For those confused about the bandwagon the Louisville Southern Baptists and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors have climbed aboard, the news tells us each day that these men have picked a winner. Everyone is busy passing laws preventing fathers and mothers from getting any help teaching their sons to be masculine and their daughters to be feminine. This is the heart of the issue. To instruct and counsel children to embrace who God made them, sexually, and to forsake any desires they may suffer under to commit the sins of effeminacy or butchness is being criminalized around the country.
Meanwhile, Al Mohler,1 Heath Lambert,2 Denny Burke, and the professional association of "certified Biblical" counselors have all announced they are also opposed to parents getting this help for their children.
It's such fine synchronicity when the world and the church both realize at precisely the same moment precisely the same sexual reforms that are needed. It makes the work of deconstruction so much easier.
Along with California, Oregon, New Jersey, Cincinnati, and the District of Columbia, New York has criminalized this therapy.
And now New York is taking it a step further by putting financial teeth behind these laws. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo just took executive actions directing the state's Department of Financial Services to...
disallow insurance coverage for conversion counselling for anyone under the age of eighteen. He also directed the state's Department of Health to bar any coverage from the state's Medicaid program for such counseling. He also gave orders to his state's Office of Mental Health prohibiting any of its facilities from being used for this counselling.
Let the reader understand this movement is spreading like wildfire aided by Southern Baptists and "certified Biblical" counselors.
Let the reader also understand that these laws and executive actions leave us in the situation, as in Cincinnati, in which the city fathers approve of pharmacists and surgeons at their city's Children's Hospital being paid to change the hormones and reproductive plumbing of an eight-year-old to move him from the man God made him to the woman his parents want him to be while at the same time disapproving of nurses, doctors, social workers, psychiatrists, counselors—any helping professional at all—being paid to reinforce the hormones and reproductive plumbing of an eight-year-old to help him live as the man God made him instead of the woman Satan wants him to be. Get it?
It's good health care which the civil magistrates approve of when fathers and mothers pay Cincinnati's Children's Hospital to mutilate their sons and daughters hormonally and surgically, moving them away from the sex God made them. Meanwhile, it's bad health care which the civil magistrates have criminalized when fathers and mothers pay anyone anywhere to move their sons and daughters toward the sex God made them.
News reports read:
Today, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced executive actions to protect New York's LGBT youth from the discredited and harmful practice known as conversion therapy.
Al Mohler, Heath Lambert, Denny Burke, Russ Moore, and the paid counselors who are members of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors agree.3
The news report continues:
Governor Cuomo's historic announcement is a victory for New York's LGBT youth. Today, every New Yorker who cares for the health and well-being of children can celebrate. No longer will unscrupulous peddlers of this dangerous pseudoscience victimize LGBT youth in New York State. LGBT youth will no longer be driven to suicide by abusive techniques intended to destroy their very identities.
This is the bandwagon. Everyone agrees "LGBT youth [must] no longer be driven to suicide by abusive techniques intended to destroy their very identities."
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