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Today, Liberty Counsel filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, asking the court to rehear Pickup v. Brown, Liberty Counsel’s case against California’s change therapy ban. Recently, a three-judge panel of the court upheld California’s ban on change therapy. In December 2012, a separate panel of three judges from the same court issued an injunction blocking the law.

Under this law, minors are not able to receive any counsel from a licensed therapist which seeks to change unwanted same-sex sexual or romantic attractions, behaviors or mannerisms, or identity. Nor will licensed counselors be permitted to offer such counsel, despite the fact that their clients are currently benefiting from such counsel.

The panel’s decision that SB1172 does not abridge the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children conflicts with Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedents, which reject ‘the statist notion that governmental power should supersede parental authority,’ (Parham v. J.R.), and affirm that ‘the right to family association includes the right of parents to make important medical decisions for their children, and of children to have those decisions made by their parents rather than the state’ (Wallis v. Spencer),” the petition states.

Please pray that Liberty Counsel is successful in blocking legislators and judges in the state of California from essentially telling young people that they must pursue their unwanted same-sex sexual attractions.

Read our news release for more details and then head over to our Facebook page to let us know what you think. Also, check out this month’s Liberator.
 

Reclaiming a Culture of Innocence

     As our nation promotes promiscuity as normal and abortion as a solution, we must arm ourselves with knowledge of how our society has plunged to this moral level. In “Sexual Sabotage,” Dr. Judith Reisman exposes the fraud and abuse surrounding Alfred Kinsey’s so-called studies. During World War II and the decades that followed, Kinsey and his Indiana cohorts sabotaged our nation by entering our libraries and schools as “sex educators,” ridiculing marriage, fidelity, and chastity. Uncovering the treacherous acts of Kinsey and others, Dr. Reisman unveils critical insights as to where our country went wrong and how we can and must repudiate the soul-and-body-destroying sexual anarchy Kinsey gave us in the name of “liberation.” In so doing, she says, we will reclaim the kind of noble moral character for our country - and ourselves  - that is truly liberating.

Learn more about the book or order yours today with a suggested donation of $30.00 or more. (288 pgs.)

 

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