Last Tuesday, Liberty Counsel filed a brief urging the U.S.
Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit's decision in King v. Christie, which
is Liberty Counsel's case on behalf of licensed mental health professionals who
are providing - and families who are receiving counseling to reduce or
eliminate unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors, or identities.
This court's ruling places parents and professional
counselors on the wrong side of the law. Please see my message on this
extremely important case.
The religious freedom of licensed mental health
professionals, minors, and their parents are under unprecedented assault.
Pro-homosexual activists (including, sadly, the President of the United States)
have attempted to enact laws throughout the country that would silence mental
health professionals from expressing the truth that an
individual can successfully reduce or eliminate unwanted
same-sex attractions, behaviors, or identities and live consistently with their
sincerely held religious beliefs concerning human sexuality.
These radical efforts are nothing more than an attempt to
censor any viewpoint concerning scriptural teaching on human sexuality, and
they represent one of the greatest assaults on children and families in recent
times.
Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing
and education of their children, consistent with their sincerely held religious
beliefs. Radical pro-homosexual attacks on parental rights are an affront to that
fundamental relationship and an assault on religious freedom.
Further, the arrogance of the government saying that they
know better than parents about the welfare of our children is the height of
hubris and overreach. Liberty Counsel's case could set a national precedent.
In King v. Christie, the lives and mental health of minors
in New Jersey are at stake - yet a ruling by the High Court will set a national
legal precedent for other states.
Liberty Counsel asked the Court to grant review to resolve
the divergent decisions among the circuit courts of appeal concerning the appropriate
level of scrutiny that regulations of speech between a counselor and client or
doctor and patient receive.
The state has no authority to silence only one viewpoint on same-sex
attractions, behaviors, or identity. Laws restricting what counseling a minor
can receive based solely on its content or viewpoint concerning same-sex
attractions, behaviors, or identity are simply unconstitutional and must be
struck down.
The Third Circuit's decision ran roughshod over the First
Amendment, and the Supreme Court needs to review and reverse that decision.
There are powerful forces in America that are determined to
redefine the family structure, destroy marriage, and greatly diminish parental rights.
They must be stopped!
These cases require our skilled legal team to spend hundreds
of hours and many thousands of dollars. We need your help! We must fight, and
we must win for the sake of America's children and counselors.
Liberty Counsel, Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Comments
Nobody really knows what causes people to
join the Gay subculture or want a sex-change operation. It may be the 21st
century’s version of “Saint Vitus Dance”.
But if it’s a question about who should win, I say, in a free society,
the parents should win and the government should butt-out.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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