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Is West Lafayette Indiana's proposed ban on “conversion therapy” actually aimed at ending Biblical counseling?

By Filings on Fri, 01/21/22
Society & Culture
Conversion Therapy
Biblical Counseling
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Al Mohler: “What becomes very clear here is that this ordinance … is directly intended to shut down biblical counseling” - BPNews

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Bert Perry

NewOde to sloppy writing....

Fri, 01/21/22

….is how I’d characterize the ordinance. There are serious laws to address real issues, and there are places where politicians posture, create law to posture, and thus work only to create full employment for lawyers. In this case„ there are very real issues with a narrower definition of conversion therapy, where previous generations of secular psychologists and psychiatrists effectively used physical and mental torture to push people out of homosexuality. But the ordinance here is so broadly written that it effectively criminalizes reading many passages of the Bible—it’s a clear 1st Amendment violation, one that I’m sure the city council would take to the Supreme Court at taxpayer expense if challenged.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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Steve Newman

NewIs this ordinance aimed at Faith in particular?

Fri, 01/21/22

Faith has had a well-known counseling ministry - is this aimed at them in particular?

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Related . . .

Topics: Conversion Therapy, Counseling, Sexual Ethics, Children
  • Waterloo, Iowa repeals ban on 'conversion therapy' for minors
  • The Evangelical Theological Society after Obergefell
  • Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case
  • Ex-gay counselor files lawsuit against Maryland's gay conversion therapy ban for minors
  • Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Washington 'gay conversion therapy' ban

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