California Says Stay Gay, Shut Up, or Go to Jail. Conservatives Should Give It No Quarter.
Peter Sprigg has an exhaustive and eloquent summary of conservative alarms about California’s AB 2943. This law strives to ban sexual orientation change therapy. It will prohibit engaging in efforts to change “behaviors” and “gender expression.” It also bars attempts to reduce someone’s sexual or romantic attractions to the same sex. This law does not limit its scope to abusive therapy such as electroshock. It applies to all ages. Its ban applies whether the patient wants help to change or not. Conservatives have complained that this bill amounts to banning the Bible. In fact, its impact is broader. And crueler. Homosexual arousal already floods schools’ sexual education programs and popular culture. This law appears to take a segment of California’s population hostage to the LGBT community. Young Californians are prompted everywhere to experiment with homosexuality. Then people tell them repeatedly that if they have engaged in it they were “born” gay. By law, nobody can suggest that...