California now Certifies LGBT Businesses

California now requires utility companies to buy products and services from women, minority, and LGBT companies:

This scheme raises an obvious question: How does a business qualify as officially gay? Paperwork. Supplier Clearinghouse, a group that certifies firms for the CPUC program, features a list of qualifications linked on its website. Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.

It is hard to see how an LGBT company would be certified, or how any certification would be proven wrong.

Gay Animal Sex Documentary

Story from a couple of months ago:

Trans Actor Elliot Page Hopes Her Gay Animal Sex Documentary Helps Children Come Out of the Closet

Elliot Page is reportedly narrating a new documentary examining same-sex interactions and so-called “gender fluidity” within the animal world. The transgender actor says she hopes the film exploring gay animal sex, Second Nature, will make queer kids feel less alone.

Ellen Page is rumored to be playing a man in The Odyssey (2026 film). Several other odd casting choices are rumored. I am waiting to see if the movie is really that silly. It might just be marketing hype.

This whole subject of gay animal sex is grossly exaggerated. I am not sure that there are any legitimate examples of it, or any that have any relevance to humans.

The Decline of the Pride Flag

News:

On April 9, 2026, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed House Joint Resolution 182, officially designating June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state. Lee signed House Joint Resolution 182, which passed the House in April 2025 and the Senate last month, on April 9.

It is a departure from the national recognition of June as Pride Month.

The pushback against Pride displays is taking place across the country.

The woke Mayor of Boise, Idaho, Lauren McLean (D), was finally forced to remove the rainbow LGBT “pride” flag from its City Hall following implementation of a new flag law.

Multiple states, including Florida, Texas, and Alabama, have passed or proposed restrictions on Pride events in public schools, government buildings, or taxpayer-funded spaces.

In 2023, Target began removing some LGBTQ+ merchandise from its Pride Month collection amid nationwide backlash.

Cracker Barrel removed its Pride page, which listed the Nashville Pride Parade it sponsored. The page’s website link now redirects to Cracker Barrel’s “Culture and Belonging” site.

In 2025, Anheuser-Busch, the brewing company known for brands like Bud Light and Budweiser, ended its sponsorship of San Francisco Pride following the beer giant’s loss of over $27 billion in market value in 2023 after partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and becoming the target of a conservative boycott.

Pride flags are still all over California schools and public buildings.

The Invention of Gender Dysphoria

The term "gender dysphoria" was coined in 1973 by psychiatrist Norman M. Fisk. If you go back a century or more, there is no record of anyone with gender dysphoria. Here is the timeline:

1973: Fisk proposed "gender dysphoria" (sometimes called "gender dysphoria syndrome") to describe the distress from incongruence between one's experienced gender and biological sex. This was in the context of early work on transsexualism by figures like Harry Benjamin (who treated patients in the 1950s–1960s).

1979: The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (later WPATH) used the term in its first Standards of Care.

1980: DSM-III introduced "gender identity disorder" (and "transsexualism") as official psychiatric diagnoses, not "gender dysphoria." Earlier DSM editions (1952, 1968) had no equivalent.

2013: DSM-5 replaced "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" to reduce stigma while keeping it as a diagnosable condition focused on distress (not identity itself). It was moved out of sexual disorders into its own category.

The whole point to the term is to get insurance and welfare agencies to pay for it.

Canada Eskimos Join Alphabet People

Newsweek reports:

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym used primarily in Canada. ...

The acronym stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by some First Nations to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people. ...

The full acronym has been used for years in government, advocacy, and community contexts to emphasize intersectionality. It is intentionally lengthy in order to name everyone who has historically been left out of national conversations about violence, justice, and safety.

No, it is lengthy to emphasize that it is excluding straight White men.

See also this video, which complains about people mocking the term and taking it "out of context".

Medical Societies Flip on Transgenderism

I have posted many times on how the major medical organizations have been corrupted, especially on political and LGBTQIA issues.

Now a NY Times op-ed announces:

As GLAAD puts it on its website, “Every major medical association supports health care for transgender people and youth as safe and lifesaving.” But something confounding has happened in the last few weeks: Cracks have appeared in the supposed wall of consensus. ...

The next day, the American Medical Association — which has long approved of such procedures — announced that “in the absence of clear evidence, the A.M.A. agrees with A.S.P.S. that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.” ...

The documents, separated by about a year and a half (and, perhaps as significantly, one presidential election), straightforwardly contradict each other. The A.P.A. in 2024 argued that there is a “comprehensive body of psychological and medical research supporting the positive impact of gender-affirming treatments” for individuals “across the life span.” But in 2025, the group argued that “psychologists do not make broad claims about treatment effectiveness.”

What changed? Was there new evidence?

No, the biggest change was the election of Donald Trump.

There were a lot of complaints about the President's State of the Union address. But the Trump 47 Presidency has been a return to sanity. Someday people will wonder about how the world went so crazy about transgenderism and other issues.

Update: The NY Times reports that the world's most wanted criminal was captured and killed in Mexico, largely as a result of Trump administration intelligence and pressure.

The Preference will not get to Zero

I mentioned the stupid anti-hockey hbo tv show. NY Times op-ed:

The remarkable success of “Heated Rivalry,” the steamy new television series about closeted gay hockey players, has been widely taken as yet another sign of social progress — evidence that acceptance of queer love continues to grow. We wish we could share that optimism. Unfortunately, new research that one of us, Professor Charlesworth, helped conduct reveals a darker truth: The decades-long rise in the acceptance of gay people in the United States peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then. The popularity of “Heated Rivalry,” it seems, is a welcome burst of enthusiasm for gay life in a new era of anti-gay prejudice. ...

Last June, in an episode about the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain,” which depicts a love affair between two cowboys, Professor Finkel cited Professor Charlesworth’s 2022 research to make a hopeful point: “There is still a slight preference for straightness over gayness, but it is getting very close to zero.”

The complaint is that the preference never got to zero.

Someday the present period will be seen as a strange mass psychosis. Homosexuals are maybe 2% of the population. Those interested in watching a homosexual romance is much lower than that. And some people seem to think that you must want to see it, if you are liberal-minded.

Democrats have gotten control of Virginia:

Virginia Democrats want to teach schoolchildren to “affirm” gay and “transgender” propaganda as part of their new “inclusive history” proposal.

A bill proposal from Democrat Del. Sam Rasoul would require history and social studies courses taught at public schools would be required to push the “contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities; immigrants and refugees; women; individuals with disabilities; individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+); individuals from various socioeconomic statuses; individuals from various religious backgrounds; and any other group of individuals that the Board of Education deems appropriate.”

The Latest Garbage on Streaming TV

There is a bidding war for the studio that owns HBO tv, whose hot property is this:

Reid is the Canadian writer of the Game Changers book series and other hockey-themed gay romance novels. She said in 2023, "Game Changer came from a place of me being angry at hockey culture and how clearly homophobic it was and is, and all the other things that made me really ashamed to be a hockey fan. That whole series attacks the NHL and hockey culture quite a bit."

A 2025 television series, Heated Rivalry, was adapted from the first and second books in the Game Changers series.

From her pictures, it is unlikely that she ever played hockey. Her bio says she has two kids, but says nothing about a husband.

From the reviews, the books and shows are pornographic and have lots of homosexuality. They are marketed as romance novels, but they do not have much romance. Mainly it is a way for her to express her anger at hockey culture.

I am just posting this to warn anything who might think this tv series is a good hockey story.

Not Born That Way

New video:

Tucker Carlson Network

Tucker and Piers Morgan have a heated debate on whether or not people are born gay.

Neither of them are scientists, so it is not much of a debate.

I wonder how Morgan can be so sure that people are born gay, while there is no gay gene. And there are statistical variations that are hard to reconcile with people being born gay.

Somehow respectable people have been trained to say that, even though it does not even make any sense.

I am sure he would be a lot less eager to say that people are born criminal, or low IQ, or even male.

Free Speech Right to Align Identity to Sex

The US Supreme Court just heard oral argument on Chiles v. Salazar

Chiles v. Salazar, Docket No. 24-539, is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of Colorado's Minor Conversion Therapy Law (MCTL), which bans conversion therapy for minors by licensed mental health professionals. The ban was challenged on violating the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, though the state had constrained the ban to licensed professionals and only as with respect to their professional duties. The ban was upheld in lower courts.

Many briefs are posted.

Here is the argument against the law:

This law harms gender dysphoric kids 1:40:41 because the statistics that we've cited in our verified complaint as well as in 1:40:46 the uh brief that we cited with this court indicate that 90% of young people who are struggling with gender dysphoria 1:40:53 before puberty work their way through it and realign their identity with their sex. But if one of those children go to 1:41:00 a counselor and they specifically say that is the help I want realigning my identity with their sex, they cannot 1:41:07 receive that help from someone like my client. Moreover, if they're continuing 1:41:12 down the path of transition, then unfortunately they get locked into that path and eventually it leads over 90% of 1:41:21 the time once they start down the path of social transition. It will lead to the route of medicalized transition 1:41:27 which the Cass report tells us comes with a lot of harm and devastation.

Conversion therapy applies to homosexuality, and has become more controversial when it is applied to transgender identity. About half the states have similar laws, so a psychotherapist can counsel a patient to go homosexual, but not to go straight.

I am struck by all the bogus language in this case.

The argument in favor of the law is that there is a "medical consensus" on the "standard of care" that "conversion therapy" is not supported by "evidence-based practice". The therapy is "ineffective" and "potentially harmful". Changing sexual preferences is impossible because they are "innate" and "immutable". Homosexuality and transgenderism have been determined to be not pathological, so there can be no legitimate treatment to change them. Any such effort is harmful because, among other things, it can cause "family alienation". No reputable medical society or expert testimonty supports such therapy.

This is all so crazy I don't know where to stert. All psychotherapies are ineffective and potentially harmful. Say you go to a shrink or any other medical professional because you are obese and want advice getting to a healthier weight. The vast majority of people getting such advice do not lose weight. That means the advice is ineffective. Many patients get angry or depressed or develop other unhealthy habits. That means the advice is potentially harmful.

The easy way out for the therapist is the affirm the fatness, and tell the patient to stay fat. Perhaps the studies would categorize such therapy as more successful, because the patient is happier in the short term, by avoid the struggle to lose weight.

All the medical societies need to do is the announce that fatness is not pathological. Maybe also that it is innate and immutable.

This might seem like an artificial example, but it is not. People see psychotherapy for all sorts of problems, including depression, alcoholism, and personality disorders. All of these are heritable, and cannot be changed without a lot of hard work. Most psychotherapy does not work. Some people do change, with help and motivation.

Our medical societies have been corrupted to where they refuse to help kids who need help. Saying that there is a consensus is just proof of how the system has been politicized. The field of Psychology hardly ever has a consensus on anything. For something as controversial as transgenderism, a healthy profession would have a diversity of opinions on what to do about it. Maybe they would accept scientific evidence, but there is no proof that affirming transgenderism has ever benefited anyone.

I think the Supreme Court ducked the issue of conversion therapy for homosexuals, but required licensed psychotherapists to tell small kids to change gender identity is too much. I expect the Colorado law to be struck down. Such laws should have been struck down ten years ago.

Update: The strange thing is that the whole idea of conversion therapy harm is that it can be frustrating to change what you really are. But the approved transgender affirmation therapy does exactly that.

Supreme Court to reverse Same-sex Marriage

Axios reports:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted that the Supreme Court will "do to gay marriage what they did to abortion" and send it back to states to decide.

That is not likely anytime soon. But in the long run, having the Supreme Court interfere in marriage law in this way is indefensible.

Marriage has had a crucial role in the development of civilization for thousands of years. When the Court mandated same-sex marriage in 2015, it ignored this, and reasoned instead about applying Civil War Reconstruction laws to getting a copy of an out-of-state AIDS-related death certificate. That got extrapolated to everyone, without considering what it would do to civilization.

You might say that the decision has been widely accepted, and it expressly gave dignity to personal choices and beliefs. Who could be against that?

Maybe, but I am not so sure.

The Democrat War on Men

Ann Coulter writes:

The only really surprising thing about last year's election is that Trump won white men under 20, with about 75% -- the highest percentage of any demographic by race and age. Gen Z and millennial white men were practically pikers compared to the 18- and 19-year-olds, giving Trump a mere 67% of their vote. ...

Within a few years of its founding in 1910, the Scouts realized they needed to keep a sharp eye out for sexual abusers and began compiling a confidential list of “ineligible volunteers," called the "Perversion Files." As the expression goes, "Not all gays who want to go camping alone in the woods with young boys are child molesters, but all child molesters would like to go camping alone in the woods with young boys."

It seems to have worked. Nearly two-thirds of NASA's career astronauts were Scouts, and 41 were Eagle Scouts, including Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 8 and 13, who died at 97 only this month. Among the other massively accomplished Eagle Scouts are Hank Aaron, Gerald Ford, Steven Breyer, Sam Walton, Stephen Bechtel, Bill Marriott, Michael Jordan and Steven Spielberg.

What do the Boy Scouts and Catholic Church have in common?

Both did whatever they could, legally, to protect boys from child molesters.

Yes, this meant keeping secret lists of suspected homosexuals. For this they were hated by the Woke Ctrl Left.

The Times’ “ethicist,” Randy Cohen, advised a reader to pull her son out of the Cub Scouts, saying it was “the ethical thing to do" -- at least until gay activists were allowed to go on camping trips with young boys. ...

Indeed, that hated word was entirely extirpated from the group’s name, and it was rechristened “Scouts USA.” Girl members and gay Scoutmasters were the order of the day.

One can only imagine the glee in the newsroom when, two years later, the Times could run this headline: “Boy Scouts Seek Bankruptcy To Survive a Deluge of Sex-Abuse Claims.” But, this week, the same paper innocently published an essay on the importance of Scouting to young men.

My local Boy Scouts is mostly girls now.

Gay Rights Movement Lost Its Way

Gay rights activist Andrew Sullivan wrote a NY times op-ed:

But in America, on, this anniversary of the Obergefell decision, we also need to remember a critical thing: We won. We won because we defended free speech, reached out to right and left and center, left others and children alone — and trusted liberal democracy. That trust was rewarded with one of the swiftest successes in civil rights history. Let’s not throw it away.

He explains that the LGBTQ movement is increasingly radicalized. You buy into their whole agenda, or they demonize and destroy you.

That agenda now includes an assortment of Leftist, anti-American, anti-White, anti-Family, etc. causes. They subscribe to a theory that all these freaky causes should stick together, whether they have anything in common or not.

Even worse, they have focused on grooming and corrupting children. They are constantly pushing parades, drag shows, childrens books, and other indoctrination of kids.

It is almost as if evil powers have decided to identify children who are likely to grow up homosexual, convince them to be transgender, and castrate them.

As much as the LGBTQ activists complain about conversion therapy and push gender affiruming therapy, there are gays like Sullivan who believe that the gender affirming therapy is much worse than the conversion therapy. The conversion therapy just tries to get people to live a normal life. The gender affirming therapy singles out sissy boys, and tries to convince them to cut their genitals off.

Here is an example of LGBTQ intolerance.

Atlanta police said Tuesday that three men and a juvenile could face hate crimes charges after they pulled down LGBTQ+ pride flags and cut them up at an intersection known as the center of the city's LGBTQ+ community. ...

Police said they have also cited the 16-year-old's father for failing to supervise his son.

A prosecutor would have to decide whether to ask a judge or jury to add additional penalties to any conviction. Georgia's hate crime law, passed in 2020, allows a court to impose additional prison time or fines when a judge or jury finds that a crime was motivated by the victim's race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

There is a free speech right to burn American flags, but burning a $10 pride flag brings stiff prosecutions, including to a parent! This was not motivated by the victim's characteristics, as the victim is a $10 piece of cloth.

Maryland Schools Grooming their Kids

The US Supreme Court is about to rule on a public school dispute in Maryland:

One of the “storybooks” about which the parents are complaining is called Pride Puppy and is typical of the six books advancing the LGBTQ+ cultural agenda. This book is said to be for children three to five years old. In Pride Puppy, parents bring their children, including the family puppy, to a gay pride parade. The puppy gets lost and is later reunited with his family. The illustrations show the participants in the parade, along with rainbow signage, dress, and flags.

Pride Puppy purports to be helping preschoolers learn the alphabet. One of the key pages contains an activity called “Search and Find Word List.” The children are prompted to look for images in the pride parade that begin with certain letters of the alphabet. Some of the words in the lists are innocuous. However, one finds, for example, that under the letter “Q” there are only two choices and one of them is [drag] Queen. The same is true for “K” where we find [drag] King. (The brackets appear in the book.)

One of the choices in the list of “M” words is the name of a person whose picture and name appear on a placard held by a parade participant. It bears the name “Marsha P. Johnson.” Johnson was “a self-identified drag queen and prominent gay liberation activist who co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.” Since she had “difficulty finding employment she turned to sex work.” That is only one of the six books.

To make matters worse, the school board proposed various responses for teachers to use in dealing with questions in class from students. Here is just one: Suppose a student asks what “transgender” means?  Here is the suggested response from the board: “When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender and label us boy or girl based on body parts. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes wrong. Body parts do not decide our gender. Our gender comes from our insides.”

The court is probably only going to find that religious parents have a right to be notified about this curriculum, and maybe to opt out.

I will look to see if any of the justices detail what is really wrong here. This is a story about perverts using mandatory public school to groom small children into LGBTQ. A kindergarten story about a child losing and finding a puppy at a Gay Pride Parade? This is textbook example of psychological manipulation. No one should be allowed to manipuate schoolkids in this way.

Ask yourself: Why are schools doing this? Why are they so adamant that this must be done without the parents knowledge? Why are they litigating this all the way to the US Supreme Court?

The only answer is grooming and indoctrination of small schoolkids into the LGBTQ lifestyle.

Update: Here is the decision. 6-3 against the forced LGBTQ indoctrination. A dissent appendix has a bunch of pages from one of the sick books. See for yourself.

The Argument for the Colorado LGBTQ Law

I mentioned that under Colorado law, if a child is confused or questioning about sexual orientation or identity, psychotherapy must push the child towards LGBTQ, while encouraging normal behavior is illegal. You might wonder who could defend such a law.

More than 20 states have similar laws, and courts have upheld them. Here is the brief defending the Colorado law, and it claims that all of the science and expert opinion is on its side:

As the record makes clear, the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy is an unsafe and in- effective treatment.

That conversion therapy inflicts harm has been confirmed by at least twelve research studies, four sys- tematic reviews of that research, and two independent evaluations of conversion therapy and the attendant research. D. Colo. Decl. of Dr. Judith Glassgold, Dkt. No. 45-1 (“Decl.”), ¶ 14. Conversion therapy’s docu- mented harms include depression, anxiety, loss of sex- ual feeling, negative self-esteem, negative changes in family relationships, loss of faith, and suicidality. Decl. ¶¶ 65-68, 72-84 (citing studies). A cross-sectional survey of over 27,000 transgender adults found that exposure to conversion therapy at any time in a transgender person’s life was associated with adverse mental health outcomes in adulthood that included se- vere psychological distress, suicidal thoughts, and su- icide attempts. Id. ¶ 78. The studies of adults who underwent voluntary conversion therapy also found that they experienced harms including shame, a loss of faith in religious institutions, and suicidal thoughts. Id. ¶¶ 70-71, 83 (citing studies).

In short, “[s]tudies dating across two decades have evaluated [conversion therapy] and identified it as a potentially harmful treatment.” Decl. ¶ 61. A sys- tematic review of this evidence led the American Psy- chiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and other professional health care provid- ers’ associations to recommend against the use of con- version therapy due to the evidence that it harms young people. Id. ¶ 19. Nothing in the Cass Review— cited for the first time in the Petition, see Pet. 3-4, 8-9, 282—challenges the evidence on conversion therapy’s harmful effects. Indeed, that Review states that “no LGBTQ+ group should be subjected to conversion practice,” Cass Review at 150 § 11.5, and observes that “[n]o formal science-based training in psychotherapy, psychology or psychiatry teaches or advocates conver- sion therapy.” Id. at 151 § 11.7. It advocates the ap- proach taken by the MCTL: “If an individual were to carry out such practices they would be acting outside of professional guidance, and this would be a matter for the relevant regulator.” Cass Review at 151 § 11.7.

I post this so that you can get both sides, but also so you can see how overwhelmingly corrupted the psychiatric establishment is. You could tell a confused child to try to go straight, and all the experts say not to do it.

The way it is written, it sounds as if the case for the law is overwhelming, but look closely, and it is all bogus. It cites a "survey of over 27,000 transgender adults" as if that is scientific. It is not. Any real study would have control groups, and look at treatment outcomes. They were calling people who rejected advice, and asking if the advice was bad.

It says treatments were associated with harms. That could be said about most medical treatments. Have you ever looked at the list of possible harmful effects of common prescription drugs? The above says nothing about whether the benefits outweigh the harms.

Nevertheless it is worth pointing out that the major psychiatric and psychological associations are fully on board with this Colorado law. Every parent who considered taking a child to psychotherapy should know that. That therapist is likely to believe in an ethical obligation to push the child to being LGBTQ, and believe that it is unethical to encourage the child to live a normal life.

Science does not support LGBTQ Counseling Policies

I asked an AI LLM about the Colorado MCTL, and it defended the law as being grounded in scientific evidence about the prevention of harm.

It admitted:

Asymmetry in Counseling: The law creates an asymmetry: therapists can support a minor exploring or adopting an LGBTQ identity but cannot counsel them toward a heterosexual or cisgender identity if it involves trying to change their current orientation or identity. This reflects the law’s grounding in the medical consensus that conversion therapy is harmful, whereas affirming care is not. ...

Under the MCTL, if a minor is confused about their sexual orientation or gender identity, a therapist can affirm or support an LGBTQ identity if it aligns with the minor’s exploration, but they cannot counsel the minor to be straight or cisgender if it involves attempting to change their orientation or identity.

When I pressed it for the evidence, it admitted that there are no randomized clinical trial, or similarly rigorous studies. The studies cites by the authorities are mostly surveys of teenagers who already identify as LBGTQ, and asking them if they prefer therapy that affirms their beliefs or asks them to change. And yes, they are happier being told that what they already believe is good.

There are several things wrong with this. First, if Colorado is going to pass laws intruding on psychotherapy free speech in a way that has never been done before, there ought to be good evidence. Even if Colorado considers such as study unethical, as it argued in court, it ought to be able to use studies from somewhere else where it would be ethical.

Even if these studies are valid, they tell us nothing about how to counsel the confused or questioning teenager. This law requires the therapist to push the kids into being LGBTQ, when that may not be what he wants at all.

Third, kids do not necessarily know what is good for them. The same arguments would say that fat teenagers should be counseled to affirm their fatness, and be happy about it. Surveying them might well find that they prefer being told it is good to be fat. However it would be incorrect to deduce that teenage health is promoted by affirming fatness.

Fourth, there is really something sick and perverted about adults passing laws mandating children to receive pro-LGBTQ counseling. It is called grooming kids to be molested. Some also pass laws requiring pro-LGBTQ pornography to be available to kids in school and public libracies. Some force drag shows and pride parades for children. Many schools are now required to have pro-LGBTQ programs, classes, and symbols. Some even conceal this from parents.

Everyday I see stories about how Jeffrey Epstein and Puff Diddy were the epitome of evil for sex trafficking. The evidence seems weak to me. But the Colorado legislature is openly and brazenly conducting its own form of sex trafficking.

You might say that these lawmakers and others are just following expert opinion on what is good for the kids. Do you believe that? Why? It is against common sense, against scientific studies, and against moral views that have prevailed for centuries. Believing these supposed experts is about like following witchcraft or voodoo.

There are many court briefs against the Colorado law, and they make many good arguments, but I did not see any arguing the points 2-4 above. Some did argue that lack of good studies.

Court to Rule on Pro-LGBTQ Psychotherapy

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of this decision upholding a Colorado law, and briefs are going online. Wikipedia explains:

Colorado's Minor Conversion Therapy Law (MCTL), passed in 2019, prohibits licensed mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with clients under 18 with an exemption for therapists "engaged in the practice of religious ministry". Conversion therapy refers to practices aiming to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. Over 20 states have similar laws which are supported by major medical organizations.[2][1] The Supreme Court has turned down earlier cases challenging state bans on conversion therapy.[2]

So if a minor seeks advice about his/her sexual identity, the Colorado psychotherapist can push the child into being LGBTQ, but cannot help him/her be normal or straight.

I am expecting the Supreme Court to overturn this crazy Leftist law. If not, I expect Republican states to start passing laws saying that licensed psychotherapists must treat LGBTQ patients as having a disorder where the cure is to go straight.

The lower court said, 2-1, that the law is consistent is the policies of major psychological organizations and:

We thus have no trouble concluding the MCTL is rationally related to Colorado’s interest in protecting minor patients seeking mental health care from obtaining ineffective and harmful therapeutic modalities.

But most psychotherapy is effective and harmful. If that were the standard, it would all be abolished.

The backers of this law say that a scientific consensus is in their favor, but when asked for scientific studies, they say that would be unethical!

The dissent says:

Science has enjoyed tremendous respect because of the great advances it has made since the beginning of the scientific revolution. But it has not made those advances by respecting “authority.” To give just one illustration, although Albert Einstein is widely recognized as the greatest of physicists, virtually all theoretical physicists, then and now, have rejected his views of the nature of quantum mechanics. ...

the briefs of appellees and several amici emphasize the official positions taken by national professional organizations. But I have no idea of the process by which those positions were arrived at or who actually made the decisions, and it really does not matter unless they are based on persuasive evidence. Consensus is irrelevant to science. A book by one great physicist reports a comment by an even greater one that makes the point: “When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, [Einstein] retorted, ‘If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!’” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time 193 (1996).

The Left and the Democrat Party today is obsessed with pushing LGBTQ ideology on underage children. I believe that the purpose is grooming children for abuse by adults.

What other explanation is there? Colorado is literally using state-licensed pyschotherapists to counsel children to engage in perverted sexual acts or be transgender. And trying to carve an exception to First Amendment free speech in order to prevent those children from learning the truth.

Pride Month for Straights

The last minute is an ad. I think. Or some joke that I did not get.

Not All Accept Same-sex Marriage

Everyone assumed that same-sex marriage had become accepted in the USA. No, it has become a partisan issue again.

The Daily Signal reports:

A new poll is showing that support for same-sex marriage has dropped to a 10-year low among Republicans but spiked to a record high among Democrats. ...

Gallup reports that support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has fallen to 41%, down from an all-time high of 55% in 2021 and 2022 and the lowest point since May of 2016, when support stood at 40%. ...

Despite statistics on support for same-sex marriage, fewer Americans of all political stripes consider same-sex relationships morally acceptable. According to Gallup, only 38% of Republicans consider same-sex relationships morally acceptable, compared to 69% of independent voters and 86% among Democrats.

The decline in the perceived moral acceptability of same-sex relationships has been pronounced among Republicans.

Worldwide it is legal in most of Western Europe and the Western Hemisphere, but not Asia and Africa. This month has a lot Pride parades, but interest is declining, and it was canceled in Idaho.

All of the major religions still oppose same-sex marriage, including Islam, the major Christian denominations, Judaism, and Hinduism.

Most people answer the same when asked about the morality of same-sex relationships, and the legality of same-sex marriage. Somewhat more favor legality than moral acceptability. So some say that marriage should be allowed, even though the relationship is immoral. One could also thing the reverse -- that the relationships are moral, but not to be endorsed by government marriage.

Free Puff, and Greenwald Blames Trump

Journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted to Jason Whitlock:

Serious thoughtful question: how have you been able to separate what you regard as Donald Trump's inspired and noble political leadership from the repeated behaviors in his private life long considered deeply immoral and degenerate under the most widespread and long-standing Christian and Western moral dogma:

Overlapping affairs and marriages, serial adulteries, affairs with porn stars that he paid to cover up, closely cavorting with Jeffrey Epstein after he was publicly convicted of sex trafficking of minors, boasting of "grabbing womens' pussies" without asking, and I could go on and on. We'll leave to the side the multiple allegations of sexual assault from various women to whom he wasn't married even though one was repeatedly upheld in a court.

For his whole adult live, Trump lived the life of a libertine Manhattan billionaire, not even close to a paragon of sexual moral virtue.

One of the things I've always liked about Trump is he never purported to be a moralist because he knew his life didn't permit that pretense and it wasn't something he pretended to value, Nor -- as his many close libertine friends demonstrate, or, say, his choice of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General this demonstrates -- was it something he used to judge the moral worth of others.

Trump obviously didn't care to align his private behavior with the moral judgments of others: only with his own codes about right and wrong.

Greenwald is deflecting attention from a recently leaks homosexual sex tape.

His accusations against Trump are completely false, and he knows better. He tries to imply that Trump cooperated in the sex-trafficking of minors. Not true. He falsely describes the famous Access Hollywood comedy routine. There were no affairs with porn stars. All we know is that his fixer paid off a blackmailer.

There was an allegation upheld in court in a civil case, but that was so ridiculous that it is nearly impossible to believe.

It is weird that Greenwald would compare himself to Trump in this way. There are no videos of Trump doing anything immoral. Some Trump allegations would be illegal if true. Did Greenwald do anything illegal? He is sensitive about adopting a couple of kids with a Brazilian partner who is now dead. Not sure what that is all about.

Other sex scandals in the news are the retrial of Harvey Weinstein, and trial of Puff Diddy, aka Sean Combs. I haven't followed these trials, but I am waiting for the smoking gun. The defendants may be scum, but the charges are ridiculous. Diddy's chief accuser is Cassie Ventura who had a long-term affair with him from 2007 to 2018. She sued him in 2023, and obtained a $20 million settlement. So what is the issue now?

Another complaint says Diddy behaved inappropriately at a 1997 party.

Here is the latest witness, apparently allowed to testify anonymously:

NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs who says he raped her testified Monday that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was “brainwashed.”

The woman, testifying for a third day under the pseudonym “Mia” at the music mogul’s federal sex trafficking trial, ...

In an Aug. 29, 2020, message to Combs, Mia recalled happy highlights from her eight years working for him — such as drinking champagne at the Eiffel Tower at 4 a.m. and rejecting Mick Jagger’s offer to take her home — saying she remembered only “the good times.”

I am expecting a prosecution expert to testify that it is completely normal for rape victims to send years of loving messages to their rapists. He will say the messages prove the brainwashing worked.

With both Weinstein and Diddy have attracted lawyers digging up dozens of gripes from decades in the past, and looking to collect legal settlement. No single complaint is provable, but the argument is that there are a lot of complaints and the defendant has deep pockets, so he should pay.

That was also the issue with Trump. The porn star figured that Trump had deep pockets, and he would have to pay off to avoid publicity, whether the allegation is true or false.