US EditionSupreme Court sides with Colorado counselor in challenge to conversion therapy law
The 8-1 ruling says Colorado cannot restrict counselors’ talk therapy based on viewpoint and sends the case back for further review.
- On Tuesday, The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy violates the First Amendment free speech rights of therapist Kaley Chiles.
- In deciding the case, The Supreme Court accepted Chiles' argument that the law regulates speech rather than conduct, contrary to Colorado's position. Conversion therapy aims to encourage minors to identify as heterosexual or their birth gender.
- The American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics discredit the practice as ineffective and harmful, while Colorado's statute specifically applied to licensed therapists rather than religious entities.
- With more than 20 states maintaining similar laws, the decision carries broad national implications. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson served as the sole dissenter in the ruling, which Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
- The 6-3 conservative majority frequently supports Christian free speech claims that conflict with anti-discrimination laws, following a pattern established in 2018 California and Maryland rulings where The Supreme Court also prioritized religious expression rights.
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Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ kids
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard …
Supreme Court opens door to controversial conversion therapy
Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly.Siding with a Christian counselor in Colorado, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out the state’s law banning conversion therapy. The decision could well invalidate laws in some two dozen other states — laws that bar mental health therapists from practicing a version of talk therapy that seeks to change a teenager’s sexual orientation or gender identity.Conversion therapy is general…
Supreme Court Rules 8-1 to Strike Down Colorado's Ban on LGBTQ Conversion Therapy for Minors
The United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for children is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. According to the majority, the ban “regulates speech based on viewpoint,” meaning that the lower courts erred in “failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.” A concurring opinion authored by Justice [...] The post Supreme Court Rules 8-1 to Strike Down Colorado’s Ban o…
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Conservative AngleBan on Conversion Therapy Is Unconstitutional: Lone Dissent, DEI Judge Jackson
The ban against Talk Therapy for children identifying as transgender has been struck down as unconstitutional. SCOTUS found censoring “certain conversations between clients and counselors based on their viewpoints violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.” The only dissent was from a furious Ketanji Jackson. As Rep. Brandon Gill said on X, she ruled last year that states “do not” have the right to ban child sex changes but ruled to…
Colorado leaders weigh next steps after Supreme Court rejects state ban on ‘conversion therapy’
Colorado leaders said they are weighing next steps after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the state’s ban on “conversion therapy” for children, as critics and supporters cheered or lambasted the ruling. The court’s near-unanimous decision called the Colorado law, passed in 2019, an “egregious assault” on the First Amendment. It remains to be […]
Colorado Can’t Ban Counselors from Helping Minors Escape LGBTQ Ideology, Supreme Court Rules
In an 8-1 opinion Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado law violates the First Amendment by discriminating against the free speech rights of a Christian therapist who helps minors embrace their biological reality and heterosexual inclinations.
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