Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk.
Contents:
- CANADA: LAW COULD LOCK UP RELIG PEOPLE FOR FIVE YEARS IF THEY RIST CHILD’S ‘TRANSN,’ GAY INTY
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
- NEW CANADIAN LAW WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR CHRISTIANS TO EVEN PRAY FOR THE HEALG OF GAYS & TRANSGENRS
CANADA: LAW COULD LOCK UP RELIG PEOPLE FOR FIVE YEARS IF THEY RIST CHILD’S ‘TRANSN,’ GAY INTY
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers. * canada new gay law *
And the thought procs is, we need to make this a terrible practice—of harmg children particularly, but even adults—crimal so that people won’t be tortured, jt bee they’re gay or they’re transgenr.
So, someone who’s wantg to rce a gay porn addictn, or wantg to be fahful to their spoe, even the same-sex spoe and not want to engage sexual activy outsi of that marriage, bee gay marriage, same-sex marriage, is legal here as well, they uldn’t get unselg to rce that behavr, acrdg to the wordg and the fn of the so, as someone who’s followed this law, I n tell you the arguments beg ma to ph for this law, that were ma, and that are ma to enforce this law started 2015 when Ontar, our biggt provce, passed their first nversn therapy ban Canada. You n have homosexual attractns, but not intify as homosexual. All the surveys that are beg done on nversn therapy here Canada, survey people who still intify as, one of the largt on here surveyed people who went to gay bars, gay datg webs, who are part of gay advocy anizatns.
And they claim 11, 000 gay men have been tortured through nversn therapy Canada. I talked to a prcipal at a Christian school, one of the largt where I’m om, and when they had a gay-straight alliance club forced on them, and the clubs are polil clubs promotg theologil views of homosexualy that is ntrary to Scripture, he didn’t realize until this club was legally forced on them that half of his own teachers were now pro-LGBTQ. And the word homosexual was created as a way to fight laws agast homosexual practice Germany.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
And the are gay historians and alli who are talkg about this, this is not ntroversial. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
Notably, fluencg a person’s sexualy or genr inty is only nsired “nversn therapy” when falls le wh biblil teachgs; fluencg a mor or adult to be gay, nonbary, or transgenr, is acceptable. They reflect myths and stereotyp about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and Two-Spir (LGBTQ2) muni, particularly that their sexual orientatn, genr inty or genr exprsn are wrong.
I thk the laws [crimalizg nsensual gay sex] create a system of homophobia. — Andrew Williams (psdonym), a 28-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, January 11, 2023. If people are havg an argument, that’s [their] jtifitn for homophobia.
NEW CANADIAN LAW WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR CHRISTIANS TO EVEN PRAY FOR THE HEALG OF GAYS & TRANSGENRS
— Samuel Sayers (psdonym), a 25-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, October 25, 2022. This progrs has been slow and cremental, spearhead by civil society efforts the regn to abolish laws that crimalize gay sex. The laws rerce societal prejudic, effectively givg tac legal sanctn for stigma, discrimatn, and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
The laws are vaguely word, have broad latu, and sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offens” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt. In July 2019, two gay men om Sat Vcent and the Grenad livg abroad filed a se challengg the nstutnaly of the discrimatory provisns the crimal . Along wh Domi, Guyana, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia—the other five untri the Caribbean that crimalize gay sex—Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntu to be an outlier a hemisphere that has chewed the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex.