A Bill was passed in Canada on 1 June which effectively gives the state the power to remove children from their home if their parents do not agree with LGBTQI ideology.
Bill 89, the ‘Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017’ retains the provision in current law that a child who is suffering or ‘at risk of suffering’ mental or emotional harm and whose parents do not provide ‘treatment or access to treatment’ is in need of protection under the law. Michael Coteau, Minister of Child and Family Services, who introduced the Bill, said he sees questioning teenagers’ self-identification as LGBTQI or telling them to change as abuse.
‘I would consider it a form of abuse, when a child identifies one way and a caregiver is saying no, you need to do this differently,’ he said. ‘If it’s abuse, and if it’s within the definition, a child can be removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops.’
In the USA on 2 May, a coalition of licensed therapists representing more than 20,000 health professionals filed a complaint against three of the largest gay groups in the USA challenging the ‘born gay’ narrative.
United Kingdom
In the UK, the CofE’s Synod meeting in July will see a motion put forward aiming to ban ‘conversion therapy’ for people wanting to address their same sex attraction. The aim of silencing the voices of those who experience this will however, be addressed in a documentary due to be released in the Autumn. ‘Voices of the Silenced’ will give voice to 15 people who have left behind unwanted same sex-attraction, and will highlight the goals of sexual politics and the silencing of views which oppose the return to the pansexual culture of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman world.
