The California state assembly is weighing a bill that would ban engaging in any “…transaction intended to result or that results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer” that advertise, offer to engage in, or do engage in “sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.”
Which would ban “conversion therapy”, certainly.
it’s also band the Bible and any other work of Christian orthodoxy – both selling and buying.
This is extraordinarily radical. Christian orthodoxy is simple — regardless of a person’s desires (their “orientation”), the standard of right conduct is crystal clear. Sex is reserved for marriage between a man and a woman. When it comes to “gender expression,” there is no difference between “sex” and “gender,” and the Christian response to gender dysphoria is compassion and treatment, not indulgence and surgical mutilation.
And whatever you believe, on either side, this is a complete trashing of the First Amendment.
Y’know – the one that supposedly even liberals found sacrosanct…
California’s new law that goes after pro-life groups…..if a pro-life group puts up a billboard that says “Choose Life” on it, they must also put on the billboard a message saying, in 13 languages and fairly large font size, that you can get free abortions.
You are just missing it. You see, the first Amendment is important when it protects pornographers, but not so much when it protects religion and political speech inconvenient to the left. Of course, given the left’s strong support of #MeToo, exactly why they support pornographers, who daily enact scenes that can only charitably be described as rape, is beyond me, but that’s how they roll.