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It wasn't about conversion therapy, it was all about free speech
RealClearWire via World New Daily ^ | Mark Mayfield, Megan Cannedy, Real Clear Wire

Posted on 04/18/2026 9:47:28 AM PDT by fwdude

Headlines for the past few weeks have capitalized on the cruel connotations surrounding conversion therapy, proclaiming that the United States Supreme Court struck down "a conversion therapy ban." The problem is that the Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision that included Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, told Colorado something that needed to be said: Your law was never actually about that.

Chiles v. Salazar is being reported as a "conversion therapy" ruling. That framing is a political bait-and-switch. What the court struck down was a government mandate on what therapists may say to a consenting minor, forbidden words depending entirely on which direction they pointed.

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Pretty good article on the recent Chiles ruling and the mass hysteria reaction of the homo-left. Although I think the authors still soft-pedal the real issue.
1 posted on 04/18/2026 9:47:28 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

” a consenting minor”

This is a thing?
Which Pedo Group came up with that?


2 posted on 04/18/2026 11:26:47 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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