Ben Popper of The Memphis Flyer reports on Love In Action’s day in court last week.
The unlicensed exgay live-in therapy agency is suing to stop Tennessee from enforcing laws protecting the mentally ill from abuse, malpractice and neglect, when those patients happen to be in a facility that claims its therapy — including the unauthorized dispensing of prescription drugs and involuntary confinement — is a form of religion.
The federal judge in the case seems initially sympathetic to the clinic’s notion that religion excuses oneself from accountability under public-health laws — and the state of Tennessee appears unwilling to stake out a clear and vocal position.
(Hat tip: Queer Action Coalition of Memphis)
If Love in Action wins in court, what will the results be? Will this embolden other ex-gay groups?
The operative word here is what constitutes ‘illness’ or ‘addiction’.
Clinical disorders and addictions are distinct from FUNCTION.
And LIA cannot prove in court that homosexuality keeps a person FROM functioning on any level.
Their belief about homosexuality does’nt square with the proven evidence regarding that function within society.
What is in the Bible is literally an opinion, not a fact.
And subsequent opinions since the Bible, until very recently, were exclusively offered by heterosexuals with limited studies and experiment and range of access and bias.
I have mentioned before a person claiming a cure for anything, must first prove there is something there that requires a cure.
And homosexuality doesn’ require a cure. There is no urgency because homosexuality isn’t infectious, life threatening or…a factor in disfunction.
And a doctor that insists there is a problem when there isn’t one, and has no proof of being able to cure what doesn’t ail someone, is called a quack.
Quack science shouldn’t be allowed to insinuate itself into and among people who are ignorant and fearful.
Those who exploit fear and ignorance are also a red flag indication of a sinister agenda as well.
The federal judge in the case seems initially sympathetic to the clinic’s notion that religion excuses oneself from accountability under public-health laws
I have a bad feeling that this judge is going to carve out a religious exemption from laws regulating health care. And if that happens, the consequences will reach far beyond the issue of gay teens being forced into ex-gay therapy. It’ll mean that essentially any quack who wants to market their wares and dispense powerful drugs to kids and adults alike can do so as long as they claim they’re a faith based service. State public health agencies may as well close down shop because they’ll have a hard time prosecuting anyone for medical malfeasance. They just nail a cross to their door and they’re back in business.
“If Love in Action wins in court, what will the results be? Will this embolden other ex-gay groups?”
If LIA/R loses it will further evidence that Christians are being persecuted by activist judges.
If LIA/R wins it shows that they were right all along and that they were just being attacked by the homosexual activists pressuring the liberal establishment.
I would hate to be this judge.
26 men sentenced for Abu Dhabi gay wedding
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A court in Abu Dhabi recently sentenced 26 men to five years’ imprisonment for organizing a gay wedding at a hotel. The group said in court they were proud of their actions, DNA reported. After the arrests, a UAE official said the men might face forced hormone treatments and lashings in addition to jail, according to Associated Press. An Interior Ministry official said the hormone treatments for the gay men would be optional. The U.S. State Department condemned the arrests and issued a statement urging the UAE to stop all forced hormone and psychological treatments against the arrested men. Noel Clay, a State Department spokesman, told the Blade the arrests were “part of a string of recent group arrests in the UAE.” According to the State Department’s annual human rights report, civil and Islamic law criminalize homosexual activity in the UAE.
(copied from Southern Voice-Police Beat)
How is that the US State Department can urge the UAE to “to stop all forced hormone and psychological treatments against the arrested men”, yet at home our federal courts can’t see fit to stop the forced psychological treatment of homosexual youth?
Just something to chew on….
Just wondering… if homosexuality is not a mental disorder and therefore not health-related, why should a Christian ministry helping willing and informed adults be treated as health-care? If they are to be held to the same standards as mental health facilities, what would that say about homosexuality?
Josh
Because they were holding and disbursing phychotropic medecines. As part of their agreement with the state they had to no longer do this practice and not provide care to individuals who are under doctor supervision for mental disorders.
They are allowed to remain open as a Christian self-help ministry.
Does that help you understand?