US EditionUS Supreme Court seems skeptical toward Colorado LGBT 'conversion therapy' ban
The Supreme Court is reviewing if Colorado's 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors violates therapists' free speech rights amid 23 states with similar laws.
- The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing Colorado's law banning licensed counselors from providing conversion therapy to minors, considering whether this ban violates First Amendment rights.
- Kaley Chiles argues that the law prevents voluntary counseling that aligns clients' identities with their beliefs and claims it violates her First Amendment rights.
- Colorado officials, including Patty Salazar, defend the law by citing studies that show conversion therapy as harmful to minors, while the Attorney General states that conversion therapy is unsafe and ineffective.
- The Supreme Court's justices indicated skepticism about the law, questioning its implications on free speech and potential viewpoint discrimination.
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NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge on free speech grounds to Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ “conversion therapy” for children under 18. Kaley Chiles is a Colorado therapist and evangelical Christian who argues the state’s 2019 law that bans this discredited and dangerous treatment, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a violation of her First Amendment rights. The oth…
US Supreme Court Weighs Conversion Therapy Free Speech Challenge - Liberty Nation News
By John Klar The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case challenging a Colorado law prohibiting conversion therapy, which involves counseling gay or transgender counselees who question their gender identity or sexual orientation. The law prohibits therapists from discussing gender dysphoria and sexual orientation with minors unless they are “affirming” transgender identities or gay behaviors. […]
‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?
The Supreme Court dove into the culture wars again this week by hearing arguments on conversion therapy — a controversial pseudoscientific practice that attempts to change LGBTQ+ patients’ sexuality to align with heterosexual desires. In Chiles v. Salazar, Kasey Chiles, an evangelical therapist in Colorado, is alleging that Colorado’s conversion therapy ban violates her 1st Amendment rights, leaving her unable to work with patients who want to l…
'The devil is in the details' - The Catholic debate over conversion therapy
“Why haven’t you taken out an application to seminary?” Simon Fung’s spiritual director asked him late in his senior year of college.The devout Catholic looked at the priest and said that there was only one thing holding him back — he was attracted to men.Quietly, Fung said, the priest scribbled a website down, told Fung to talk to a counselor and to come back in a year.Credit: George Rudy / Shutterstock.Subscribe nowSo Fung set out. He was dete…
REC Supreme Court to Rule on Protections Against Discredited and Unsafe Conversion “Therapy” Practices on LGBTQ Youth
Tuesday, October 7 marked the first day back for the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall term — and the first case the justices heard could have consequential impacts on the LGBTQ community. Chiles v. Salazar concerns a Colorado therapist, Kaley Chiles, seeking to overturn the state’s law protecting LGBTQ youth from so-called conversion “therapy,” or practices [...] The post REC Supreme Court to Rule on Protections Against Discredited and Unsafe Conversi…
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