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Sen. Marco Rubio, who is probably going to run for president in 2016, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a fundraising dinner for the Florida Family Policy Council, a conservative organization that promotes so-called conversion therapy, a discredited counseling practice that claims to cure gay people and turn them straight.
More from Tim Murphy at Mother Jones:
According to an invitation to the November 16 event, first reported by the progressive watchdog siteRight Wing Watch, the dinner will honor Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law and founder of the Liberty Counsel, which provides legal support to social conservative organizations. Stavers group filed a lawsuit against Christie last week alleging that New Jerseys new ban on gay conversion therapy prevented a couple from properly treating their son. Staver has a history of making incendiary claims about gays. In June, he claimed that the passage of the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit employers from discriminating against LGBT employees and applicants, would result in significant damage and even death of some individuals. After the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last summer, Staver suggested the decision would bring the nation closer to the realm of rebellion.
John Stemberger, the Florida Family Policy Councils president, is also an anti-gay activist. He is chairman of Trail Life, the moral alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which recently lifted its ban on gay Scouts. Trail Life wont accept openly gay boys as members, but offers counseling services to kids who suffer from gender confusion.
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/11/marco_rubio_raising_money_for_group_that_tries_to_cure_gay_people/
muntrv
(14,505 posts)that Marco Rubio has.
Initech
(100,054 posts)They harm more families than they hurt, and they're using a discredited practice at that. Fuck them.