MassResistance: Sec. of State Pompeo Caves to LGBT Agenda Overseas

Secretary of State Pompeo Disappoints Pro-Family Conservatives

Is it too late to hope the State Department swamp will be drained of sexual radicalism?

By Amy Contrada
October 1, 2018

US Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

Last month’s Values Voter Summit audience applauded Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech promoting religious freedom around the globe.  He declared at that Family Research  Council event in Washington, DC:

The heart of our mission is the preservation of human dignity…  We are assuring human dignity by advancing one of our most cherished and indispensable liberties.  It’s enshrined in the First Amendment.  It is our religious freedom.

We’re glad there’s a new focus in this administration on religious persecution in other countries.  But what about when conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews (whether abroad or in the US) are labeled as bigots and irrational fear-mongers? Isn’t that religious persecution?

That name-calling is just what Secretary Pompeo did this past spring.  In May, he issued an official statement, “On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.”  (Phobia means an irrational fear.)  He gave credence to the radical ideology deeming all forms of sexual and “gender” expression “human rights” and that any disagreement is irrational or hateful.

Then, he proclaimed June to be “LGBTI Pride Month”:  “The United States joins people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Pride Month…” (Note the acronym’s addition of “I” for intersex – a true biological condition, unlike the other self-proclaimed “identities.”)

A press release like this would have been considered insane throughout most of our nation's history..

Is Secretary Pompeo unaware of the attacks on religious freedom coming from sexual radicals here in the U.S.?  So-called “LGBT rights” roll over anything in their path: bringing lawsuits against conservative believers over refusals to bake “gay” or “trans” wedding cakes; demanding transgender persons’ acceptance in public accommodations; catechizing school children on the LGBT creed against parental beliefs; censoring the serious health risks accompanying LGBT lifestyle choices, etc.

The celebration of all things LGBT has become totalitarian.  Sexual radicals now have the power to shut down websites, silence university researchers, and yank payment platforms from conservative groups.  They silence debate with charges of “hate speech.”  They push people to self-censor.

The US Embassy in Cuba - Bringing a totalitarian ideology to a totalitarian country.

Moreover, we ask Secretary Pompeo:  How is it affirming “human dignity” to define persons by their sexual proclivities, or their denial of their own biological reality?  Is it dignified to publicly celebrate one’s engagement in sodomy?  Is it dignified to impersonate the opposite sex and demand access to opposite-sex facilities?  Is it dignified to seek one’s own chemical and surgical castration? Is it irrational “homophobia” or “transphobia” to be concerned about these issues?

Yet Pompeo apparently believes the State Department is promoting “human dignity” when it officially supports vulgar LGBT pride eventsand flies the rainbow flag at our embassies.

Pompeo’s recent proclamations were no doubt authored by the still powerful LGBT lobby in the State Department.  They are pure sexual-radical propaganda.

His May statement exaggerates the plight of so-called “sexual minority” persons around the world.  “Fear and bigotry are enshrined in laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct in more than 70 countries. In some, being LGBTI is punishable by death,” Pompeo said.

But in fact, as even a major international LGBT group admits, harsh penalties targeting LGBTs  (including the death penalty) that are “codified under Sharia” are often “not known to be implemented.”  In some areas, a penalty such as stoning “applies broadly for adultery, rape … incest … and homosexual sodomy” (and not just homosexual acts).

Only recently have “LGBT rights” – i.e., all forms of sexual and “gender” expression – been declared “human rights” by radical activists. So, it’s a stretch to claim that the 72 countries criminalizing “same-sex acts” are violating “human rights.” 

Why is it acceptable for Pompeo’s State Department to attempt to force acceptance of this new “LGBT rights” ideology on the majority of countries around the world that dissent? Why does LGBT cultural imperialism get a pass?

Do the pro-LGBT views of the State Department represent most Americans?  No. Pompeo’s incendiary vocabulary (homophobia, transphobia, biphobia) smears a majority of American citizens as irrational, deplorable bigots. The evidence:

When our citizens were still allowed a voice on same-sex “marriage” (before the Supreme Court’s 2015 overreach in Obergefell), voters had banned it in a majority of states.  Congress has never passed an LGBT anti-discrimination law (though the Obama administration pushed the EEOC to interpret broadly the existing law against “sex discrimination” in employment, to include sexual orientation and gender identity).  And only 20 states (plus D.C.) currently have laws banning discrimination on the basis of both “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” 

So, where’s the public mandate for our State Department to push radical sexuality on the world?

Sadly, Pompeo inherited a Department of State that has been promoting “LGBT rights” around the globe for quite some time, with a huge pushoccurring under the Obama administration.  LGBT staffers apparently have tremendous power, with employee lobbies and support within the bureaucracy.  Rainbow flags are still flown at our embassies.  Pride events in DC are officially recognized by the State Department.  UN Ambassador Nikki Haley recognized 2018 “LGBTI” Pride month.

US Embassy personnell marching in the street in Riga, Latvia, this past June.

The Deputy Secretary of State, John J. Sullivan, expanded on Pompeo’s June statement dignifying “LGBTI Pride Month.”  He noted the Secretary’s “pledge to create a more diverse and inclusive Department of State.”  He called for mandatory pro-LGBT re-education of all department employees:

In 2009, this Department extended workplace protections against discrimination to all of its employees, and more recently, has advocated strongly for employees’ families to better facilitate their service abroad.  As a Department, we continue to seek greater diplomatic recognition for the families of LGBTI employees.  We know that in many countries, this is a challenge, but if an employee is ready and willing to serve in a country where they may face hardships, our support of their service and sacrifice should be matched by the way we advocate for them and their families.

FSI [Foreign Service Institute] has also created the online training course “LGBTI at State” … to increase awareness among the entire workforce about issues and sensitivities related to the LGBTI community.  I encourage everyone in the Department to take this training, in fact, I insist upon it…

It can be argued that all this goes against our nation’s values.  So why didn’t Family Research Council challenge Secretary Pompeo on this issue, rather than focusing on global religious freedom at their recent event?  Have they abandoned their 2017 demand for Trump “to launch a major purge of pro-LGBT diplomats inside Foggy Bottom”?

Our policies in foreign lands should reflect our nation’s values, as far as they can be discerned by laws enacted by the people’s representatives – not the rantings of radical special interest groups.

We thought we were done with this radicalism when Obama left office. Obviously not.
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Amy Contrada is with MassResistance and author of Mitt Romney's Deception (2011).  She has degrees from Tufts and Brown, plus a diploma in violin making.  See AmyContrada.com for some of her writing.
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From Borked to "Kavanaugh-ed": The SCOTUS Nomination Circus

Three decades ago, President Ronald Reagan nominated a pre-eminent legal mind and unabashed constitutionalist Robert C. Bork. A Yale Law School professor with impeccable credentials, including a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Bork faced an unprecedented buzzsaw of contention and condemnation not just from Democrats, but the press and Hollywood.

US Senator Ted Kennedy read a smear-filled speech against Bork’s confirmation, infamously referred to as “Robert Bork’s America.” Ironically, Kennedy’s tirade against Bork referenced policy decisions implemented by Democratic politicians, including forced segregation, the retraction of civil rights, and police abuses against citizens. Reagan’s Republican Party didn’t handle the media and political onslaught, and Bork’s confirmation failed and not just along party lines. The stark failure of a pre-eminent jurist to receive a seat on the Supreme Court demonstrated that Republican measures to appoint conservative, constitutional originalists to the United States Supreme Court would face not just a double-standard on extreme vetting, but an unprecedented assault on their character and their personal lives.

Thirty years later, with President Donald Trump in office, it looks as if Republicans have learned their lesson. Donald Trump overcame the steep media harassment which sought to derail his election in 2016. In fact, the more the media attacked the President, the better his chances grew, it seemed. Part of his winning campaign included the list of conservative jurists whom he would consider for nomination to the United States Supreme Court. Trump knew how to take on the media then, and he put the screws to the media with this list. He shored up support with worried evangelicals, plus he established trustworthy credentials with other conservatives worried about his commitment to Republican principles.

His first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, passed through unsightly lines of questioning from Democratic US Senators. Their unjust determination to stonewall a well-qualified jurist fell apart when the Republican majority nuked the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, simply following the pattern set by former Senate Majority leader Harry Reid in 2013 with appellate nominees. Gorsuch was one constitutionalist replacing another constitutional originalist.

For all intents and purposes, Democrats overplayed their hand. They should not have blocked this nomination, but allowed it to go through and save their political capital for other nominees. This partisan folly has hurt their cause in more ways than they will ever know.

 Now we have Brett Kavanaugh, a United States DC Court of Appeals jurist with a long, stories, respected, pedigree. His well-written political opinions sparked little interest from the Democratic minority. They focused on his private life, then they went after his political associations. From the outset, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he and his caucus would do everything in their power to stop Kavanaugh.

The nomination process is now excessively politicized. The Democrats have destroyed any credibility on this matter. This Democratic attempt to derail President Trump's duly established role as chief executive, and the US Senate's role of "Advise and Consent" has turned into a search-and-destroy circus. Will there be any hope of ending this perverse disregard for the rule of law?

Perhaps. Justice Kavanaugh has displayed an impress judicial temperament. He has demonstrated through solid political research and writing his skill at analyzing law and responding to federal court cases. He has shown proven integrity as a private citizen and public figure. His family contains a long legal pedigree. No matter what the Democrats tried to do, they could not dispute his qualifications.

Now they have resorted to pursuing spurious allegations of sexual misconduct in order to derail this nominee. It is nothing short of disgusting. Christine Ford brings forth these purported sexual assault charges from decades ago, when she and Brett were in high school.  The charges have gone from harrowing to laughable. One accuser stated that Kavanaugh was involved in gang rape. The attorney in charge of another matter, Michael Avenatti, represented washed-up porn slut Stormy Daniels. Those attacks against Trump went nowhere. Avenatti wants in on the corrupt anti-Kavanaugh action, too? Unbelievable.

With the Kavanaugh nomination, a different kind of political maelstrom is emerging. In the past, Supreme Court nominees were "borked", that is slandered heinously by the ideological opposites in hopes of scuttling a terrible nomination. In those days, with Reagan at the helm of divided government. Robert Bork was slammed inexorably because of his consistent constitutionalism, and thus his inevitably conservative views. The Roe v. Wade precedent faced possible overturning with Bork.

That fate awaits that poorly decided decision once again should Kavanaugh become the next Supreme Court justice. His 307 written opinions outline a clearly pro-America, sovereign guidance on a number of issues, including life. Precedents have been respected and rejected in differing number

Borking Kavanaugh didn’t work, in that the Democratic US Senator minority could not attack his political or judicial philosophy with any seriousness this time. The Republican Party conference, or at least the phalanx of conservatives fighting for this latest nomination, now understand the stakes and the depraved lengths to which the Democratic Party will go to shut down future nominees.

This nominee has been “Kavanaugh-ed”, in that the ideological opposition on the US Senate has resorted to every personal, private slander and allegation of impropriety to stop his nomination or scuttle his confirmation. This process was played out to a less extent during Judge Douglas Ginsburg’s nomination hearings. Reagan nominated Ginsburg after Bork, but he withdrew because he “inhaled”. Let’s not forget the “high-tech lynching” that Clarence Thomas endured.

These irreverent, heinous, salacious attacks have hit such a height, however, that they deserve their own moniker. Because of their outlandish nature, however, they will backfire spectacularly. This perverse lawlessness has turned off moderate Democratic voters while engaging Republicans to get out there and vote. Dianne Feinstein may have saved her seat, but she cost her party any chance of winning the House or the US Senate.  Perhaps in the near future, Supreme Court nominees should look forward to being “Kavanaugh-ed”. It almost certainly guarantees the confirmation going forward.

Kavanaugh Coming Through

Lyin' Ted Helps Heavin' Harley Against Dana Rohrabacher

Lyin' Ted Lieu is not serving his own district.

What's he doing in Orange County going after Dana Rohrabacher?

This is nothing short of disgusting.

Please, people, vote for Dana!

I'm Congressman Ted Lieu, and I approve this message: Harley Rouda will make one great congressman. I've been tweeting and cheering Harley on as his campaign has gained momentum and captured national attention. His takedowns of California's most vulnerable Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, are epic. But that's not what makes Harley stand out as a leader for the future. Harley has vision. Principles. Smarts. And a dogged determination to do right by the people of his district and the nation. Harley Rouda can make all the difference. When I joined Congress in 2015, the House of Representatives seemed pretty polarized. But I had not seen anything yet... Today, we desperately need leaders in Congress who work across the aisle to solve problems like gun violence, immigration injustice, income inequality, and global warming. And we need leaders who will serve as a check on a corrupt president who thinks he's above the law. Harley is that kind of leader. Harley is leading in the polls because he has a vision for how we can grow the economy. He opposes the GOP tax-scam, which cuts taxes for the Mar-a-Lago set, while raising taxes on the middle class. And, unlike Dana Rohrabacher, Harley has never been given a codename by Putin. Congressman Ted Lieu

Connecticut Declare War Against Nature and Nature's God, Bans Reparative Therapy for Minors

In Connecticut, a contingent of pro-family activists is rising up.

It doesn't take a lot of people to make a difference. Often, things can change for the better only because of a small team of dedicated people who wanted to make things right.

So much has been going wrong, however, in Connecticut, and if the residents of the Constitution State don't rise up, they will face worse backlashes to their liberties.

How could a state right in the heart of New England turn into such a failed trap of progressive folly?

It's gotten so bad now, that the state legislature decided to ban reparative therapy for minors, and both parties went along with it!

Connecticut bans therapy for children with unwanted gay attractions

May 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Connecticut became the sixth state in the nation to ban pro-heterosexual therapy for minors, after not a single Republican (or Democrat) in the state Senate voted against the bill, which Gov. Dannel Malloy signed into law.

Shameful. A handful of Republicans in the lower chamber voted against this perverse folly, but the legislation still passed by wide margins.

No one should be surprised. Left-wing miscreant Dannel Malloy still runs the state house in Hartford. Is there any hope for this state?

Gov. Malloy, a pro-LGBTQ Democrat, rushed to sign the so-called "conversion therapy ban" bill at a ceremony in his office at the Capitol, in what the Hartford Courant called "his fastest bill signing in seven years."

This achievement is nothing to be proud of. The Connecticut state government just normalized deviance and destruction. They pushed aside good science and common sense for tyranny and illogic. This is nothing short of despicable.

The bill, SB 6695, “prohibits health care providers or anyone else engaged in trade or commerce from providing conversion therapy.” That term is used and promoted by LGBT and liberal activists to denigrate pro-heterosexual therapy, often called “reparative therapy.” Most media use the politicized “conversion” term.

It should be called "reparative therapy." At least this reporter recognizes that the term "conversion" therapy is flawed, politicized, and ultimately fraudulent.

In signing the bill, the governor said, "This is supported by the science. It's supported by our cultural awakening and awareness that we are a society of many different players and very different folks, and we shouldn't try to make everyone just like us,” he said, according to the Hartford Courant.

When a Democrat claim that some liberal measure is supported by "science", it's important to recognize that their concept of science has been hijacked by narrow-minded ideologues paid with big money, taxpayer dollars. This scam dominates colleges, the same institutions which have fallen from education to indoctrination.

“We should recognize that some people are simply not us, but that doesn't make them bad and it certainly doesn't make them mentally ill — and it certainly should not subject them, anyone, to therapies that we know don't work and aren't supported by science,” he said.

Notice the fundamental argument that the sexual preference, if you will, is treated as a part of the person's identity. Since when did one's sexual behavior become the final determinant for who we are? This is a sad precedent, something which the otherwise very tolerant Bill O'Reilly talked about after Rosie O'Donnell came out to the public.

The Connecticut Senate voted 36-0 to approve the bill and the state House voted 141-8 to pass it — stunning landslides considering that Republicans made historic gains in both houses riding the coattails of Donald Trump in November.

This lopsided outcome demonstrates that politics is about more than winning political parties. The outcomes we want depend on more than voting in November, but also staying on the legislators, demanding that they do the right thing by the constituents whom they made broad promises during campaign season. This neglect from the citizenry is a large reason why mismanagement and corruption have become the norm in state houses and the federal government.

One former homosexual, Greg Quinlan, called the liberal rush to ban "heterosexual therapy" for minors "hysteria."

“There is no real evidence of reparative therapy doing any harm,” said Quinlan, founder and president of the Garden State Families, adding that claims by LGBT activists of therapeutic “coercion” are unfounded. “There is no electric shock, there are no IVs to induce vomiting. It’s talk therapy, like any other therapy.”

Thank God for Quinlan. I met him during the 2016 Stand For Truth Conference in Houston, Texas. He talked a great deal about the corrupt, abusive practices of the public school systems in his home state. He is still fighting the good fight, thank goodness, as he has broken free of same-sex attraction and dysphoria.

We need more bold people like Quinlan who come forward with the truth and break free of behaviors which are deviant, destructive, and dangerous.

“Connecticut’s politicians succumbed to lies from the homosexual agenda,” he said. “They are pandering to the homosexual political left.”

This is the whole problem. Pro-family groups are not organizing effectively. This is why a minority of deviants wields disproportionate power in local and state politics across the country. Conservatives need to wise up and get organized.

Another ex-“gay” man, Christopher Doyle, a licensed therapist himself and co-coordinator the National Task Force for Therapy Equality, said Connecticut lawmakers effectively re-victimized sexually abused minors through their lopsided vote.

Yup. It's time to bring out the real victims, the men and women who have been set free from harmful behaviors because of reparative therapy. Most homosexuals are the victim of sexual abuse as children. For this reason, they struggle with their identity and make sense of the confusion and pain which resulted in relationships established on trust.

“While gay activists continue to get cheap victories in liberal states like Connecticut, the ones that are losing are vulnerable young people who are conflicted and confused about their sexual and gender identity, some of whom arrived at their confusion due to sexual molestation,” said Doyle, who has fought liberal bans against reparative therapy across the country.

Mr. Doyle has been successful, and we recognize his support when MassResistance stopped the full-on ban on reparative therapy for adults in California. The tide is turning also because Massachusetts could not pass a similar ban, and Governor Paul LePage of Maine vetoed a similar bill during his final term as chief executive.

“So now, the state has raped them again: first, at the hands of their abusers, and second, at the hands of ignorant politicians who know nothing about mental health or the young people whom they are supposedly protecting,” he said.

Very powerful image. It's time for us to confront every lawmaker who wants to deprive children and adults of reparative therapy. There is no excuse for such unfounded, hateful abuse.

A recent meta-analysis in the journal The New Atlantis by leading psychiatric scholars Lawrence Mayer, Ph.D, and Dr. Paul McHugh found that “compared to heterosexuals, non-heterosexuals are about two to three times as likely to have experienced childhood sexual abuse.”

This is the kind of research and reporting which Americans need to read. It's just not happening right now. This has to change.

“Instead of protecting the rights of minors, these politicians are lining their pockets with political kickbacks from gay activists. Shame on them!” said the Virginia-based Doyle, who also heads up the ex-“gay” group Equality and Justice for All.

WOW!

Meanwhile, homosexual and “transgender” activists celebrated SB 6695’s enactment.

"Transgenderism" is part of this insanity. It's time to take a stand.

“The reason that Connecticut is taking this step is really the confluence of evidence about this treatment,” said Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, reported the CTPost. Sen. Bye is “a lesbian who cited that 40 organizations, including all mental-health professionals, supported the legislation,” according to the report.

This report does the right thing when he places the word "lesbian" in quotes. It's time to stop treating these identities as real and final. All of this is wrong.

Connecticut now becomes the sixth state to ban pro-heterosexual therapy for minors, joining California, Vermont, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and the District of Columbia.

New Jersey and New Mexico passed this legislation with a Republican governor's signature. That is wrong.

LifeSiteNews spoke with several grassroots pro-family activists involved in opposing this legislation. Most were disappointed that the Connecticut Catholic Conference did not play a leading role in fighting against it.

Wow. This is beyond shameful. Where is the Body of Christ? Where are the Christians? We need men and women of faith to rise up and shine again. They don't want to do anything, it seems. They are more interested in getting along to go along. What?!

According to several sources, some speaking on background, the Catholic Conference barely resisted SB 6695, putting forth no direct lobby effort in the Capitol and getting involved only in the last couple of days before its passage to attempt to ensure that it did not undermine religious freedom.

I have head this story many times, and not just in Connecticut.

A call seeking comment from the Connecticut Catholic Conference was not returned.

CJ Doyle, chairman of the Boston-based Catholic Action League, told LifeSiteNews that “as a general matter, the [Catholic] Church has been very tepid in resisting the homosexual agenda. Unfortunately, while they’re still willing to take a strong position against abortion, they’re weak on homosexuality.”

The Catholic Church is not fighting this issue at all. Why? The hierarchy welcomed in many homosexuals into the priesthood. The problems have grown from bad to worse since then. The massive pedophilia overwhelming the different Catholic organizations and throughout the leadership, all the way up to the Vatican, have awakened serious concerns and full outrage from the faithful laity.

Is anyone surprised, then, to see the explosion of criminal behavior and sexual perversion? Is anyone surprised that the Catholic "church" has chosen not to take a meaningful stand against wickedness?

Doyle extended the reluctance to oppose the LGBTQ agenda to the Republicans and politicians in general.

YES. Shame on the cowardly RINOs who refused to do the right thing, but went along with the crowd.

“The liberals are aggressive and malevolent,” he said. “The conservatives run for cover. … It’s pretty obvious who’s going to prevail here.”

This indictment says it all. It's terrible. MassResistance understands, however, that we need to take a bold, firm stance against this wicked behavior, that we need to draw out our strength to do what is right and speak up for the victory. The answer is not to acquiesce and accommodate, but to announce and confront.

He said the anti-heterosexual-therapy law demonstrates the “totalitarian” tendencies of the homosexual-transgender movement: “This intrudes into the parent-child relationship,” he said, “another characteristic of totalitarian societies.

The "totalitarian" tendencies. Yes. This program is all about pushing a Big Government agenda, that the state has all the answers, and everyone else has to go along with it. This "reparative therapy ban" is nothing more than a solid yet subtle form of cultural Marxism.

The new Connecticut law defines "Conversion therapy" as “any practice or treatment administered to a person under 18 years of age that seeks to change the person's sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, any effort to change gender expression or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward persons of the same gender.”

Even "Sexual orientation" is a misleading term, as though individuals enter the world with one train of desire, and that track defines their life and way of living for good. There are too many people in cultures all over who

Notably, the law states that "’conversion therapy’ does not include counseling intended to … assist a person undergoing gender transition,” and as well as other LGBT-affirming interventions.

So, it's OK to go from straight to gay, but not from gay to straight. Someone explain how this is logical, fair, moral, or just. Oh, that's right ... it isn't/

One group that did fight SB 6695 head on was Mass Resistance. Bill Brown, a Connecticut activist affiliated with MR, hand-delivered informational sheets opposing the LGBTQ bill.

And here we are!

Way to go, Bill Brown!

“Bill HB 6695 is deceptively and dishonestly titled An Act Concerning the Protection of Youth from Conversion Therapy. In fact, it puts vulnerable kids in danger – to support a radical ideology. It would make it illegal for licensed therapists to help children deal with traumatic issues leading to homosexual or transgender behavior,” said the Mass Resistance flier.

Excellent.

“Homosexual and transgender behavior in children is very often a result of early sexual trauma such as sexual molestation, rape, exposure to pornography, abuse, or serious issues with one or both parents. Victimized youth can become further traumatized and even suicidal,” the MR flier states. “Skilled mental health professionals can often help them heal their severe emotional wounds and work through these issues. For many, it is literally a lifesaver.”

Brown told LifeSiteNews that he believes so few Republicans voted against the bill as part of a Senate strategy — which he disagrees with — of “playing it safe so they don’t look mean so they can get one more Republican senator in the next election.”

UGH.

The Connecticut Senate is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats for the first time in decades.

Mass Resistance national founder and president Brian Camenker told LifeSiteNews that “Connecticut is unusual. There are lot of liberal states where this type of legislation has been killed,” noting it has been defeated twice in his own deep-blue state of Massachusetts.

Then it was defeated a third time this year.

Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, like Doyle, said SB 6695  was a “solution in search of a problem,” since "we had not been able to identify a single program in CT that would be outlawed by the bill.”

Wolgang favored an approach of amending the legislation to limit its potential to undermine religious freedom in other areas.

FIC challenged proponents of SB 6695 to “name the religious ministries in Connecticut that do conversion therapy, name the licensed professionals in Connecticut that supposedly practice conversion therapy, that are the targets of this bill. We don’t believe their claims that this exists in Connecticut.”

Doyle said, “During the entire legislative session, our Task Force could not find one licensed practitioner that actually worked with youth in any way remotely close to what the liberal-dominated legislature described. But that didn't stop them from banning a practice called ‘conversion therapy.’"

He said that term “was coined by gay activists to make the public believe that gay youth are being converted from ‘gay to straight.’ The reality is that licensed counselors do not convert gay youth, especially in coercive and tortuous ways that these activists are claiming.”

Doyle said the “lies of gay activists, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign, and National Center for Lesbian Rights, who are the organizations lobbying for these bills, are so fraudulent” that his National Task Force for Therapy Equality filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission last week to set the record straight for legislators and the wider public.

Final Reflection

It's time for more concerned citizens to rise up and fight back against this abuse of power from the state. It's time for us to reject this homosexual tyranny and demand equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

People who want to be set free from homosexuality should have every right to seek the therapy which sets them free. They have every right to seek the truth, and no one should forbid them from getting the training and care they want.

Reparative therapy works. Reparative therapy saves lives. It's time to stop being nice and starting fight back!

Make Torrance Great Again: Issue Formal Opposition to SB 54

TO: Torrance, CA CITY COUNCIL and city attorney

MAKE TORRANCE SAFE AGAIN….

OPPOSE SB 54 FORMALLY…

and join 50 other cities who FORMALLY did the same!

Criminal vs. Non-Criminal Alien “ARRESTS”
IN 2017, FROM January 20 to September 30

ICE arrested 110,568 “aliens” FROM 29 total CATEGORIES

of which 105,736 “aliens” had known CRIMINAL convictions

AMONG WHICH WERE:

Homicide	Kidnapping	Commercialized Sex Offenses	OTHER Sex Offenses
Weapons Offenses	Dangerous Drugs	Sexual Assault	OTHER Assault

 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report (ERO) for Fiscal Year 2017

 https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2017#wcm-survey-target-id

CALIF. ILLEGAL alien CRIMINALS NOW GETCHARGED
WITH LESSER NON-DEPORTABLE CRIMES (partial list BELOW)



  SB54 restricts law enforcement from duties in cooperation of these offenses :    

·     HUMAN TRAFFICKING /              Sex Trafficking ·     PROSTITUTION / Massage parlors ·     Child PORNOGRAPHY ·     DRUG POSSESSION & sale ·     ARSON, burning, malicious or reckless ·     GANG MEMBER ·     Receiving STOLEN PROPERTY or VEHICLE ·     OPERATE CHOP SHOP ·     Vehicle TAKING, permanent or temporary ·     FREEWAY CHASE (FLIGHT from peace officer WITH WANTON DISREGARD FOR SAFETY)

·     Possession of weapon WITH INTENT TO ASSAULT ·     Driving WITHOUT A LICENSE ·     Driving WITH SUSPENDEDLICENSE ·     DUI (felony) ·     DUI causing BODILY INJURY ·     HIT & RUN felony (or misdemeanor) ·     RECKLAS DRIVING with INJURY ·     THROW object INTO TRAFFIC (i.e.: tossing large rocks/ boulders INTO WINDSHIELDSFROM OVERPASS BRIDGES onfreeways) ·      FALSE ID ·      WELFARE FRAUD ·      THEFT, FRAUD, FORGERY (elder abuse)

 www.ilrc.org/chart        

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/fullscreen/29593040/california-quick-reference-chart-only-ilrc

PA Governor Subverts Legislatures With Gender Ideology Push (Per Keith Hardine)

In Federalist Paper #10, of 1788, James Madison warned us about the following:

"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of [self] interest, adverse to the [Natural] rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

Factions are defined as groups that have common interests and try to destroy the Natural Rights and interests of others to get their own way.

Relative to today, a Pennsylvania agency has made an end run around the citizens to impose gender ideology.

Last month, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission released new guidance reinterpreting the category of “sex” in state anti-discrimination law to include “sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender identity, gender transition, and/or gender expression.”

The commission circumvented the state Legislature, which never added categories like sexual orientation and gender identity into law, thereby circumventing voters as well.

But what does this change in policy mean for the average Pennsylvanian?

This new policy could significantly curtail the First Amendment rights of citizens, as a similar policy has already done in Philadelphia.

* Source—Pennsylvania Agency Goes Around Legislature to Impose Gender Ideology.