This is a follow-up to Love In Action’s Day in Court.
Love In Action Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee. Excerpt:
On Friday, Love in Action announced a settlement in which the state agreed that the facilities did not need to be licensed and agreed to pay the organization’s attorneys’ fees and expenses in the lawsuit.
In return, Love in Action agreed that its employees would not administer or regulate the medications of program participants.
“TDMHDD is pleased that the case has been settled to the satisfaction of all parties involved,” department spokes woman Jill M. Hudson said in a statement.
Love In Action’s stated mission is “the prevention or remediation of unhealthy and destructive behaviors facing families, adults and adolescents,” including promiscuity, pornography and homosexuality
So, the Love In Action program will continue with minor changes…
And, The State of Tennessee will pick up the legal tab for all sides in the case. I can’t imagine this conclusion is one that many LGBT activists will be satisfied with.
I can’t imagine this conclusion is one that many LGBT activists will be satisfied with.
How about regular old GLBT persons? BTW, what is “TDMHDD?”
TDMHDD = Tennessee’s Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Well, they’re too busy having anal sex to notice. But if they did, they’d realize that they didn’t really want to be gay and herald this as a triumph.
Or not.
“Love In Action was represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based legal alliance that represents Christian interests.”
That’s awfully generous of the newspaper to say, since I am a Christian, and the ADF (which James Dobson helped found–isn’t that conVENient) has yet to represent a client with “interests” which I agree with, or which align with the radically inclusive message in the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels.
FYI, any Michigan readers, the ADF receives major funding from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, in case anyone here is even remotely entertaining the thought of voting that side of the ticket for governor.
PS: And I’m sure the State of Tennessee was represented by an overworked and underpaid assistant in the Tennessee AG’s office.
I think this was an issue that should have been worked out by mental-health professionals, not activists, and not bureaucrats that serve at the convenience of politicians.
Quite simply, does so-called religion give unlicensed facilities a blank check to commit any abuse in the name of behavior modification?
…religion give unlicensed facilities a blank check to commit any abuse in the name of behavior modification?
In Tennessee, apparently so! (“Administering or regulating medication” excepted.) Forced application of unproven, experimental psychotherapy to confined minors gets a green light when done in the name of Jesus.
Oh what a world, what a world.
Is this the same “Love” in Action that belives these kids will burn in hell for all eternity if they leave the program?
So they can still provide unliscensed religious counseling backed by a thin vener of psycho therapy? Thats bullshit. The only way I would be happy is if they were only allowed to advertise their services as what they are… religious counseling with no connection of psychology, psychiatry, or science.
And pay your own damn fees.