By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Apr 6 | In a Sunday, April 4th Editorial in the Los Angeles Times, California Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, (D-54th Dist.) wrote: "Buried in California law is a provision requiring the state to seek a 'cure' for homosexuality. Believe it or not, California law requires health experts to find a cure for homosexuality. No joke: Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8050. In 1950, homosexuality remained, officially, a mental disorder. So when the Legislature promised funding for a study into the causes and cures of sexual deviance, it was, tragically, natural to add homosexuality to the list"
Assemblywoman Lowenthal introduced Assembly Bill 2199, at the request of Equality California. The Bill faces its first hearing Tuesday before the Public Safety Committee, Lowenthal said:
"Passage of the law's repeal would undo 60 years of libel and give California a set of law books that reflects science and values that were sadly absent in 1950."
Opposition however was swift in denouncing the proposed action. Discredited "ex-gay therapist" Richard Cohen, who in 2002 was ejected from the American Counseling Association, debated and advocated for the law to remain on the books on CNN earlier today:
Posts
2 comments:
Per my experience, I can't think of anything that would have changed me. How could classroom instruction or whatever ever hope to compete with adolescent love; the most torturous, all consuming, highly physical love that most peple ever experience. Max
Richard Cohen - sure sounds like he was once Jewish to me. But now he's an Evangelical Christian.
"Used to be" gay, and now he's straight.
Richard, how many times can you change your real identity?
(Actually, though, as someone who IS Jewish, I'm sure glad you're not any more.)
Post a Comment