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.”