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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.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.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
Building Union among people not cooperation between states
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