Open Letter to State Senator Bill Dodd: Vote NO on AB 2943

Dear State Senator Bill Dodd:

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization Director for MassResistance. I current serve as the interim director for our California chapter.

MassResistance is a pro-family organization that makes a difference. We stand up to the destructive LGBT Agenda, which promotes ideals and lifestyles which are deviant, dangerous, and destructive. We have chapters all over the country and the world, including Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong, and our movement is expanding into Chile and South Africa, too.

For the last 30 years, the LGBT Agenda has promoted lifestyles which lead to disease, dysfunction, and death. The suicide rate among transgendered individuals is 40%, and this statistic factors out external or political factors. Homosexual conduct has led to a rapid breakout of venereal disease in many communities and cities, and the lifestyle itself cuts the average lifespan by 20%.

This agenda is now infringing on the rights of parents, of individual patients, as well as pastors and professionals to seek whatever information, assistance, or therapy which patients deem fit to live long and fulfilling lives.

AB 2943 is an LGBT-backed bill sponsored by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Cupertino), and this legislation, if it passes, would outlaw reparative therapy for adults. Men and women who struggle with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria have every right to seek whatever therapies they see fit. Contrary to the many lies spoken about reparative therapy, the practice does not involve abusive or demeaning practices at all. In fact, this therapy has saved countless lives, men and women who have suffered immense abuse as children, which leads to struggles with homosexuality and transgenderism.

AB 2943 is an egregious assault on the First Amendment, which protects the rights of individuals to write, speech, publish, and share information to assist adults and seek whatever therapies they choose. AB 2943 would essential ban books, sermons, video recordings, and the like which teach people that they can leave homosexuality and transgenderism. The legislation is patently unconstitutional and will not survive a court challenge.

It is essential, Senator Dodd, that you oppose AB 2943 and urge your colleagues to do the same. We urge you to demand the withdrawal of this bill entirely. Your constituents deserve to hear from you on this matter, as well, and you should not prevent them from meeting with your staffers to speak against this bill and demand its withdrawal from consideration.

To all Solano County residents and individuals who live in State Senate District 3, contact State Senator Dodd, and urge him to vote NO! on AB 2943 and to demand its withdrawal:

Senator Bill Dodd, Capitol Office

State Capitol, Room 5064,

Sacramento, CA 95814-4900;

(916) 651-4003

Senator.dodd@senate.ca.gov

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper, Organization Director

State Director, California MassResistance

Website: MassResistance.org

Email: arthur@massresistance.org

(781) 890-6001

@MassResistance

@CAMassResistanc