On Monday, the California state Assembly passed ACR 99, a resolution offering several opinions about the LGBTQ community and then concluding by asking religious leaders with “moral influence” to affirm homosexuality and transgenderism. The bill throws aside religious liberty and targets religious people and organizations under the guise that failure to agree with the LGBTQ lifestyle could cause “suicide and depression,” falsely placing blame where there shouldn’t be, in addition to several other bogus ideas.
The text of the resolution includes repeated philosophical and practical statements about human sexuality: “The California State Legislature has found that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTQ) is not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency, or shortcoming,” but most of the bill outlines the aversion the state Assembly supposedly has to “conversion therapy”:
