Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear banned the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky on Wednesday, calling his executive order an overdue step to protect children from a widely discredited practice that tries to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.
The governor took action using his executive powers after efforts to enact a state law banning the practice repeatedly failed in the state’s Republican-dominated legislature.
“My faith teaches me that all children are children of God,” Beshear said during the signing ceremony at the Kentucky Statehouse. “And where practices are endangering and even harming those children, we must act. The practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ hurts our children.”
Check out this rare W for Kentucky!
Kentucky is a weird state that is die hard republican, but almost exclusively elects democratic governors.
gerrymandering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky's_congressional_districts
Doesn’t explain their shitty senators.
it’s easier to win elections with shitty candidates if you’re not worried about the opponent winning.
Senators are a state wide office and so aren’t impacted by gerrymandering. Them electing republican senators and democratic governors requires some split ticket voting.
This is a Beshear W. The rest of the state is a basket of deplorables.
They handled COVID pretty well too.
Keep in mind that executive orders can be easily rolled back by the next chief executive without going through the legislature. Executive orders are a tool that can be used for good, as in this case, but it’s just something to keep in mind.
Hard to build a business with that kind of insecurity though.
This seems illegal at first, but the actual executive order is fully within scope of his power:
