October 2, 2012

(PFOX) Statement excerpt: “Every week is a ‘banned books week’ for the ex-gay community. Books about leaving homosexuality are censored in most high school and community libraries, although gay affirming books are readily available. Arlington County, Virginia public schools accepted gay books for students from a local gay activist group, but Charlie Makela, the supervisor for Arlington Public School’s Office of Library Services, returned ex-gay books that PFOX had donated because she did not ‘believe the books are appropriate for our high school collection.’ Yet according to the ALA, the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if unorthodox and unpopular, is the reason for its Banned Books Week.” The link to the PFOX statement.

October 1, 2012

(World Net Daily) The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) will seek an injunction to prevent the implementation of SB 1172 – the California law that will prohibit therapists from providing sexual orientation change efforts to minors. An October 1st World Net Daily article quoted Mathew McReynolds of PJI, “The bill claims that sexually confused youth who experience ‘family rejection … face especially serious health risks’ and the state has a ‘compelling interest’ to protect their health. The logical implication from these two assertions is that the state is giving itself the power to take kids away from parents who do not affirm the kids’ sexual confusion.” The Liberty Counsel will also be filing a lawsuit against the bill on behalf of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Link to the World Net Daily article. Link to the statement by the Pacific Justice Institute.

October 1, 2012

(NARTH.com) Excerpt: “NARTH is saddened but not surprised by this unprecedented legislative intrusion and will lend its full support to the legal efforts to overturn it. California citizens and especially parents should know the indifference that supporters of this bill have toward their freedom of choice, as reflected in Senator Lieu’s recent acknowledgement that, ‘The attack on parental rights is exactly the whole point of the bill…’ The Senator went on to equate the harms to minors of smoking and alcohol abuse, which have been documented over decades of research, with the reported harms of sexual orientation change efforts, the prevalence of which the American Psychological Association admits we have no way of knowing.” (more…)

October 1, 2012

(SaveCalifornia.com) Excerpt: “With the stroke of his pen, Jerry Brown is locking vulnerable, molested children into homosexuality and transsexuality,” said SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson. “What could be more depressing than telling a molested boy he has no hope to be who God created him to be? And what’s more angering than telling parents of a molested child they can’t acquire professional counseling? This harsh law tramples parents’ God-given rights to help their own children recover from sexual trauma.” Link to the SaveCalifornia.com article.

October 1, 2012

(abcnews.go.com) Excerpt: “Therapy aimed at changing the sexual orientation of minors who say they are gay has been outlawed in California, the first state to adopt such legislation. California Gov. Jerry Brown announced he had signed the bill on Sunday. The bill’s sponsor, Calif. State Sen. Ted Lieu, said the so-called ‘conversion therapy,’ ‘sexual orientation therapy,’ ‘reparative therapy,’ or ‘sexual orientation change efforts’ — amounts to ‘psychological child abuse.’ Link to the ABC NEWS article.

September 27, 2012

The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has prepared an updated overview of their positions on a variety of issues involving homosexuality, including basic information on sexual orientation change efforts and the animosity the gay rights movement has toward NARTH. Fifteen questions are answered concisely and honestly. Link to NARTH’s answers to frequently asked questions.

September 19, 2012

(Mercator.net.com) Excerpt: “Wallace’s [head of the Australian Christian Lobby] figures are sound: a 20-year loss in gay life expectancy was reported by a homosexual lobby group in 2009. A 17-year loss in life expectancy among young HIV positive men was reported in 2008 in the Lancet medical journal, despite the very best anti-viral treatment, which is double the loss from smoking. In Australia HIV/AIDS remains overwhelmingly a homosexual disease: Wallace correctly quoted the Kirby Institute finding that over 80 percent of new cases of HIV/AIDS in Australia are in ‘men who have sex with men’.” Link to the article on Mercator.net.com.

September 11, 2012

Sun News network interviewed a former transgender identified man who found out later that a sex change operation was not what he needed. The United Kingdom resident’s sex change to a woman was paid for by the government. The man now says his desire to be a woman was a fantasy possibly related to his fear of dating a woman. Link to the Sun News network video interview.

August 31, 2012

(Excerpts from World Net Daily) In Barber’s article Family Studies professor Dr. Walter Schumm is quoted as saying “Unfortunately, there are many with an extreme socio-political agenda who depend entirely upon suppressing the truth.” [Schumm’s study found that “Children raised in ‘gay’ households are up to 12 times more likely to self-identify as ‘gay’”]

… “Indeed, left-wing backlash was both swift and fierce. Schumm was instantly decried as a ‘quack,’ a ‘conservative plant’ and a ‘fraud.’ Over the past two years, both Schumm and his study have passed through all three of Schopenhauer’s fiery stages, only to emerge unsigned.”

Barber also comments on the Mark Regnerus study and the reaction to it. Link to Matt Barber’s article in World Net Daily.

August 30, 2012

(Washington Times) “A California bill to ban therapies to ‘change’ sexual orientation in children and teens passed its final legislative hurdle late Thursday and now goes to California Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.”

… “Mr. Brown has not taken a position on SB 1172, and he has until Sept. 30 to sign, veto or allow its protections to take effect without his signature on Jan. 1, 2013. If enacted, the measure would be the first of its kind in the nation.”

… “Opponents say the Lieu bill — which only permits ‘gay-affirming’ therapies for minors — tramples on parents’ rights to care for their children and mental health professionals’ rights to offer the most optimal therapies to a patient, and it encourages ‘ex-gay bashing.’” Link to the Washington Times article.