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NJ governor to sign ban on gay conversion therapy
In a signing note accompanying the bill that will be made public Monday, Christie said he believes people are born gay and that homosexuality is not a sin. That view is inconsistent with his Catholic faith.
The Republican governor also said the health risks of trying to change a child’s sexual orientation, as identified by the American Psychological Association, outweigh concerns over the government setting limits on parental choice.
Gay rights groups say the practice is damaging to young people because it tells them that it’s not acceptable to be whoever they are.
Some social conservatives framed the debate as a parental rights issue, saying a ban on the counseling would limit the ability of parents to do what they think is best for their children.
The idea of conversion therapy is an old one that has increasingly drawn criticism for its methods. Last year, four gay men sued a Jersey City group for fraud, saying its program included making them strip naked and attack effigies of their mothers with baseball bats.
Lawmakers heard horror stories from some during hearings on the ban, including Brielle Goldani of Toms River, who testified she underwent electric shocks and was given drugs to induce vomiting after being sent to an Ohio camp at age 14 to become straight.
But, they also heard from Tara King, a Brick-based counselor, who said she should be allowed to “fix” what patients, even under-aged clients, want fixed.
Christie, another idiot who thinks that all gays became that way by one method only, that they were born that way.
You can be born that way, you can also be influenced by events that happen to you after you’re born heterosexual. These people could be helped if they want it, but not in New Jersey.
I’ve written my views on this a number of times, even causing a longtime reader to quit the site because they couldn’t accept my non-narrow view.
They said their belief was that all gay people were molested. (?????????????)
I said that I’ve definitely seen kids 4 and 5 years old that you can tell were gay before they were even sexually aware.
I conceded that it’s possible that someone could become gay because they were molested, but it’s not possible to become a raging queen toddler because you were molested. How does that happen? Did the molester threaten the kid that he must wear a tiara and carry a Tinkerbell wand? Think people. That is all I ask.



J Frank Parnell
August 19th, 2013
The bloated hog (weakness) is a pandering statist? Nawwwwwwww!
BigFurHat
August 19th, 2013
Forget gay conversion therapy, I want RINO conversion therapy.
Bob M.
August 19th, 2013
Between people leaving over dumb politicians making dumber laws, and the fact that even “married” sodomites CAN’T reproduce, I wonder if anybody in the “D” states (those ruled by “DUMBASSES) have figured out whay their NATIVE-born population is shrinking yet?
Unruly Refugee
August 19th, 2013
Christie should have his large ass converted into Big Macs. He could feed all the homeless in NY city.
Unruly Refugee
August 19th, 2013
Christie is a fucking idiot. “homosexuality is not a sin” and these views clash with his Catholic faith? Sodom and Gomorrah, fat man. There was a reason. Try reading a bible before you play the Catholic card.
BigFurHat
August 19th, 2013
You can’t discuss what is a sin or not and simply get it wrong or rewrite it, like Obama does with the constitution.
As soon as you invoke the concept of “sin” you’re in a certain arena. It’s not an arena of your own making. Learn the friggin rules, Fat Man.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
August 19th, 2013
Regardless, why is he taking away therapy from people who so obviously need it? Tell you what, Greed is a sin, he was born fat, so he’s banned from access to food.
Fat idiot.
Chalupa
August 19th, 2013
Previous generations have tried to change the definitions of sin and have gone down in flames – this generation will do the same. God is not mocked, never changes and cannot be badgered into changing His laws.
DepSlimChiply
August 19th, 2013
So, a guy can get his wang chopped off and become a woman.
A woman can have a wang sown on and become a guy.
A gay gay isn’t allowed to become a straight guy? Why they heck not?
D B Cooper
August 19th, 2013
BFH please use your graphic design abilities to
put the Guv’s gigantic face on a bumper sticker
that says: NUKE THE GAY WHALE.
Anonymous
August 19th, 2013
Christie has done the full monty: he’s revealed himself as a “Biden Catholic”. For them, religion is an a la carte menu from which they can cherry-pick their little personal handful of beliefs.
Hope Krispy invites Nancy Pelosi to his childrens’ confirmations.
Hank
August 19th, 2013
Didn’t Christie recently get his stomach stapled because he was born with the inability to avoid a fifth helping at a buffet?
:-|
August 19th, 2013
3×4=11 is all you need to know about the USA now.
OneLastTime
August 19th, 2013
So if gay conversion therapy is illegal then taxpayers won’t have to pay for it, right? Like heroin is illegal but we still have to pay for their needles? Like border hopping is illegal but we still have to pay for their living expenses?