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US supreme court appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’
(www.theguardian.com)
So much for states rights
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States rights has always meant that states have the right to do exactly what republicans want them to do, nothing more.
Turns out everything they ever said was a lie.
It was only ever about states' "right" to be bigoted and otherwise abuse minority populations.
The civil war wasn't even about the North trying to stop slavery in the South. It was about the South not being allowed to force other states to abide by the rules of slavery.
Specifically, they wanted states that had abolished slavery to allow slave catchers to arrest and return escaped slaves within their borders.
Sound familiar?
Licensing boards should refuse to issue licensure/revoke or suspend based on it causing harm. Therefore, no board certified or licensed therapist could practice lawfully, at the very least.
Yes! Those boards have a great deal of power here to de-legitimize these evil quacks. At the very least, keep these monsters in the fringes where they belong. God help us when the NatC’s get enough power to require health insurers to pay for conversion torture.
Hell yeah. Lets torture some children because they aren’t their parents perfect little cishet angels.
This from a country that thinks children are their parents' property and not themselves individual people.
Re-education camps for all fascists once Trump is gone pls
Throw them in Alligator Alcatraz.
And let the alligators in.
(Not that they eat junk food, but it should be entertaining until they realize that.)
You want diabetic alligators? Because that's how you get diabetic alligators.
naw. gators don't eat junk food. Kinda the reason Florida Men are so... you know... common, down there.
might as well outsource it to chinas, re-education camps.
If this is free speech, then I should be able to exercise my free speech to use conversion therapy on cristians too then?
They’d have to revoke Harvey Milk’s psychiatry license.
Christianity is a hate cult. Keep your children, friends & family away from these monsters.
All religions are a mental defect.
Buddhism seems pretty chill now a days
There is currently a genocide being perpetuated in Myanmar by Buddhists with religion playing a part of the nationalist identity.
Unfortunately we have yet to find an ideology that we can't use to justify harming those who don't share it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_Buddhist_nationalism
Every religion has its assholes. Hate is not inherent to religion in general.
Clearly civilised society cannot exist if Christians have any power over it.
fascists don't have AIDS to do the heavy lifting for them this time around, wonder if they are really up for this fight
everyone know these "conversion camps" are lgbtq+ go to have sex anyways, so it doesnt deter them anyways, maybe if its the ultra-religious groups.
Hey... no. These camps are incredibly harmful and traumatic to the survivors.
I urge you to seek out and listen to them describe the experiences in their own words.
Downplaying this as "lol, they'll all just hook up and have a good time" is disgusting.
They also tend to be full of child molesters as one of the things child molesters often have in common is they are self hating repressed gay people. These places are full of old men who want to sexually abuse young boys. Not to mention that conversion therapy in of itself is child sexual abuse and mentally abusive, by both the families and the freaks running these places. Trump is a giant pedophile. He is protecting the pedophile rings because Trump is a giant pedophile. The child molesters love places like conversion therapy camps because it means both that the parents are extremely stupid, have almost no concern with their child's well being, nor particularly care about them, and also the children are extremely vulnerable and the people who work at places like that which aren't pedos, are borderline retarded. It's like the perfect place for child predators to thrive. This is not an accident but quite intentional. It's a way for Trump's goons to profile and single out people to be abused.