Randy Thomasson has condemned passage of a law in California which bans “ex-gay” therapy to minors.

The law outlaws therapies that attempt to alter a minor's sexual orientation from gay to straight. California is the first state to enact such a law.

(Related: After California bans “ex-gay” therapy, New Jersey to consider following.)

During an appearance on The Janet Mefferd Show, Thomasson, head of the Christian conservative group Save California, railed against the measure, calling the prohibition “completely insane.”

“Let's talk about hepatitis, let's talk about HPV, let's talk about a whole host of sexually transmitted diseases, let's talk about higher cancer rates for homosexual men, let's talk about earlier deaths for homosexual men; you've got to realize the harm of children going into this lifestyle, it puts them at greater risk of all of these ills,” Thomasson said. “Again, the Democrats are saying 'no, no, no,' we want to go with our homosexual activist friends, our volunteers, our political supporters, we are going to go against religious freedom, against free speech, against the freedom to even love your own child and care for your own child, and we are going to do the Devil's work here and that exactly what's been done.”

Thomasson argued that such limitations are “dangerous for America” and accused gay rights supporters of wanting to “wipe out all the competition.”

“Look at what we have in our society, we have conflicts in society, we have disagreements in society, but do we allow those who are in power to wipe out all competition? In fact, we have rules about companies can't have a monopoly, right? The US Supreme Court has been involved in those types of rulings. But here we see that a rival, homosexual activists say 'we want to wipe out our rivals here,' look if something is controversial then you can't wipe it out, otherwise, you have to apply the same rule: let's wipe out regressive therapy, which is controversial, let's wipe out tarot card therapy, let's wipe out chiropractic care, let's wipe out vaccinations, let's wipe out chemotherapy. See you can't in a free society get rid of all controversies, you have to allow controversy and disagreement within a free society.”

“Homosexuality is not biologically based, we've never heard bisexuality or transsexuality is biological, it's obviously a chosen thing. But when you look at what has happened is it's been turned into a minority even though a minority civil rights protected class requires that there be an immutable, non-changeable, characteristic. We have thousands and thousands of former homosexuals, showing that change occurs; people get out of addictions in America when they work at it and try. Now we have this turned into a hammer upon everyone else; 'gay rights' defeats and trumps everyone else's rights who disagree and that's why it's so dangerous for America, gay rights are antithetical to a free society.”