In December 2021, conservative commentator Matt Walsh made an outlandish claim even by Matt Walsh standards, that Canada had "outlawed Christianity and nobody even noticed." What really happened was that Canada banned gay "conversion therapy," which is a widely discredited pseudoscience commonly called "praying the gay away" that looks at being gay as a choice and tries to guilt people into hiding their sexuality. This cruel practice has a higher link to drug abuse, alcoholism, homelessness, and suicidal tendencies than most forms of childhood abuse do. The main perpetrators are parents, who give their kids no choice in the matter except being put out on the streets.
It's no wonder why banning it is a high priority for LGBT2SQIA+ rights activists around the world. Matt Walsh claims to be a staunch supporter of Israel, among the holiest places on Earth. So, why is Walsh being so silent about the fact that, by his own standards, Israel banned Christianity, too, when they announced on Valentine's Day 2022 that doctors in the country would be banned from performing conversion therapy, building on a 2014 ban on conversion therapy in the nation's hospitals. Surely the Cradle of Christianity banning Christianity would be front-page news, right? Or maybe it's that Matt Walsh is exaggerating like anti-LGBT2SQIA+ people have always done. First, decriminalizing homosexuality was an attack on Christianity. Then, gay marriage was an attack on Christianity. Now they say banning conversion therapy is an attack on Christianity. The greatest threat to Christianity is telling an increasingly tolerant world that tolerance and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
It's not just Israel. France passed a ban in January 2022, and, like Israel, New Zealand passed a ban in February 2022. Meanwhile, bans are pending in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and numerous other nations. These bans are all on track to go into effect by the end of the year. The past three months have been the most productive in the global fight against conversion therapy in history. How's that, Matt?
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