Minister removes Christian anti-gay therapy from health insurance
05 June 2012
Therapy provided by a Christian mental health group to help homosexuals 'repress their sinful urges' is being removed from the basic health package, health minister Edith Schippers told parliament in a briefing on Tuesday.
In January, the minister said she found it 'bizarre' that the treatment offered by the orthodox Christian organisation Different was being paid for by health insurers. However, because the Different is officially recognised as a provider of therapies, insurers could not refuse to pay.
Now health inspectors have investigated Different and said there is no question of people 'wrestling' with their homosexual feelings having psychiatric problems because of their religious beliefs, reports the Telegraaf.
Such people should seek pastoral care which should not be paid for by health insurance, the inspectors say. 'In these cases, there is no question of a psychiatric diagnosis or psychiatric treatment,' they say. dutchnews.nl
My little tulip, sans bicycle.
19 comments:
“Wow, look what Johannes made!”
bit.ly/KcOsyv
How very original.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/out-closet-and-pitch
http://bit.ly/YcS0x4
post lj
The relation that the "thuggish dutch" has with the McCanns is that apparently they are all British.
All the Dutch I know hope that in the future you keep these type of people on the island.
It’s a funny old world.
It certainly is lass, it certainly is.
I've just realised why I don't do forums, I'm neither moral enough, nor small minded enough.
By the by, I must put some batteries in the camera and take a few pics. Tis getting near time.
If I can remember which end you look through.
http://amsterdamherald.com/index.php/rss/756-20130325-singer-popularised-tulips-from-amsterdam-dies-aged-86-popular-music-smartlap-herman-eemink-netherlands-dutch-culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRvhNONZcfs
How very, errr, Dutch?
Belgium
http://bit.ly/WTmFNM
http://bit.ly/ZUbhRG
http://bit.ly/ZoARLq
Doesn't bode well for the future.
I wonder how many have gone from this country to do their jihaddy thing?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exodus-international-closes-article-1.1378129
One for twitter,
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/Life/130624_Faith_Healer
the tent will be put up at a place where circus tent is put up when the circus is here
Dutch nutter.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/meet-disgraceful-anti-gay-us-pastor-behind-russias-gay-ban
Defenestrator
Oh god. I got into a lengthy e-mail discussion/debate with this guy a while back. He simply could not believe that I was a straight male who was passionate about gay rights. Couldn't believe it, "accused" me over and over again of being gay. Such an idiot.
Sing away the gay,
not at Sting in Jamaica
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/jamaican-dancehall-star-sizzla-banned-from-music-festival-fo
and also not in De Melkweg (The Milky Way) in the Netherlands
http://www.zimbio.com/Prime+Minister+Portia+Simpson+Miller/articles/HJwbqK6bgie/Amsterdam+Venue+Cance
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/flatearthers-or-just-good-christians-meet-the-gay-converters-9065410.html
No Tony Bennett!
OT
http://blacksmithbureau.blogspot.co.uk/
And his previous posts a la Mitchell.
I'm reading, as I post this.
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id475.html#.UtkgIrM0oo4.twitter
Because we care.
http://blacksmithbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/because-we-care.html
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