Posted on 12/27/2022 5:55:01 PM PST by marshmallow
In Chiles v. Salazar, (D CO, Dec. 19, 2022), a Colorado federal district court rejected constitutional challenges to Colorado's ban on mental health professionals engaging in conversion therapy for minors who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or gender non-conforming. In a suit brought by a licensed counselor, the court found no violation of plaintiff's free speech rights because the Minor Therapy Conversion Law regulates professional conduct rather than speech. Any speech that is affected is incidental to the professional conduct. The court also found no violation of plaintiff's free exercise rights, saying in part:
According to Ms. Chiles, the Minor Therapy Conversion Law is not neutral because it was “well-known” at the time the Colorado General Assembly enacted the Minor Therapy Conversion Law that conversion therapy was primarily sought for religious reasons.... Therefore, Ms. Chiles’ argument goes, the Minor Therapy Conversion Law impermissibly burdens practitioners who hold particular religious beliefs.... The Court disagrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
court rejected constitutional challenges to Colorado’s ban on mental health professionals engaging in conversion therapy
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This is some sort of quad-negative sentence.
I’ll figure it out later . . . maybe . . .
We do not have a legal system. We have a bunch of star chambers with democrat politicians in black robes dictating new laws on an individual basis.
This one is LGBTQ, appointed by Joe “Daughter With Benefits” Biden.
Lezbo should have recused herself.
Hopefully it will be appealed.
So gender reassignment counseling is banned? Cool.
We can dream. The aim of the woke is to increase the number of irreversible sterilizations, so old moral codes are not allowed in any argument lest the woke be stymied.
The LGBT movement is a religion.
It is also a government-established religion.
There is no “conversion therapy.” The very term is Marxist propaganda. These kids are normal and not “LGBTQ+” without outside actors recruiting them. They WERE “converted” into the gender cult by grooming teachers, therapists or social workers. They need to be deprogrammed and the damage repaired.
It sounds like the counselor has to do it for free.
I may be reading too much into it.
I’m not sure what they mean by profession. Is it any service they charge a fee for? So if there’s no fee, there’s no violation?
Other thought: if they’re licensed therapists they lose their license if they do this type of therapy even for free.
Now the court itself may not know. I can see a pastor for instance just have a conversation, not collect any fee, and the court would still have a problem with it and distort the meaning of “professional” in order to arrive at their decision.
if the client is willing to go through it, where is the problem? Why the ban? What legal grounds did they use to ban covnersio n therapy?
How difficult do writers make it so that the negatives present such a different picture than what is the TRUTH.
The Left discovered that and with the help of lawyers like the satanic, thoroughly evil Mark Elias they can control the world with simple WORD SALAD.
Hopefully, this will come to a screeching halt someday soon.
I think it means Feral “judges” like to “hook up” with little kids but right now there is a limited supply of them. The public schools are pumping them out as fast as they can along with supplies of public school mass murderers.
Fortunately they cannot ban the clergy or laymen from providing conversion therapy as part of Christian counseling as long as it is done for free and clearly identified as Christian counseling.
If you think about it, rehab is a form of “conversion therapy”; are they going to ban that as well?
if they have their way they will
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