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SCOTUS Strikes Down Colorado Law Banning Conversion Therapy
United States Supreme Court ^ | March 31, 2026 | GORSUCH, J.

Posted on 03/31/2026 7:27:27 AM PDT by Labyrinthos

Held: Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to Ms. Chiles’s talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.

(Excerpt) Read more at supremecourt.gov ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ban; colorado; homosexualpolicy; mentalhealth; therapy

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I did not see this posted in another thread. All justices -- except for Jackson - joined the opinion.
1 posted on 03/31/2026 7:27:27 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

Praise the Lord!


2 posted on 03/31/2026 7:27:57 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Finally....common sense. Jackson does not belong on that court.


3 posted on 03/31/2026 7:31:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Every court has a jester.


4 posted on 03/31/2026 7:32:28 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

Hallelujah!!

Some sanity for Coloradical.


5 posted on 03/31/2026 7:32:56 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Tell It Right

Are they LETTING them do ‘conversion therapy’?

what are you praising?


6 posted on 03/31/2026 7:33:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Well jackson does not know what a woman is, so this fits. She is a very mixed up ...er...human.


7 posted on 03/31/2026 7:34:28 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Labyrinthos

Nice to see. 8 to 1 , so even some liberal justices agreed that it was a bridge too far to ban conversion therapy.


8 posted on 03/31/2026 7:37:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Labyrinthos

Glancing over the dissent, it appears to have been written by lawyers for the so-called amicus curia.


9 posted on 03/31/2026 7:40:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Labyrinthos

We won one. Amazing.


10 posted on 03/31/2026 7:41:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Visit Chicongo! America's Wrong Place at the Wrong Time! We have Backshooters! - Governor Prixter.)
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To: Labyrinthos

It has to be a speech issue because there is certainly no science behind any of what the Trans Doctors are doing.

These doctors should all have their licenses revoked for malpractice and ethics violations.


11 posted on 03/31/2026 7:45:37 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Labyrinthos

The real headline

SCOTUS Strikes Down Colorado Law Banning Therapy


12 posted on 03/31/2026 7:47:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Mr. K

Yes, Colorado, to satisfy radical LGBT+ demands, banned all conversion therapies for LGBT people who desired to become straight.
Obvious violation of constitution!
So Supremes stopped this ban!


13 posted on 03/31/2026 7:53:49 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Jackon will serve as an ongoing monument to the idiocy that defined the Biden “presidency”. An incompetent, corrupt fool who occupied The White House with a stolen election.


14 posted on 03/31/2026 7:54:22 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Pontiac

“ These doctors should all have their licenses revoked for malpractice and ethics violations.”
As Ive posted before, any hospital staff that participates in tranny surgery on a minor should be prosecuted! This should include anyone participating in the procedure. Nurses, anesthesiologists, and hospital administrators.
Loss of medical license and jail time.
Next comes public flogging, make it hurt🤬


15 posted on 03/31/2026 8:00:43 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Mr. K
Yes. I know it's hard to read the double-negative (SCOTUS blocks the law that bans). If I'm reading it correctly, people (parents) can do conversion therapy (help clients quit doing trans/gay if they want). Colorado tried to block what the left views as Christian counseling of LGBTQ/Trans leaning folks who want to go back to normal. SCOTUS said people can get Christian counseling (common sense counseling) if they want.

From SCOTUS:
Some are content with their sexual orientation and gender identity and want help with social issues or family relationships, while others hope to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions, change sexual behaviors, or grow in the experience of harmony with their bodies. With all those clients, Ms. Chiles seeks to help them reach their stated objectives. And she employs only talk therapy. In 2019, Colorado adopted a law prohibiting licensed counselors from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors, Colo. Rev. Stat. §12–245–224(1)(t)(V), defining the term to include “any practice or treatment . . . that attempts . . . to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” as well as any “effor[t] to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions toward individuals of the same sex,”

16 posted on 03/31/2026 8:02:16 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Pontiac; Mr. K; 9422WMR

“Conversion therapies” (or “reparative therapies”) are interventions purported to alter same-sex attractions or an individual’s gender expression with the specific aim to promote heterosexuality as a preferable outcome


17 posted on 03/31/2026 8:06:06 AM PDT by JayGalt (If you give into blackmail, the blackmail never stops)
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Jackson the only one to dissent.

Gorsuch Decision here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-539_fd9g.pdf

The court holds that Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to a counselor’s talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts should have applied a more rigorous standard of review.


18 posted on 03/31/2026 8:09:08 AM PDT by CFW
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To: 9422WMR

Any Mental Health professional should be banned from the profession for life and be publicly shamed internationally.


19 posted on 03/31/2026 8:11:10 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; All

We won one. Amazing.


Conservatives have been winning a lot of battles at the Supreme Court.

This is because the Supreme Court, as of 2020, finally has a majority of originalists and texualists, compared with strong majorities of Progressives from about 1940 until at least the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. Then we had a mixed court with Kennedy playing swing for many years.


20 posted on 03/31/2026 8:12:08 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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