[Lnc-business] EMAIL BALLOT 190419-1 Opposition to Conversion Therapy Resolution

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

We have an electronic mail ballot.

Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by April 26, 2019 at 11:59:59 pm
Pacific time.

Co-Sponsors:  Harlos, Longstreth, Merced, O'Donnell, Phillips


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Resolution:

WHEREAS, the Libertarian Party asserts that all individuals have the right
to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live
in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere
with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose;

WHEREAS, although children have not reached sufficient maturity to be the
full custodian of their rights which are temporarily entrusted to their
parents or guardians, their rights to bodily integrity and intimate
personal identification, are inalienable and coerced action that would
fundamentally deny these rights is abusive;

WHEREAS, parents, or other guardians, have the right to raise
their children according to their own standards and beliefs, provided that
the rights of children to be free from abuse and neglect are also protected;

WHEREAS, conversion therapy has been used in the past as a form of
punishment for homosexuality and gender identity which does not conform to
traditional expectations; and the rights to gender and sexual identity are
fundamental rights;

WHEREAS, this conversion therapy has it's roots in unethical treatment used
since the 70's in issues such as drug use, psychiatric disorders, and
learning disabilities, that describe humiliation, sleep deprivation, sexual
abuse, starvation, and isolation as "treatment techniques";

WHEREAS, children are often subjected to this type of therapy against their
will, even by loving and well-intentioned parents who are unaware that the
methods used in conversion therapy are extremely forceful and abusive, and
that any therapy similar to this has been shown to result in
suicide attempts by 20% of these patients: a five-fold increase in the risk
of suicide attempts compared to other teens;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that therapy modeled off these abusive
institutions, protected and/or funded by the State, constitutes consumer
fraud and forceful abuse, which the Libertarian Party opposes, and we
oppose all laws allowing such.

FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, the Libertarian Party opposes subjecting unwilling
participants through force or coercion, especially children, to any therapy
that violates the non-aggression principle through any method that would be
considered abuse or torture.

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