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Related: About this forumChris Christie’s ‘Deeply Religious Sex Cult’?
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/chris-christies-deeply-religious-sex-cult/politics/2013/08/30/74230by DAVID BADASH on AUGUST 30, 2013
New Jersey governor Chris Christie is a progressive who is apparently, unwittingly, leading a deeply religious sex cult determined to exterminate Christian mores, attack religious liberties, and suppress free speech, according to the latest screed by a radical religious right-wing conservative writer. Christie, you and even he will be shocked to learn, has put New Jersey on a path similar to countries like Saudi Arabia, because he recently signed a law banning so-called ex-gay therapy for minors. All this comes from the radical religious right-wing conservative writer Fay Voshell at the dubiously-monikered American Thinker, in her latest op-ed, Conversion Therapy Law Threatens Christians.
The American Thinker, by the way, has also published actual well-known radical right wing conservatives (as opposed to Voshell, of whom practically no one has heard), like hate mongers Ann Coulter and Michael Savage. Savages work is so savage that the good people of the United Kingdom have barred him from entering their fine country since 2009, for allegedly seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred. Ann Coulters work is so savage the mere sound of her voice or name sends shivers akin to nails on a blackboard down many peoples spines.
For her part, Voshell likens the ban on conversion therapy to Islams ban on allowing its (un)faithful to convert to Christianity. As is well-known, so-called ex-gay, reparative, or conversion therapies as part of the larger group of antediluvian and draconian sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) have been deemed psychologically harmful and ineffective by every major medical organization. No word yet on any potential psychological harm caused by conversion from one religion to another.
Governor Christie expressly forbade conversion from the prevailing progressive religion, whose chief doctrine is that sexual behavior, including the homoerotic behavior of some children, is a sacred, infallible, and therefore unchangeable indicator of what human identity entails, Voshell curiously claims.
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Chris Christie’s ‘Deeply Religious Sex Cult’? (Original Post)
cbayer
Aug 2013
OP
"Gays in Saudi Arabia are banned from schools, thrown in jail, and even whipped"
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#4
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)1. He's "turning New Jersey into gay Saudi Arabia."
That writer is on some serious shit. Whatever it is, it makes PCP look like aspirin.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Here's a link to the original article, if you wish to see more of it:
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)3. I love it
Christie is nothing but an opportunist.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)4. "Gays in Saudi Arabia are banned from schools, thrown in jail, and even whipped"
Gays in Saudi Arabia are banned from schools, thrown in jail, and even whipped simply for the crime of being gay.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/08/09/barack-obamas-surpsrising-lack-of-patience-for-russias-anti-gay-laws/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/08/09/barack-obamas-surpsrising-lack-of-patience-for-russias-anti-gay-laws/
okasha
(11,573 posts)5. And sometimes killed.
Homophobia is the death cult.