On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law restricting licensed mental health professionals from performing voluntary conversion therapy to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors.
In an 8-1 decision, the high court determined that Colorado’s 2019 law violated on First Amendment protections and ruled in favor of Christian therapist Kaley Chiles.
“We do not doubt that the question ‘how best to help minors’ struggling with issues of gender identity or sexual orientation is presently a subject of ‘fierce public debate,’” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
“But Colorado’s law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions. In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same.”
“Fortunately, that is not the world the First Amendment envisions for us,” the justice wrote.
Democrat-appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.
“To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms,” Jackson wrote. “It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect. It extends the Constitution into uncharted territory in an utterly irrational fashion. And it ultimately risks grave harm to Americans’ health and wellbeing.”
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