Conversation therapy isn’t a freedom of speech issue. This form of therapy is nothing more than pedophilia and other abuses approved under the guise of “saving our children.”
Having grown up in an ultra conservative family, I can see right through this scam wrapped in the Constitution folded into a Bible.
Conversion therapy is bigotry to the highest degree imaginable. On top of the bigotry, there’s the physical, mental and sexual abuse “patients” are subjected to is beyond the pale. There is nothing Christian about the things done during a conversion therapy session.
In my opinion, young people that attend conservative Christian churches are pre-subjected to conversion, or at least prevention, therapy without the potential of openly condoned (physical/sexual) abuses. The mental abuse visited on the youth in the same of god is severely damaging.
Individuals that are thinking they might be queer are being shamed for who the inherently are. Children that are in fact not queer are being taught all of the rhetoric, fear and hate that allows them to see LGBTQ folks as less than, be it in the eyes of their god, their church leaders and by extension themselves.
I only have experiences rather than education and study data, which may make my opinions hold far less water than those of many others. That said, usurping an individual’s right and ability to live authentically should be considered a violation of their constitutional rights.
The right to potentially mentally, physically or sexually abuse others should not be protected under the Constitution of the United States. If we are allowing this kind of thing to happen, why are we not publicly disclosing information about all manner of abuses and normalizing them? WHO am I to say though, right?
Conversation therapy isn’t a freedom of speech issue. This form of therapy is nothing more than pedophilia and other abuses approved under the guise of “saving our children.”
Having grown up in an ultra conservative family, I can see right through this scam wrapped in the Constitution folded into a Bible.
Conversion therapy is bigotry to the highest degree imaginable. On top of the bigotry, there’s the physical, mental and sexual abuse “patients” are subjected to is beyond the pale. There is nothing Christian about the things done during a conversion therapy session.
In my opinion, young people that attend conservative Christian churches are pre-subjected to conversion, or at least prevention, therapy without the potential of openly condoned (physical/sexual) abuses. The mental abuse visited on the youth in the same of god is severely damaging.
Individuals that are thinking they might be queer are being shamed for who the inherently are. Children that are in fact not queer are being taught all of the rhetoric, fear and hate that allows them to see LGBTQ folks as less than, be it in the eyes of their god, their church leaders and by extension themselves.
I only have experiences rather than education and study data, which may make my opinions hold far less water than those of many others. That said, usurping an individual’s right and ability to live authentically should be considered a violation of their constitutional rights.
The right to potentially mentally, physically or sexually abuse others should not be protected under the Constitution of the United States. If we are allowing this kind of thing to happen, why are we not publicly disclosing information about all manner of abuses and normalizing them? WHO am I to say though, right?