California becomes First State in Nation to Ban 'Gay Cure' Therapy for Children

[Heywood J]

89. Right. I can tell you exactly where that "respect religious beliefs on child treatment" goes.

London — Walter Zepeda was possessed by the devil.

His parents, devoutly religious members of a Pentecostal church that believes in such manifestations, knew that much to be true...

So Diego Zepeda-Cordera called his friend Alex Osegueda, a fellow member of the Missionary Church of Christ and a man of equal devotion, to help him rid his son of the evil. They had no idea the seven days of forced confinement it took to drive away the devil would also, literally, drain the life out of Walter.

He lost nine litres of fluid as he lay strapped with men's ties to metal chairs in the basement apartment he shared with his family in this western Ontario city. Ultimately he died of dehydration.

Where's your respect for not "legislatively depriving them of that right" and "express[ing] our personal and religious views without government intervention"?

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That appeared to be the case in Aylmer in 2001, when the Children's Aid Society seized seven children from an Aylmer family.

The parents -- who had been investigated a year earlier for failing to get medical help for a child scalded by boiling water -- had this time hit their children with belts, electrical cords and the wire handle of a fly swatter, according to the children.

During the investigation, child welfare workers seized a Church of God parenting guide in the home that told parents children as young as six months should be beaten with a rod.

Does the "rubber meet the road" there for you? Or do you "empathize" with the dead and beaten?