May 2018
by: John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera Breakpoint.org Once again in California, we see that the new sexual orthodoxy trumps the Constitution. All Americans should be alarmed, and I mean increasingly so, about the California Assembly’s increasing disregard for the First Amendment. After all, it’s the California Assembly that attempted to require pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise the state’s “free or low-cost” abortion services, the subject of a recent Supreme Court oral argument. Even liberal Justice Sotomayor called that law “burdensome and wrong.”
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But now, the California Assembly has same-sex attraction as long as the goal is voted to add what it calls “conversion “acceptance, support, and understanding” therapy” to the list of “deceptive business and avoiding “unlawful conduct or unsafe practices” prohibited by state law. sexual practices.” California already banned “conversion But if the goal is to somehow to alter or therapy,” at least for minors, in 2012. even rein in those attractions or associated This new bill, behaviors, it’s AB 2943, not Words like “goods,”“acceptance,” against the law. only extends “support” and “understanding” Now by that ban to this are the legal equivalent of itself, adults, it also level of state makes the sale minefields waiting to blow up. i n t e r f e r e n c e of all goods with patientand services involving “sexual orientation doctor relationships raises significant change efforts” an “unlawful business constitutional issues. It’s forgotten that practice.” an important part of the rationale behind Thus, according to this bill, you can Roe v. Wade was that the right to privacy talk to a psychotherapist about your included doctors and patients being able
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to decide on a course of treatment without undue government interference. But what makes matters worse is that AB 2943 is so broadly and vaguely worded. It’s hard to predict where this thing will reach. Words like “goods,” “acceptance,” “support” and “understanding” are the legal equivalent of minefields waiting to blow up. For example, if a psychotherapist doesn’t try to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity but is, in the patients’ eyes, insufficiently accepting, supportive, and understanding, has he run afoul of AB 2943? And what constitutes a “good?” Does
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