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We made it! Outstanding news! As of this afternoon we’ve reached – and surpassed – our $50,000 fundraising goal, which will be matched by a generous donor. To be exact, we raised $53,145.33. A big THANK YOU to everyone who donated at this critical time. Nearly 500 people donated from across the USA and Canada, and as far away as Singapore and the UK. There was a wonderful last-minute surge! Most of the donations were via credit card. But many, especially at the end, came by US mail. We hadn’t been to our PO Box in a few days due to weather issues and road construction. When we got there today it was overflowing with donations, which easily brought us over the top. A number of those donors took advantage of our $1,000 donation offer of a signed copy of Mitt Romney’s Deception: His Stealth Promotion of “Gay Rights” and “Gay Marriage” in Massachusetts. We have the best activists and supporters anywhere! Now .. back to winning the culture war! Thanks again, Brian Camenker, President For all recent posts see our website. Help us continue our work! MassResistance fights to protect parents and families across America and overseas from the radical agendas. We depend on people like you for financial support. Help us continue our critical work. Donate to MassResistance Better yet - become a monthly donor (email us to get set up) Donations can also be mailed to: MassResistance, PO Box 1612, Waltham, MA 02454 Or call us at: 781-890-6001. ALL donations are confidential. MassResistance does not sell or lend any of its lists. Contact us if you want to get involved! If this is being forwarded to you and you want to be on our primary list, sign up for email alerts here!

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Decriminalization of Homosexuality Has Led to the Criminalization of the Natural Order: Time to Fight Back

I cannot tell you how many complaints and criticisms I receive from people because of my work for MassResistance.

"Arthur, why are you so obsessed about LGBT?"

"Arthur, don't you realize that we are not going to win elections if people think that Republicans, that conservatives are 'anti-gay'"?

"Arthur, gay marriage has left the barn. It is too late to stop that horse. Get over it."

"Arthur, the best way going forward when dealing with LGBT is 'Live and Let Live'"

But is "live and let live" the wisest course of action? Is it too harsh for pro-family activists to call out homosexuality, transgenderism, bisexuality, etc. for what they are: destructive behaviors which undermine the natural order? Is it really the proper course of action for us to seek compromise and common ground with homosexuals, whether individuals or the activist lobby groups which represent them? Was it right for conservative leader Margaret Thatcher during her days in the minority Tory government to fight for the decriminalization of sodomy in her own country? Was it right for the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on this matter in 2015 and strike down all lives barring the redefinition of marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman? Is it a good idea for President Donald Trump to appeal to world leaders to decriminalize homosexuality?

Paul Johnson

Preeminent British historian and scholar Paul Johnson writes (as quoted by Peter LaBarbera) offers some controversial, yet compelling and ultimately correct assessments on this:

"The radical agenda [or the worldly, progressive movements] …with its strong appeal to the idealistic, as well as the materialistic, instincts of mankind, especially among young people, does constitute an alternative religion. Like any other form of humanism, it replaces God by man, and the welfare – or supposed welfare – of man, rather than the worship of God and obedience to his commandments, as the object of human existence and the purpose of society. That, of course, is its defect. The Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner once argued that it is the consciousness of God, the acceptance that there is power outside and above ourselves, to whom we owe allegiance and whose guidance we must follow, which essentially distinguishes mankind from other creatures.

....

"There were many of us, in the 1960s, who felt that there were grave practical and moral objections to the criminalisation of homosexuality, and who therefore supported, as happened in most Western countries, changes in the law which meant that certain forms of homosexual behavior ceased to be unlawful.

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"We were proved totally mistaken.

"Decriminalisation made it possible for homosexuals to organise openly into a powerful lobby, and it thus became a mere platform from which further demands were launched. Next followed demands for equality, in which homosexuality was officially placed on the same moral level as standard forms of sexuality, and dismissal of identified homosexuals from sensitive positions, for instance in schools, children’s homes, etc., became progressively more difficult. This was followed in turn by demands not merely for equality but privilege: the appointment, for instance, of homosexual quotas in local government, the excision from school textbooks and curricula, and university courses, passages or books or authors they found objectionable, special rights to proselytise, and not least the privilege of special programmes to put forward their views – including the elimination of the remaining legal constraints – on radio and television.

"Thus we began by attempting to right what was felt an ancient injustice and we ended up with a monster in our midst, powerful and clamouring, flexing its muscles, threatening, vengeful and vindictive towards anyone who challenges its outrageous claims, and bent on making fundamental – and to most of us horrifying – changes to civilised patterns of sexual behavior.

"Here indeed we have sexual politics in action. And, as with other alternatives to God, the result is not human happiness, but human misery. The homosexual community, as they now styled themselves, by their reckless promiscuity during the 1970s and 1980s, helped to spread among their members the fearful scourge of AIDS, a killer disease of a peculiarly horrible nature, for which there is no cure, and no immediate likelihood of a cure…." (The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage, by Paul Johnson, pages 28-29)

Long before Johnson detailed the deleterious consequences of decriminalizing LGBT behaviors, thus allowing them full and free reign in the public square, the Bible provides another historical account, one which warns all of us about the militancy of homosexuality and homosexuals when they are permitted to identify with and engage in their perversion openly:

"[T]he men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door." (Genesis 19: 4-9)

The homosexuals had so overrun the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that Lot, the only righteous man in the entire city, pleaded with the two angels who were visiting him, not to spend any time in the public square. He feared for their safety, because they would be preyed upon, sodomized, and very likely murdered. Notice also how Lot tries to placate the rabid homosexuals surrouding his home. He was willing to give up his own daughters to their own perverse sexual dictates. Not only did the sodomites reject Lot's offer, but they determined to "deal worse with" him. Lot tried to appease the homosexuals, and they responded by wanting to do him more harm!

I submit to you that because conservatives in general, and the pro-family movement in particular, has chosen the easier, softer approach of not confronting the whole LGBT agenda in its entirety, we are now facing the unprecedented immoral avalanche of Drag Queen Story Hour, Comprehensive Sexual Education, Homosexual Shame Parades, Satanic occult, and other detestable policy demands. The conservative, pro-family movement has sought to placate homosexuals repeatedly, from decriminalizing their perversion, to granting them civil unions, to allowing them gay marriage (in the United States and Taiwan, this immoral travesty was imposed by judicial fiat, not democratic exercise).

But the demands never ended. They want benefits, they want to adopt children. They want to be celebrated. As one homosexual activist had told me, quite pointedly and without reserve, in Hermosa Beach, CA: "You have to accept me. I will not accept 'tolerance!''"

Johnson his extended remarks in 1996. Fast forward to 2019, and let's consider what we are facing today from the LGBT lobby:

1. They demand that they can promote their deviant lifestyles in public libraries, at taxpayer expense, i.e. Drag Queen Story Hour

2. They demand the right to teach these perverse behaviors to children, with or without the parents' knowledge or consent, in government-run, taxpayer-funded schools.

3. Every time an individual in bondage to these perversions is held accountable for criminal or unethical conduct, they cry "victim" and expect to be exonerated. Consider the latest example of this with the exposure of now-resigning Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-Santa Clarita), whose numerous dalliances with men and women, all at taxpayer expense, were exposed to the public, and thus forced her resignation. In a final video statement informing the public of her resignation, she blames everyone but herself for the sad predicament she faces. No accountability whatsoever!

4. Not only are the LGBT ideologues lobbying other countries to repeal their anti-sodomy laws, but they want to sanction, fine, and imprison those who speak out against their destructive behaviors and deviant lifestyles. In their view, anyone, whether priest, parent, or professional, who condemns these unnatural acts should be driven from the public square, drained of all their resources, and deprived of their liberty.

5. The LGBT lobby has even gone to such lengths that they want their perverse behaviors recognized as civil rights, deserving of complete protection and government oversight at the expense of the rights of all. The Equality Act, HR 5, is full proof of this immoral tyranny, of this political madness all being forced on us under the guise of "tolerance, acceptance, and diversity."

The fight against the LGBT Agenda is real, and it's time to take it seriously. It is time for men and women of common sense and courage to stop treating this agenda with platitudes and niceties, and it's time to start calling out LGBT behaviors and the agenda as a whole. It's a tyrannical, unnatural perversion which should not be permitted in the public square. LGBT behaviors and ideas should not be celebrated, but denigrated, denounced, and dismissed from public welcome.

MassResistance, the pro-family organization that I serve as Organization Director, has been making the case for this hard-core, uncompromising approach since its inception in 1993. In order to fight against the LGBT Agenda, accommodation and compromise cannot be allowed. Homosexuality, transgenderism, and like sexual perversions are not identities, nor are they genetic behaviors. They are mental disorders, moral failings, "monsters in our midst" (to quote Paul Johnson) which must be rejected and treated with justice and sanction. It is not enough to say:

"You can have your sexual preferences, but let us have our individual liberty."

That approach has not worked, and it will never work. The LGBT agenda, the homosexual lobby is not interested in compromise and accommodation, or "live and let live." The whole agenda was never based on any concept of tolerance, but rather forced acceptance, i.e. tyranny. In fact, from the outset homosexual activists had announced that they wanted their behaviors to be regarded on par, in parity with normal and healthy sexual relations, i.e. singlehood or marriage of one man and one woman.

Based on history, based on biology, based on Biblical revelation and scientific truth, such demands cannot, should not be realized.

It's time to oppose with full conviction this whole LGBT agenda. It's time to stand for truth. To respond to my critics who declare that I should not be focused to intently on stopping the LGBT agenda, I retort: "On the contrary, it's time for us to start fighting, and fighting to win! We cannot afford to give one more inch. We cannot afford to lose any more ground."

In other words: It's time for MassResistance!

 It’s time for us to make a clear stance against homosexuality and for natural marriage, life, and family. It’s time to declare to a minuscule subset of the population that the vast majority of are not going to be content with being bullied into accepting, accommodation this perverse LGBT agenda.

We need to push homosexuality, transgenderism, and the like back into the proverbial closet. There is nothing wrong with sanction and recrimination, to the degree that these efforts serve to instructive the general public that such behaviors are wrong and should be discouraged. In no wise should the natural rights of anyone be abridged or abolished. But let us be clear: homosexuality, transgenderism, and other sexual paraphilias are not rights. They are behaviors, and our governments, our cultures, our moral expectations have every right to prohibit and sanction those behaviors.

We have no time to lose. It’s time for us to shake off our sense of shame-induced silence from the LGBT lobby and tell it like it is. LGBT is not OK, and we should have every right to see these behaviors, this agenda pushed out of the public square and sequestered from harming our children, our communities, our culture, and our country.

Decriminalization of homosexuality is leading to a criminalization of the natural order in our country and in nations around the world, and it's time for us to fight back.

LGBT Activists Harm Chula Vista: Patti Boman, Head of Local Hate Group PFLAG

Patti Boman is the head of PFLAG, or at least she used to be. Perhaps her extreme behavior proved too much even for other intolerant LGBT activists in the South Bay section of San Diego County.

Patti Boman
Head of Hate Group "PFLAG"

Mrs. Boman is the head of a hate group. PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, teaches young people to hate their bodies. This group fosters and foments lies and destruction to such an extent, that young people are killing themselves in record numbers.

Here, she gets confronted for spreading her hateful lies. Click here.

When I confronted her about allowing sex offenders around children, she refused to answer. She was OK with it!

Inducing and enabling people to kill themselves is just plain evil. If someone is in bondage to homosexuality or transgenderism, those individuals needs help. Parents who enable such lies are committed child abuse.

That is hate. Mrs. Boman heads a hate group, pure and simple:

She called Brian Camenker, the head of "MassResistance",
a white supremacist. He's an orthodox Jew.

But it gets worse.

She pushes a hateful narrative of lies which cause adults and children to harm their bodies and their minds, as well as cut their lifespans short. She promotes mental disorders and venereal disease.

She also makes frequent references to another hate group called “The Southern Poverty Law Center” to attack Chula Vista residents.

In order to cover for her hate, she cites this discredited hate group at length in an attempt to shame parents, mothers and fathers, immigrants and veterans, who want to protect children and safeguard our culture and our communities.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Catholic. The SPLC has a long history of shaming minority leaders like Maria Espinoza, whose organization “The Remembrance Project” gives a voice to grieving mothers and fathers.

Mrs. Boman, the head of a hate group, relies on another hate group, to smear immigrants, veterans, and parents as “a hate group.”

On August 29, 2019, along with other LGBT bigots, she attempted to shut down a black pastor and a Filipino son of immigrants, along with a diverse community of mothers and fathers who care about protecting their children from harmful, unhealthful behaviors like homosexuality and transgenderism.

Councilman Padilla stands with hatemongers like Mrs. Boman.

If anyone has any more information on this hatemonger and her hate group PFLAG, please contact me: arthur@massresistance.org

LGBT Activists Harm Chula Vista: Kelly Hutton

At the August 29, 2019 San Diego MassResistance Press Conference, another LGBT activist insisted on disrupting a peaceful assembly.

Her name is Kelly Hutton, and judging from her Facebook profile, it does not look like she has a job. Is that we she had the time to taunt and attempt to shut down a peaceful press conference?

She shouted "We love you! We love you!" while in fact making every effort to be as unloving as possible, making it difficult for other to be heard.

A mother and grandmother, Laura Douglas of the Chula Vista Tea Party, was trying to speak out in defense of children's innocence and the proper use of public facilities, like the main library.


While Laura was speaking, Kelly Hutton not only tried to interrupt her speech, but she damaged Tony Villafranca's PA System:

Why do these LGBT activists have no respect for other people's rights? They try to stifle freedom of speech, they attempt to disrupt freedom of assembly, and then they damage other people's property.

If anyone has information on the whereabouts of this LGBT hater, please contact me: arthur@massresistance.org

MassResistance Warned the World About Romney -- Help Us Do So Again

MassResistance warned the world about Mitt "Gay Marriage" Romney.

Here's the full expose, and a chance to help MassResistance complete their fundraising goals:

We were on the job when nobody else would do it ...

UPDATE: We're working hard to reach our $50,000 fundraising goal, which will then be matched by a generous donor – for a total of $100,000! As of today, we need to raise $7,710 by this Friday, Nov. 1, to get there. This will make a huge difference for our organization. If you were planning to support a pro-family group this year, this is the time to do it because you will "double your money"! What does your money do? Here’s just one example.

When “gay marriage” first came to the world (in Massachusetts), MassResistance was the only group that aggressively challenged the elected officials - including Gov. Mitt Romney. Now, Mitt Romney is in the news again. He recently admitted to using a Twitter account under the fake name Pierre Delecto to attack the President and others. But when Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, he was in the middle of a much bigger storm. In November 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court shocked the world by ruling that “gay marriage” must be implemented in the state. Publicly, Romney was against it. He partnered with the mainstream pro-family groups to support a Constitutional Amendment to nullify the ruling. (Actually, it would still have allowed “gay” civil unions or domestic partnerships, though not “marriage”.) MassResistance made the constitutional arguments for the Governor to halt “gay marriage” in Massachusetts. Our position was supported by prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly, Mike Huckabee, Pat Buchanan, Alan Keyes, and even Hugh Hewitt. But Romney ignored all of them and refused to use the Constitutional powers of the Governor to stop it (or even attempt to). MassResistance suspected that Romney was being dishonest to conservatives. And we were right. Over several months, we uncovered how the Romney administration was secretly supporting “gay marriage” in Massachusetts: We exposed how Romney’s staff set up “gay marriage” training sessions for public employees. He ordered Town Clerks across the state to perform and register “gay marriages” or else be fired. His administration was also working closely with major LGBT activists make sure they were satisfied with the progress. (During his campaign he promised them he’d be “gay friendly.”) And he never put his full support behind the Constitutional Amendment, which ultimately failed in the Legislature. In addition, MassResistance wrote legislation to impeach the judges who made this illegal ruling. It was filed in the Massachusetts Legislature by two prominent pro-family Democrat State Reps! It didn’t pass, but it sent a strong message, despite the fact that Romney refused to support it. No other group was willing to take this aggressive, bold, uncompromising action. And we continue to do it!

Finally, we documented it all. In 2011, our star researcher, Amy Contrada, published the groundbreaking book, Mitt Romney’s Deception: His Stealth Promotion of “Gay Rights” and “Gay Marriage” in Massachusetts. The book also exposes Romney’s support of LGBT youth programs that most conservatives were unaware of.

Special offer We really need to make this matching fundraising goal by Friday. All donations are really important. Please donate whatever you can! But here’s our special offer: Anyone donating $1,000 or more toward this critical goal will receive a copy of this important book autographed by the author! This will surely be a collector’s item. (You can also buy the book here.) Donations can also be mailed to: MassResistance, PO Box 1612, Waltham, MA 02454 NOTE: Donations to MassResistance are not tax-deductible. If you need to make a tax-deductible donation that will also go toward this goal, please call our office at 781-890-6001.

Thank you for all your your support. I will continue keeping you informed. THANKS AGAIN! Brian Camenker, President

One of several banners from 2004 - carried by citizens outside the State House and other places across the state. [MassResistance photo]

Romney's infamous "Governor's Commission" in 2005 at the annual "Youth Pride" parade in front of the State House. A MassResistance exposé in 2006 caused him to temporarily disband it. Activists then persuaded the Legislature to make it into a separate state body. [MassResistance photo]

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LGBT Activists Harm Chula Vista: Coyote Moon

At the August 29, 2019 San Diego MassResistance Press Conference, a handful of LGBT bigots showed up to attempt to disrupt our press conference.

Their hate was on full display, and they intended to do harm, to hurt others, to shut down our free assembly.

But we refused to be intimidated.

The next series of posts will be exposing these LGBT Hatemongers who want to harm children, promote special privileges for sexual deviance, and undermine parental rights.

The first one? Coyote Moon.

RACIST: Coyote Moon called a black pastor a “white supremacist.”

Coyote Moon: Racist LGBT Activist

It's hard to accept that there are still hateful people in our country who do not want black people, especially black pastors, to speak out and be heard.

Yet that is precisely what Coyote Moon attempted to do. Pastor Dennis Hodges of Lemon Grove spoke at the podium after me, but Coyote Moon shouted at him repeatedly "shame! shame!". At one point, she called him a "white supremacist."

Reminder: Pastor Dennis Hodges is black.

Why does LGBT activists have so much hate toward people who do not look like them?

HATEFUL: She shouted down numerous, diverse people in the Chula Vista Community who opposed Drag Queen Story Hour.

Intolerant:

For some reason, Coyote Moon has a problem with straight people. The truth is that there is no identity attached to sexual behavior. There is male, there is female, and everyone has a right and necessity to protect children and teach all that there are wise and unwise behaviors to engage in.

For decades, homosexual activists have slammed the general public for being intolerant, for not respecting freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Then they mock other people who want to exercise their freedom of speech.

From the outset, the LGBT Agenda was never about promoting tolerance, but rather dominance. It's time for the leaders and the community examples in our cities to say "Enough is enough."

Dishonest: She shouted “Jesus Made Me Gay!”

Coyote Moon is dishonest. She shouted at least twice during the August 29, 2019 San Diego MassResistance press conference "Jesus Made Me Gay!"

Her intolerance to faith in general, religion and particular cannot be ignored. While San Diego MassResistance chapter chair Tony Villafranca was 

She Shouted “I love My Gay Son!” – although there’s no proof or evidence that she has a son.

There is no evidence that Coyote Moon even has a son. If her son is struggling with same-sex attraction or other LGBT issues, he needs real love, not enabling, not abuse.

Coyote Moon has a son? If she really loves her son, she would have the courage to tell him the truth, to stop abusing his body.

Delusional: She said “I am a man.” All of this is proof that LGBT is founded on mental illness.

While shouting down the San Diego MassResistance press conference, Coyote Moon repeatedly shouted "I am a man." She is clearly a she. She is not a man at all, but wants to normalize transgenderism, which is a full-on mental disorder, just like homosexuality and other sexual perversions motivated by harm, mental illness, disease, and other behaviors.

Blasphemy: Coyote Moon Calls Jesus "A Man in a Dress", compares him to a Drag Queen

This is blasphemy, this is bigotry, and this should not be tolerated in Chula Vista.

Coyote Moon actually called Jesus "A man in a dress." She actually believes that Jesus is just like a drag queen. It's clear that she is an anti-spiritual hater. She has no respect for faith, family, or freedom.

Such hate has no place in Chula Vista. It's time for people to stand up and say "Enough!".

About Those Australian Gun Laws ... How ARE They Working Out, MATES?!

Australian Gun Law Update;

Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts..  ....From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia

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Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,

Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of Victoria.....alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent.(Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.  There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....'

You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information!

The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note Americans, before it's too late!

Open Letter to Freeport Memorial Library: Remove LGBT Indoctrination Cartoon Video

Mr. Bellafiore of the Freeport Memorial Library:

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization Director for MassResistance. We are the international pro-family group that makes the difference.

Pastor Monk contacted our main office regarding some content which had been made available in the children's section of your library:

"Freedom Fighters: The Ray"

This so-called children's program included adult content, specifically homosexual interactions among different main characters in the DVD program.

Such content should not be permitted around children, and indeed it should have never been permitted in the library.

Furthermore, the library's decision to move this DVD to the adult, or general DVD section is inadequate.

This kind of material simply has no place in a library. It's basically pushing "homosexual evangelism", as though such behaviors are normal and acceptable.

In fact, they are deviant and destructive. 

No content should be allowed in the library that has such deceptive marketing.

On behalf of Pastor Monk and New York MassResistance, we demand that this DVD "Freedom Fighters: The Ray" be removed from the library immediately.

I expect to hear from you on this matter soon.

Mr. Ken Bellafiore
hates children, promotes LGBT perversion

NB: Our New York State activists, especially residents in Suffolk and Nassau Counties will be contacting you shortly.

Team, the librarian's email address is: kbellafiore@freeportlibrary.info

The Freeport Memorial phone number is (516) 379-3274 

The next Board Meeting is Wed. Nov. 20 at  7:30 p.m

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper, Organization Director
Website: MassResistance.org
Email: arthur@massresistance.org
(781) 890-6001
@MassResistance
@CAMassResistanc

Missouri MassResistance Call To Action: Stop Kansas City Reparative Therapy Ban

From: Arthur Schaper, National Organization Director

Dear Missouri MassResistance:

We are sending this email to our readers and supporters in the Kansas City area. In the city of Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas is proposing a city-wide ordinance to ban reparative therapy for minors.

This is very disturbing .If you are not informed about this therapy already, this therapy saves lives. It helps people who are struggling with homosexuality and transgenderism so that they can break out of those behaviors.

Of course, the LGBT lobby wants to ban this therapy as much as possible, because their whole agenda is based on this lie that people are “born that way”, and therefore they do not need to change, and no should try to change them.

The bill is being introduced today (October 24) and it will proceed further next week. So time is very short.

Your help is needed to stop this! Please contact the city council and the mayor of Kansas City and tell them NOT to ban reparative therapy. (See contact information below.)

Here are key talking points to include in your email or your phone call to the city council and mayor:

1.       It’s “reparative therapy”, not “conversion therapy” – we are talking about a therapy which restores life and well-being to individuals, not a process for converting someone from one static identity to another identity.

2.       Reparative therapy saves lives. Homosexuality, transgenderism, and other similar behaviors are inherently destructive, dangerous, and dysfunctional.

3.       The opponents of reparative therapy claim that the therapy involves physical harm or torture. Those accusations are total lies. Reparative therapy is a talking therapy, a cognitive-emotional therapy which helps individuals deal with deeper, underlining hurts and pains.

4.       The so-called expert organizations which debunk reparative therapy were all bullied or aggressively lobbied by LGBT ideologues. There is no scientific evidence which debunks reparative therapy or makes it out to be ineffective.

5.       Reparative therapy is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly.

6.       Three federal cases have affirmed and defended reparative therapy practices, for minors as well as for adults:

a.       Vazzo v. Tampa (2019) – Struck down reparative therapy ban for minors in Tampa, Florida

b.       Schwartz v. The City of New York et al. (2019) – Lawsuit compelled the city council of New York City to repeal their comprehensive reparative therapy ban, both for adults and for minors, because the city realized that they could not win the case.

c.       NIFLA v. Becerra (2018) – Supreme Court case which struck down any limitations on professional speech as unconstitutional. The Majority Opinion, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, signaled very clearly that reparative therapy bans of any sort are unconstitutional and will not survive judicial scrutiny once challenged before the United States Supreme Court.

If the Kansas City city council passes any kind of reparative therapy ban, they are basically signaling that they want people to be harmed, to live in pain, or to die.

The city will also be inviting a number of costly lawsuits which the city will lose. In fact, the city could open itself up to further liability by attempting to ban a healthy, life-saving therapy.

If you have any questions – and especially if you can go and testify – please contact me:

Arthur Schaper, Organization Director

Email: arthur@massresistance.org

Phone: (781) 890-6001

The contact information for the Kansas City City Council is listed below:

KANSAS CITY MO CITY OFFICIALS

1. KANSAS CITY MAYOR  QUINTON LUCAS	MayorQ@kcmo.org	816-513-3600
2. COUNCILWOMAN (1st Dist) HEATHER HALL	heather.hall@kcmo.org	816-513-6505
3. COUNCILMAN (1st Dist) KEVIN O’NEILL	kevin.oneill@kcmo.org	816-513-6503
4. COUNCILMAN (2nd Dist)	amy.justis@kcmo.org	816-513-6509
DAN FOWLER	(legislative aide)
5. COUNCILWOMAN (2nd Dist) TERESA LOAR	teresa.loar@kcmo.org	816-513-6507
6. COUNCILWOMAN (3rd Dist) MELISSA ROBINSON	melissa.robinson@kcmo.org	816-513-6513
7. COUNCILMAN (3rd Dist) BRANDON ELLINGTON	brandon.ellington@kcmo.org	816-513-6511
8. COUNCILWOMAN (4th Dist) KATHERYN SHIELDS	katheryn.shields@kcmo.org	816-513-6515
9. COUNCILMAN (4th Dist) ERIC BUNCH	eric.bunch@kcmo.org	816-513-6517
10. COUNCILMAN (5th Dist)	keema.mccoy@kcmo.org	816-513-6519
LEE BARNES JR.	(legislative aide)
11. COUNCILWOMAN (5th Dist)	angela.pearson@kcmo.org	816-513-6521
RYANA PARKS-SHAW	(legislative aide)
12. COUNCILMAN (6th Dist)	fred.wickham@kcmo.org	816-513-6525
KEVIN MCMANUS (Mayor Pro Tem)	(legislative aide)
13. COUNCILWOMAN (6th Dist) ANDREA BOUGH	andrea.bough@kcmo.org 816-513-6523