they need to stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The self loathing. \u00a0 The shame. \u00a0 The despair. \u00a0 Blaming yourself for what happened. \u00a0 People need to look at what this practice does to children. \u00a0 And not just ex-gay therapy but the general cultural shaming and bullying of gay kids. \u00a0 Really look at it. \u00a0 This is sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
But the abusers won’t stop of their own accord. \u00a0 Oh no…the kids really wanted it you see…<\/p>\n
…the law will seriously jeopardize the livelihoods of “licensed therapists in California who would otherwise be willing to assist minor clients in modifying their unwanted same-sex attractions and behaviors…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What those kids want is to be loved. \u00a0 They don’t want to be abominations in the eyes of God. \u00a0 They don’t want their parents breaking down in tears, screaming at them that they’re ashamed to be their parents. \u00a0 They don’t want to be monsters. \u00a0 But who told them they were? \u00a0 No Mr. Nicolosi, those kids didn’t want you feeling up their souls, poking around in the most secret private places of their hearts, you just told yourself they did. \u00a0 That’s how it usually is with the seducers of the too young to understand.<\/p>\n
The only purpose this practice ever had is to make gay people hate themselves, and incidentally to excuse the righteous for hating them. \u00a0 You don’t have to be gay, so it isn’t our fault for making your lives miserable, it’s yours for being gay. \u00a0 You choose to be gay, so you choose to be persecuted.<\/em> There’s a political side to ex-gay therapy, as justification and cover for anti-gay politicians, but beneith the surface there’s the core value: homosexuals must hate themselves, must accept they are society’s outcasts.<\/p>\n