Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
Interpretation
Conversion therapy is a harmful practice that targets children's identities, claiming to change their sexual orientation.
Gavin Newsom's quote emphasizes the damaging nature of conversion therapy, which is often disguised as a form of religious or emotional intervention. It highlights the ethical concerns surrounding this practice, particularly its impact on children, who are vulnerable and deserve protection from such emotional manipulation and harm.
In practice
This quote can be used in a debate about LGBTQ+ rights.
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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