California Bill Forces Summit Ministry to Relocate Its Young Adult ConferenceAB 2943 prohibits businesses and professionals from offering help to young adults for same-sex attraction or gender confusion.
YouTube/Summit Ministries
By Nancy Flory
Published on May 1, 2018
A Christian ministry that helps teens and young adults live their faith has suspended its young adult conference in California and seek a new location. California’s AB 2943 may become law and they’re worried that conference speakers might be persecuted under the new law.
Summit Ministries “helps students develop an intelligent, defensible Christian worldview.†Summit had planned to hold a conference in June at Biola University, but realized AB 2943 could soon become law in the state. The proposed law forbids businesses and professionals to offer “to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual.†Doing so amounts to “deceptive business practices,†according to the bill.
Jeff Myers, the president of Summit, said young people ask questions about gender confusion and gender identity. “What are we going to say to a young person experiencing sexual confusion?†Myers asked in a statement. “That the state of California forbids us from allowing a biblical ethic embraced by billions of people for thousands of years to inform our answer?â€
“This is the most blatant chilling of free speech in America in my lifetime,†he added. ...
Full story