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Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ+ kids
- SilverElfin 7mo agoThe important parts: > 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 that few laws pass. > Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint.” The First Amendment, he wrote, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.” > In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that states should be free to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. The decision, Jackson wrote, “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”
- remarkEon 7mo agoFascinating to know that Jackson would’ve sided with the majority in Dobbs.
- jfengel 7mo agoThis is the reason I refuse to refer to the Supreme Court members by their chosen title. Conversion therapy does not work. It harms children. These facts are not in dispute. Conversion therapy is not talk therapy. It is humiliation, threats, and torture of children. Those are crimes, but it is practically impossible for a child to protect themselves when their parents have sent them for this abuse. Maybe this is "legal" according to whatever reading the court has chosen to apply. But whatever it is, it certainly isn't justice.