California Banning The Bible...

[My I]

Libs assaulting freedom of speech and freedom of religion...

Not that I'm a fan of the Bible but this is wrong on SOOO many levels. Just goes to show what happens when Libs smoke too much dope.

You know what? I find stupid people offensive. So I'm gonna push for banning irrational and unreasonable behavior here in Ohio.

 

[phrodeau]

Find a real news source, and people might care.

 

[Blue]

Why don't you actually read the bill itself since it's public information?

The bill proposes banning the advertisement of gay conversion therapy framed as a science or effective treatment, as an extension of existing law that stops people who sell magic healing crystals and other new age nonsense from saying that their 'treatment' is medically effective.
In case you didn't know, gay conversion therapy doesn't work.

It does not ban the sale of media that is critical of homosexuality.

When you come here with a story so easy to debunk it makes you look like you aren't an intellectually serious person. More like a mindless zealot parroting whatever you're told.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Let's see. A book around which has grown a massive cult who is told it's okay to murder and rape so long as you believe what the book says, that women can be treated like property, that stoning your kid if they talk back to you is okay (alright, maybe that could be a good thing), and that the greatest joy you can receive is for the world to be destroyed so you can die.

Sounds like it might be a good candidate for banning, though I would still disagree on First Amendment grounds. If anything, California should be requiring this to be read in every school so people can be informed of its cult-like devotion and not fall victim.

https://9gag.com/gag/aeMQ9vQ

 

[DMBFFF]

Given that the KJV , Geneva, and Tyndale Bibles are the only legitimate English translations of the Word of God—and the others are Satanic counterfeits—banning such might not be a bad thing.

 

[KeithD]

No, My I, it just shows how fucked up your choices of what "news" sources to follow and worship is. Not the least bit surprised.

 

[Schlank]

Nice try, but AB 2943 doesn't actually propose banning the Bible at all. This is just a talking point fabricated by the bill's opponents.

What this bill ACTUALLY DOES is expand existing California prohibitions on so-called “conversion therapy,” deemed both junk science and psychological abuse of minors in an earlier bill, SB 1172, by then-State Sen. Ted Lieu that Gov. Jerry Brown signed in 2012. That bill protects minors so once in Congress, Rep. Lieu introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act (TFPA), the first federal bill to stop so-called “conversion therapy” as fraud.

“The irony of the conversion therapy industry is that the same people who are telling LGBT kids that they’re diseased are the same ones conveniently offering a high-priced, high-risk, ineffective cure,” Lieu said in 2015 introducing the federal bill.

“Conversion therapy sessions and materials are incredibly expensive, costing families thousands of dollars and offering no results. It’s a dangerous scam, and the government must act to protect LGBT Americans from fraudsters who take their money and lie to them.”

Out California Assemblymember Evan Low agrees, authoring AB 2943 with the backing of the LGBT Legislative Caucus to declare that “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy” is “a fraudulent business practice that misleads consumers and exposes LGBTQ people to damaging psychological abuse,” according to an Equality California press release.

The bill came up for a vote on Tuesday in the California Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. It passed overwhelmingly, 8-2, with Republican Assemblymember Catharine Baker of Dublin, recently endorsed for re-election by Equality California, joining the seven committee Democrats. AB 2943 now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

“So-called ‘conversion therapy’ is as ineffective as it is psychologically damaging. We’re grateful to the bipartisan group of Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee members who today recognized this practice for what it is: consumer fraud that harms LGBTQ Californians,” Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur said.

 

[kropotkin]

Wrong and Right

A boy who thinks he's a girl should not go to a program that is intended to change his mind, but he is welcome go to surgeons and take injections to change the appearance of his body?

 

[phrodeau]

A boy who thinks he's a girl should not go to a program that is intended to change his mind, but he is welcome go to surgeons and take injections to change the appearance of his body?

There is no program intended to change his mind. They are all scams. That’s the point of the bill.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Given that the KJV , Geneva, and Tyndale Bibles are the only legitimate English translations of the Word of God—and the others are Satanic counterfeits—banning such might not be a bad thing.

And the 'lost' scrolls?

Christians and Catholics alike are gonna be pissed. I go w/God.

 

[Hypoxia]

It's no use trying to ban any of the many bibllcal text collections infesting the world. Someone will always devise more. I automated the process maybe 20-25 years ago with a Roll-Ur-Own-Bible program, available via Usenet. Point to the canonical or apocryphal texts and translations you want, or let it randomize, assembling a desired version of The Word Of Lord {JHWH} for your personal delectation and instruction.

Some of that NT apocrypha is pretty wild stuff. Yeah, ban the part about Jesus causing a childhood enemy to shrivel like a dried date. But also ban the Leviticus stuff about killing sassy kids or selling them into slavery. And that incest stuff, ay yi yi. Not to mention the erotic Song of Solomon. Thy scrotum is like... yada yada...

 

[NickStJohn]

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[Hypoxia]

Alabama should ban DIANETICS. Then all the Scientology lawyers would rush there and boost the economy.

But watch who pushes Ban-The-Bible fear stories. I bet it's bible publishers trying to boost sales, same as NRA pushing confiscation-fear as a form of firearms marketing.

 

[phrodeau]

Mainstream Christians love nothing better than being suppressed and persecuted. They'd much rather defend the Bible than read the darned thing.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Let's see. A book around which has grown a massive cult who is told it's okay to murder and rape so long as you believe what the book says, that women can be treated like property, that stoning your kid if they talk back to you is okay (alright, maybe that could be a good thing), and that the greatest joy you can receive is for the world to be destroyed so you can die.

Sounds like it might be a good candidate for banning, though I would still disagree on First Amendment grounds. If anything, California should be requiring this to be read in every school so people can be informed of its cult-like devotion and not fall victim.

https://9gag.com/gag/aeMQ9vQ

You're thinking of the old testament and Christian Crusades. Stop being so old school Baptist.

Not the 1st time books, especially the Bible, have been banned. It's the way of the LWCJ whenever they disagree w/something they don't like.


I know right? Talk to the hand?

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Mainstream Christians love nothing better than being suppressed and persecuted. They'd much rather defend the Bible than read the darned thing.

I will not disagree w/you there.

 

[Hypoxia]

Mainstream Christians love nothing better than being suppressed and persecuted.

Especially when members of their cult run 95% of the nation's politics and business. How they suffer!

They'd much rather defend the Bible than read the darned thing.

It's best if they don't read it, to avoid confusion over stuff like pi, zero, diet, and the joy of smashing your enemy's children against the rocks.

Gosh, I haven't had a good blood sacrifice in YEARS! Bring me the dagger.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It's no use trying to ban any of the many bibllcal text collections infesting the world. Someone will always devise more. I automated the process maybe 20-25 years ago with a Roll-Ur-Own-Bible program, available via Usenet. Point to the canonical or apocryphal texts and translations you want, or let it randomize, assembling a desired version of The Word Of Lord {JHWH} for your personal delectation and instruction.

Some of that NT apocrypha is pretty wild stuff. Yeah, ban the part about Jesus causing a childhood enemy to shrivel like a dried date. But also ban the Leviticus stuff about killing sassy kids or selling them into slavery. And that incest stuff, ay yi yi. Not to mention the erotic Song of Solomon. Thy scrotum is like... yada yada...

I thought the Song of Solomon was about women or a woman. Why would there be a reference to a scrotum?

 

[phrodeau]

I thought the Song of Solomon was about women or a woman. Why would there be a reference to a scrotum?

It's all in the interpretation. The Song of Solomon appears to be a dialogue between a man and a woman, with the woman saying things like, "My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh," which could mean anything.

 

[Hypoxia]

I thought the Song of Solomon was about women or a woman. Why would there be a reference to a scrotum?

I thought you'd been on LIT awhile?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I thought you'd been on LIT awhile?

I have. And I also know enough about biology to know what a scrotum is.

 

[Hypoxia]

I have. And I also know enough about biology to know what a scrotum is.

I'll let someone else point out the obvious.

 

[dan_c00000]

It'd be awesome if they banned guns next.