Posted on 10/08/2025 8:15:26 AM PDT by RandFan
The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to rule against a Colorado law that bans so-called “conversion therapy” for minors in counseling, with several justices during oral arguments expressing concerns that it limits free speech.
Licensed counselor Kaley Chiles appealed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that upheld the Colorado law as a regulation on professional conduct by medical professionals, rather than just a limit on what can be said to patients.
The law prohibits any practice that “attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” More than two dozen states nationwide have similar laws, and the Trump administration also weighed in, asking the justices to curtail the law.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pressed an attorney for Colorado about whether the law unlawfully punishes a particular belief about conversion therapy. “It’s like blatant viewpoint discrimination,” Alito said.
Several conservative members of the court, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., asked questions that differentiated between advice given by a medical professional and the actual conduct of a medical professional, saying the former may have greater legal protections.
Experts and the parties have said the case turns on whether the justices decide the law restricts the speech of Chiles, or both her speech and professional conduct. If it’s only the speech, the law must pass a more rigorous legal standard, known as strict scrutiny, that could doom it.
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The law is speach control and everyone knows it. They left once again lies and expects everyone to pretend they just have a different perspective.
Now overturn Obergfell.
The whole point of these rules is to target churches after the Respect for Marriage Law mandates recognition of perversion.
This is amazing. These people have no problem with “counselors” arguing that a child should be surgically lifetime-altered from boy to girl, but if a counselor discusses (words only) why a child should not enter a homosexual lifestyle, then that’s a problem. We live in upside down world.
It is scientifically proven that people are not born genetically with a same-sex attraction, binary "on/off" gene.
Therefore, there is nothing to convert "to" or "from".
It is has long been diagnosed as a disorder and treated as such until the late 70's/early 80's. Political power and money browbeat psychiatrists either from speaking out, or the temptation to have "patients for life" = windfall of business was too great to resist.
This is the best explanation of the condition (see link below):
FWIW -— Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual’s sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms.
Surgery is now speech?????
YOU MUST ONLY THINK HIW WE WANT YOU TO....ALL GAY, ALL THE TIME, NO STRAIGHT, NONE OF THE TIME.
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