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Tony Perkins: Ban On ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Will Help Recruit LGBT Youth – VIDEO

Michael Fitzgerald December 11, 2014

Tony Perkins, the leader of rabidly anti-gay listed hate group the Family Research Council, has issued a press release condemning the introduction of a law banning gay “conversion therapy” in Washington, D.C.

PerkinsTony Perkins, the leader of rabidly anti-gay listed hate group the Family Research Council, has issued a press release condemning the introduction of a law banning gay “conversion therapy” in Washington, D.C., reports Joe My God.

Writing on the hate group's website, Perkins takes a positive spin on a harmful practices condemned by the American Psychological Association, promulgates the idea that LGBT youth choose to take part and compares “conversion therapy” to “counseling aimed at helping kids make the transition into another sex.”

“In Washington, D.C., destructive behavior isn't just encouraged — efforts to stop it are punished! If kids are looking for a way out of their same-sex attractions, they'll have to start outside of the nation's capital. Under a measure just passed by the D.C. Council, counselors can lose their license just for offering the kind of therapy these children seek. Like California and New Jersey, the District is radically opposed to helping young people shake the unwanted sexual feelings they have for members of the same sex.

“It's all part of the new Conversion Therapy for Minors Prohibition Act, which makes it a crime for therapists and mental health practitioners to coach children out of the sexual confusion they're experiencing. Council member and author Mary Cheh insists that the District's move is “a crucial step in the long battle” against “the counterproductive anti-homosexual mindset.” The fact that children are seeking this help doesn't seem to matter to D.C., which is intent on locking kids into a lifestyle with devastating health, emotional, and societal consequences. Instead, the District wants to make it an offense to help children come to grips with their natural biology — opening a frightening chapter in the liberal recruiting of LGBTs.

“In a twisted irony, the Council made it quite clear that counseling aimed at helping kids make the transition into another sex is perfectly acceptable. It's a ludicrous double standard — one that should draw the ire of every parent who rightly believes they should be the final authority on the kind of treatment their child should receive.”

Watch David Pakman on Perkins' claim to be on the winning side in the fight for same-sex marriage, AFTER THE JUMP…

Last month, Perkins hinted at a possible boycott of Apple after CEO Tim Cook came out as gay. He has also said that gay rights are part of a wider "anti-life" agenda to end humanity as we know it.

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