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Lawmakers: If you don’t want to be gay, too bad

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , November 30, 2012, ( Human Life International )—The push by Democratic lawmakers to discriminate against people seeking help to leave homosexual lifestyles just went national. Their message: If you don’t want to be gay anymore, well that’s just too bad. In another example of lawmakers creating an environment of intolerance while trying to legislate tolerance, Rep. Jackie Speier , D-CA,  introduced a resolution in Congress this week , co-sponsored by Reps. Ted Deutc, D-FL, and David Cicilline , D-RI, to discourage and discriminate against young people seeking help with homosexual attraction. Congresswoman Jackie Speier. Her effort follows a recent state effort in California, the first in the nation, which prevents young people from receiving counseling or therapy to deal with unwanted same-sex attraction , even if expressly desired by the youths. Signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in September, that law is currently being challenged in court. Rep. Speier  beli

EU threatens to withhold financial support from Hungary over definition of marriage: report

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Image by erjkprunczyk via Flickr BUDAPEST, January 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - European Union officials are making their disapproval of Hungary ’s recent constitutional changes felt by threatening to withhold financial support if it does not remove its new amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, according to one Hungarian source. The so-called “Easter constitution”  adopted  in the post- Communist country last May was a major shakeup for Hungarian politics and an outrage to progressive EU ideology: the document not only supported marriage but declared that the unborn child deserves protection from the moment of conception, and even made special mention of Christianity as lying at the heart of the country’s identity. The document’s discussion of human rights also does not mention sexual orientation, another break from EU priorities. The Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet   claimed  this week that the EU would move to drop financial aid to Hungary unless officials t