Props to DOM who is all over this at his blog /podcast launch base.
Boca Raton banned Gay conversion therapy. The district court upheld it. The 11th Circuit struck it down 2-1. Boca can now convert homosexuals to heterosexuals. Yippee! And they can do it without wearing masks.
Are you as sick as we are over the bent of the judiciary? Make no mistake- this is NOT conservatism; laissez faire capitalism and the market place deciding outcomes. This is religious jurisprudence, pure and simple. What the idiots who are Republicans THINK is conservatism but wouldn't know a conservative if they tripped over William F Buckley's grave while reading Atlas Shrugged, is nothing more than their side of the collectivist coin.
So because the 11th Circuit is in this kind of mood, we suggest they approve some more types of conversion therapies:
First- Convert Jews to Christianity. This is after all a Christian nation, right?
Second- Convert Democrats into Republicans. No more messy elections.
Convert godless vegetarians into meat eaters. Down with Castro and communism.
Convert poetry readers into action film junkies. Convert lovers of classical music into metalheads.
And finally, convert bloggers into street sweepers where they can serve society.
Pardon us while we go vomit after reading the opinion.
4 comments:
No need for hysteria. This is a bread and butter 1st Amendment issue. Has nothing to do with gay rights. It concerns the free speech rights of a counselor and patient. For free speech advocates, a slam dunk.
While conversion therapy is based on bigoted religious metaphysics, and it can be heartbreakingly harmful, a government compelling or restricting doctor speech plainly violates the First Amendment.
Rump: How many other first amendment rights do you think should be curtailed to appease your left wing cronies?
As one of Rumpole's "left wing cronies," I nevertheless understand the view expressed by the majority of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the conversion therapy case. Indeed, Rumpole himself re-stated what the court said: if it's ok to prohibit conversion talk therapy, then it would be ok to prohibit Judaism conversion classes, prohibit efforts to get people to eat more veggies, etc. The person who seeks the conversion therapy is free to do so; I think the real problem people had with this type of therapy was the suggestion that parents may have forced their child(ren) to undergo it, which was not an issue that was before the courts.
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