Anti-gay hate group has problem with California not being forced to find a 'cure' for homosexuality

Religious right groups who have been either named by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups or profiled for their usage of anti-gay propaganda are quick to whine about being "unfairly attacked."

However, as demonstrated many times on this blog, SPLC has a more than adequate point in focusing on these groups, and not simply because of their blatant attacks on the lgbt community, but also how they deliberately distort even the smallest moves of progress pertaining to the lgbt community.

An example of this is how SPLC-named anti-gay hate group, American Family Association, is describing changes to the California welfare code. Through its phony news service, One News Now, AFA put out the following:

Calif. welfare code: Homosexuality inborn

A Christian social worker is taking exception to a new California law that declares homosexuals are "born gay."

Beginning this New Year, California will implement AB 2199 and ultimately strike down the requirement on the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research on the "causes and cures of homosexuality." According to Veronica Esqueda, a renal social worker in Los Angeles, the measure will portray alternate lifestyles as acceptable and normal.

"I do think it's going to open up their comfort level, and I think it's going to make it more acceptable," she explains. "Obviously, I am one that believes that it's not an error -- you are born the way God intended you to be," she notes, adding that she believes homosexuality is a choice.

One News Now is adding details to the situation which clearly don't exist. AB 2199 does the following:

Amends existing law that requires the State Department of Mental Health to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation, including deviations conducive to sex crimes against children, and the causes and cures of homosexuality, and into methods of identifying potential sex offenders. Requires the department to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into such crimes and identifying those who commit them.

AB 2199 only says that health officials are no longer required to seek a cure for homosexuality when dealing with clients. The law is 60 years old and antiquated. And there is no science that says homosexuality needs to be cured. AB 2199 says nothing about homosexuality being inborn.

But it does say that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. This is in line with a vast majority, if not all of scientific opinion on the subject.