Supreme Court rules against Colorado conversion therapy ban

The vote was 8-1. Seems common sense to me if someone wants therapy to end their same sex attraction. How can you ban that?

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of a Christian counselor from Colorado, declaring that the state’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for homosexuality and gender confusion violates the First Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for homosexuality and gender confusion in minors violates the First Amendment.

The 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazar denounced the Colorado law as an “egregious assault” on freedom of speech and a form of “viewpoint discrimination.”

The Supreme Court upheld counselor Kaley Chiles’ right to engage in talk therapy with clients, including young people, who seek to reduce or eliminate homosexual inclinations, “change sexual behaviors, or grow in the experience of harmony with their bodies.”

The justices stressed that licensed professionals’ speech is not bound by “currently prevailing professional views.”

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the ruling, which reverses a previous decision from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Colorado.