Another Episode of "Liars for Jesus"

You may have read that California is on the verge of banning "conversion therapy" (formally, "Sexual Orientation Change Efforts," or SOCE) as a deceptive business practice. Needless to say, "Christians" are up in arms.

A.B. 2943 extends the ban on the practice of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) to all persons, not just minors, by adding the the words “advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual” to the "existing list of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices," according to the bill's official summary.

That seems fairly straightforward -- and long overdue.

Oh, but wait:

But try telling that to California State Assembly member Travis Allen, a Republican who just happens to be running for governor, or the far right wing news network OANN, whose host offered this intro on Thursday:

"This is essentially criminalizing religious beliefs," Liz Wheeler said, falsely. "I don’t mean to speak in hyperbole here, but if this bill were to pass, would this prohibit the sale of the Bible, that teaches these things about sexual morality?"

No, Ms. Wheeler, that's not hyperbole -- that's bullshit.

"Well, literally, according to how this law is written, yes, it would," prohibit the sale of the Bible, he said, falsely. "This is, you know, PC culture, politically correct culture, gone horribly awry. This is really directly hitting at our First Amendment rights as American citizens. Now the Democrat legislators in this building, right behind me, the California state legislature, they want to tell you how to think, what sort of books that you can read, write and purchase."

There's this pyschological mechanism known as "projection". . . . Just sayin'.

There's video at the link, if you can stand it.