Confronting the aggressive “Pride Month” push in government-funded mental health facilities
California mental health patients forced to celebrate LGBT pride – or get kicked out if they complain
MassResistance confronts management – met with arrogance
July 1, 2025
The Wellness Center's manager (right) and program director came outside to stop MassResistance's Arthur Schaper from entering the building during their big "Pride" event.“Pride Month” continues to be an excuse to push the LGBT agenda on people who would rather be left alone.
Medical facilities, even government-supported mental health facilities, have become aggressive in celebrating LGBT “Pride Month.” It’s (purposefully) unavoidable and is particularly stressful for religious Christians. This must be confronted, not ignored.
The Clarvida Wellness Center Central is located in Orange, CA. It provides mental health services for county residents in need. It is funded by Orange County, along with state and federal funding. The Clarvida company is a nationwide local government contractor that provides therapy, training, counseling, and other services to people dealing with trauma, behavioral challenges, and a variety of other mental health issues.
The plaque on the outside of the Wellness Center building clearly indicates that it's a government-run facility.During the second week of June, two patients at Clarvida Wellness Center Central reached out to MassResistance for help. They complained about the overt LGBT “Pride Month” propaganda in the facility, and they wanted to stop it. As Christians, they felt bullied and discriminated against.
They said that “Pride” is being pushed throughout the building. “It is making our life hell by turning innocuous activities like jewelry-making class into ‘make pride-themed jewelry.’ And it's not optional,” they said. “The Wellness Center has also turned a weekly Art Class into making ‘pride’ centric projects.”
The Wellness Center posted this "Pride Month" photo online of its staff.
From the Wellness Center calender “Several of us are very upset by this because we are Christians. It’s such a hostile environment that even some atheists and agnostics have complained, asking why everything has to be hyper focused on pride activities and sexuality, ” they added. “The Wellness Center does not support or celebrate drunkenness, drug abuse or any other unhealthy destructive lifestyle – except sodomy and transgenderism.” Moreover, they said, the Center celebrates a month of “Pride” but does not observe Easter or Christmas.
They said they are not allowed to wear "Reclaim the Rainbow" T-shirts because that is considered “hateful.” MAGA clothing is also prohibited. “But if we dare refer to someone by a wrong pronoun, we can get evicted.”
“The program and treatment are voluntary, so they told us that if we feel uncomfortable we are free to leave. That’s their attitude. We are afraid to complain too much because the staff is so militant about promoting this abomination – and normally the rest of the year it is not this bad.”
Additionally, they told us, “Many of the patients at this Wellness Center have severe conditions to where they can't obtain a driver's license or open a bank account because they are at a level like mild or moderate mental retardation. What the Wellness Center is doing is basically grooming the disabled.”
Ironically, Orange County is one of the more conservative areas of California. In June 2023, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to ban the Pride flag from flying on county properties. Only the U.S., California, Orange County, and POW/MIA flags are allowed.
Staffer defends the one-sided promotion
One of the patients approached a staffer (and videoed part of the conversation with his permission) and asked him why there are LGBT flyers, but Christian material is not allowed.
The staffer compared Christianity to a political issue, and said that if the Center allows that material, it's as if they’re promoting it. His antagonism against Christianity was not hidden: When the patient said that the Bible considers homosexuality an abomination, the staffer said that the Bible created a culture hostile to women and endorsed slavery.
The staffer said that the Center is not promoting the gay agenda. “It's an LGBTA+ support group. That group is allowed to exist, and their flyers are allowed to exist,” he said. “You don’t have to come here.” That is the kind of “reasoning” that the patients have to put up with.
The staffer chastising the Christian patient.The radical LGBT movement is promoted company-wide
What’s happening to patients at the Orange County facility is clearly being done across the country. Clarvida’s national website has a page devoted to “Pride Month” that reveals how radical this company is.
Its suggested “daily activities” for a week of “Pride” include two days of “Stonewall” articles and videos, donating to the poisonous “Trevor Project” (which counsels teenagers to be transgender or “gay”), updating one’s email signatures to include “pronouns,” and participating in LGBT activism by working with the toxic “Human Rights Campaign.”
The Clarvida national website reveals how determined it is to push this agenda.
Big “Pride” event at the Center
A big “Pride” event at the Wellness Center was set for June 20. It was widely promoted.
The Wellness Center's promotion of its big June 20 "Pride Month" eventA demand letter from a law firm!
As the date approached, it was very upsetting to the Christian patients. They decided that they should be allowed to give their point of view at this event – and not be in danger of eviction from the facility.
One of the Christian patients contacted a law firm in Los Angeles. The lawyers agreed that because the Center receives federal funding, it has an obligation to allow both sides to be presented.
The firm drafted a strongly worded letter to the Wellness Center demanding that the Christian patient be allowed to present her viewpoint at the Pride event:
[The patient] demands that you immediately and fully allow her to present counter-points or her opposition to the event being celebrated. She further demands that Clarvida Wellness Center allow her to read from the Judeo-Christian Bible at your event that is taking place and distribute literature from a Christian perspective and articulate her deeply held beliefs about gender and sexuality.
The letter was mailed (via USPS) and also emailed to the director of the Wellness Center. But neither the patient nor the law firm ever received acknowledgement that it was received, or that she would be allowed to speak at the event. It was very disturbing.
Patient prepares to speak at Center’s Pride event
The patient decided to show up at the event anyway with a prepared speech. She asked Arthur Schaper, the MassResistance National Field Director (who lives nearby) to accompany her as a guest, for support.
MassResistance confronts the Center’s bosses
On the morning of June 20th, as Arthur approached the Wellness Center entrance, the Center’s program director and manager both came outside and stopped him from entering.
The program director bluntly said, “You are not welcome here.” Arthur said he was a guest of one of the patients. The reply was, “We’ll talk to her about this when she gets here.”
As the program director and manager were barking at Arthur, the door to the Wellness Center opened. It showed that the first thing people entering see is a big electric rainbow sign.Arthur asked him why they were violating the county rule about flying pride flags. He said that it only applied outside a building, not inside.
The manager said they are a private company and don’t have to answer to Arthur. He accused Arthur of having an agenda “to be disruptive at our event,” which Arthur strongly denied.
Arthur asked the manager if he’s seen the letter from the attorneys demanding that the patient be allowed to present an opposing opinion. He said, “I have no comment on that.” The manager said that the patient may come to the event but must be “respectful” and “not disruptive” or “in any way offensive” to the event or staff, or she will be forced to leave.
Arthur asked the manager why they were promoting destructive behaviors like homosexuality and transgenderism in a wellness center. Not surprisingly, he refused to answer that.
Then they walked back into the Center. Arthur waited outside, but the patient never showed up. She later told Arthur that she had decided there was no point to attending, because the Center’s refusal to answer or acknowledge the law firm’s letter indicated they would not allow her to give a different point of view at the pride event.
Final thoughts
This abuse (on many levels) of mental health patients, funded by tax dollars, must be stopped. The government entities that are allowing this need hard pressure from good people!
We’ve heard that it’s likely that the patient’s law firm will pursue this as a violation of federal law and a blatant case of discrimination, and may be taking this (to start with) before the Orange County Board of Supervisors, the principal funder. We’ll see what happens.
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