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The Fox article is not accurate, normal for them, and the site is a blog from talk show hosts. It qualifies as opinion not news. A simple review of the said Bill.... AB 2943, as amended, Low. Unlawful business practices: sexual orientation change efforts. Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result result,or which results results, in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer. Existing law authorizes any consumer who suffers damages as a result of these unlawful practices to bring an action against that person to recover damages, among other things. Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law requires a violation of this provision to be considered unprofessional conduct and subjects the provider to discipline by the provider’s licensing entity. This bill would include, as an unlawful practice prohibited under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual. The bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature in this regard. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2943 The unamended bill is about fraudulent advertising practices. Much data is supplied in the bill amendment for the context of the addition to it. Of course the sky could fall down tomorrow, the wolf is coming, the wolf is coming.....

Comment: The small tract - An Appeal to Mothers, was the first writing of Mrs. White on health reform after her “health reform vision.” The subject of this tract was the “soul destroying vice” of “self abuse.” Coincidentally, the Whites had just visited a health sanitarium run by a Dr Jackson. He had written tracts on this subject, and strongly taught against "self-abuse". “Females possess less vital force than the other sex, and are deprived very much of the bracing, invigorating air, by their in-door life. The result of self-abuse in them is seen in various diseases, such as catarrh, dropsy, headache, loss of memory and sight, great weakness in the back and loins, affections of the spine, and frequently, inward decay of the head. Cancerous humor, which would lie dormant in the system their lifetime, is inflamed, and commences its eating, destructive work. The mind is often utterly ruined, and insanity supervenes.” A Solemn Appeal (Appeal to Mothers) pg.73 COMMENT: Females - at every stage of life, from conception to old age, have MORE "vital force" than males. More female fetuses survive, and women live longer. “The state of our world was presented before me, and my attention was especially called to the youth of our time. Everywhere I looked, I saw imbecility, dwarfed forms, crippled limbs, misshapen heads, and deformity of every description. Sins and crimes, and the violation of nature's laws, were shown me as the causes of this accumulation of human woe and suffering. I saw such degradation and vile practices, such defiance of God, and I heard such words of blasphemy, that my soul sickened. From what was shown me, a large share of the youth now living are worthless.” An Appeal to Mothers pg.17 “It is not the taxation of study alone that was doing the work of injury to your children, but that their own wrong habits were sapping the brain, and robbing the entire body of vital energy. The nervous system was becoming shattered by being often excited and thus laying the foundation for premature and certain decay. Self -abuse is killing thousands and tens of thousands.” Manuscript Releases Volume Five pg. 396 (Letter to Dr. and Sister Lay, Feb. 13, 1870) “The minds of some of these children are so weakened that they have but one half or one third of the brilliancy of intellect that they might have had, had they been virtuous and pure. They have thrown it away in self-abuse. Right here in this church, corruption is teeming on every hand.” Testimonies for the Church volume Two pg. 361 There is no present medical evidence that masturbation causes any problems, other than a loss of zinc (for males) if practiced to excess.

I don't consider Samson foolish, but definitely did many foolish things for sure!!