Religion vs. LGBTQ+ rights: Supreme Court weighs 'conversion therapy' bans for minors

Brian Tingley, a family counselor in Washington, is challenging a state ban on 'conversion therapy,' claiming it violates the First Amendment.

USA TODAY
Religious freedoms cannot be used to justify discrimination because the 14th amendment added the restriction that all persons be granted the equal protection of the laws to the 1st amendment.

The #right is getting #weirder about #sex
#Cults always #police their followers' #sexlives, but the #rightwing wants to impose their #bizarre #beliefs on #everyone

As anyone who has studied #cults can tell you, they never limit their #escalations to #violence or #hateful #ideologies. There's almost always a weird #sexual #component, as #cultleaders come up with ever stranger #rules and #regulations to #control the #sexualexpression of their #followers

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/09/the-right-is-getting-weirder-about/

MAGA gets weirder and more radical with their incel-style attitudes to sex

Salon.com