A Lesbian Texan is Being Held at a Gay Conversion Camp Against Her Will

[MaxQue]

Hopefully her parents will be sued until vagrancy.

[MaxQue]

I now see that she is released - thank goodness. The situation perhaps not as bad as initially reported but seriously, what disastrous, unfit parents

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/christian_boarding_school_denies_it_practices_ex_gay_therapy_says_jeremy_jordan_s_cousin_no_longer_there

Can we please not call people "unfit parents" without solid evidence?

Not a term I like to use, but according to that article, the father and priest explicitly tried to change sexual orientation even aside from this camp. That's completely unacceptable if true even if the school's not bad, which it very well may be.

It's just shua being shua.

unless you have a useful comment, f**k off.

I'm pretty sure if forum would held a vote on whether to get rid of you or Afleitch, they would vote to get rid of you, by an huge margin.

He contributes things, unlike you, which is always the same "think of the feelings of religious people" act all the time. So, if someone should leave, it should be you Shua. We are tired of your act.

[MaxQue]

It sounds more to be in the nature of a criminal case, than a civil one. The local DA should be contacted. But then, it's Texas, and well, the DA's there in many places, might not be interested in pursuing it.

How do you figure?  Plenty of high schoolers have been shipped away to military school against their wishes because their parents don't like their behavior.

And once a minor is entrusted to your care you can't just let them leave the facility whenever they want.  If something happens to them the parasitic lawyers will show up with a $1 million lawsuit.

It's why emancipation of minors exists. To free teenagers from terrible parents.

[MaxQue]

It sounds more to be in the nature of a criminal case, than a civil one. The local DA should be contacted. But then, it's Texas, and well, the DA's there in many places, might not be interested in pursuing it.

How do you figure?  Plenty of high schoolers have been shipped away to military school against their wishes because their parents don't like their behavior.

And once a minor is entrusted to your care you can't just let them leave the facility whenever they want.  If something happens to them the parasitic lawyers will show up with a $1 million lawsuit.

It's why emancipation of minors exists. To free teenagers from terrible parents.

I don't know what all went on but what I read in the original article posted in this thread didn't indicate to me at all that they were "terrible parents".  Honestly this looks more like the breakdown of the traditional family structure.  I had major disagreements with my parents at times.  Sometimes they were right sometimes I felt I was right but at 17 I could either talk to them or just keep my mouth shut for a few months until I was 18 and could do whatever I wanted to do.

And that's the issue. Starting at 14, some legal rights should be moved, gradually, from the parent, to the teenager. Current law assume the parents have a clue what they are doing, adn they often don't. A teenager isn't a furniture belonging to their parents.

Here, in Quebec, parents cannot force a medical treatment on teenagers after 14. Medical majority is 14, as it's considered mature enough to know if they want a treatment or not.

[MaxQue]

It sounds more to be in the nature of a criminal case, than a civil one. The local DA should be contacted. But then, it's Texas, and well, the DA's there in many places, might not be interested in pursuing it.

How do you figure?  Plenty of high schoolers have been shipped away to military school against their wishes because their parents don't like their behavior.

And once a minor is entrusted to your care you can't just let them leave the facility whenever they want.  If something happens to them the parasitic lawyers will show up with a $1 million lawsuit.

It's why emancipation of minors exists. To free teenagers from terrible parents.

I don't know what all went on but what I read in the original article posted in this thread didn't indicate to me at all that they were "terrible parents".  Honestly this looks more like the breakdown of the traditional family structure.  I had major disagreements with my parents at times.  Sometimes they were right sometimes I felt I was right but at 17 I could either talk to them or just keep my mouth shut for a few months until I was 18 and could do whatever I wanted to do.

And that's the issue. Starting at 14, some legal rights should be moved, gradually, from the parent, to the teenager. Current law assume the parents have a clue what they are doing, adn they often don't. A teenager isn't a furniture belonging to their parents.

Here, in Quebec, parents cannot force a medical treatment on teenagers after 14. Medical majority is 14, as it's considered mature enough to know if they want a treatment or not.

You know that is not true... or at least you know that is a very simplistic and skewed representation of the situation in Quebec.  A 15 year old can't just go out and get a boob job without their parent's permission.  Canada is a civilized and rational country.  They are not going to hand all the decision making power to one party while saddling another party with all the responsibility if things go wrong.  And also I've never met a doctor who would pick up a scalpel and do major surgery on the say so of a 14 year old.  Even if it was legal ethics would prohibit it.  I haven't been everywhere but that would be very bizarre in the few places I have been.

Bottom line is parents aren't always right but they are right way more than 14 year olds are.  In extreme cases emancipation is available.  But really that is not applicable in this case because this "child" is mere months away from being 18 and able to do whatever she wants.  The question I'm left asking is why didn't she just chill for a few months?  I mean with all the persecution and suffering in the world today is it really that hard to wait a few months before posting something on twitter defying your parents?  Again, parent's and daughter need to learn to communicate and be rational.

Legally, it is very true. It's also banned to do cosmetic surgery on minors expect for reconstructive purposes. I'm aware, I was 15, and the doctor plainly said to my mother, he is over 14, so you can advice him, but he is the only with the legal power to decide and he can go over any of your objections.

[MaxQue]

Well, I'm telling what the doctor said.

In any case, action is needed to protect LGBT teens from their parents. Or you would prefer her becoming yet another homeless LGBT teen kicked from her own house?