SCOTUS Strikes down Colorado ban on Conversion Therapy 8-1

[Damocles]

Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

It sided 8-1 with a therapist from Colorado Springs who argued the ban violated her free speech rights.

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US Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy​

The US Supreme Court has ruled against a law in Colorado that bans so-called conversion therapy for lesbian, gay and transgender people.

It sided 8-1 with a therapist from Colorado Springs who argued that the state's restrictions violated her free speech rights guaranteed under the US Constitution's First Amendment.

Conversion therapy - which professional and health associations denounce but some religious conservatives promote - aims to encourage lesbian, gay and transgender people to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The justices ruled that lower courts had "erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous scrutiny" to restrictions on free speech.

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[Jake Starkey]

I agree with this finding, but I don't like conversion therapy.

 

[AProudLefty]

Well if they want to risk harm and malpractice, that's on them.

 

[Stone]

I tried my best to convert a couple of Lesbians back in the day once. REALLY put a lot into it. Try and try as a might I just couldn't quite get them to fully convert, close,...but never could convert them all the way over. Sure wasn't from lack of effort though!

 

[Damocles]

I agree with this finding, but I don't like conversion therapy.

To be fair the therapist made it clear that it was only for those that believe their faith was more important than their sexuality.

Though, I also dislike conversion therapy.

 

[Moosakofsky]

I tried my best to convert a couple of Lesbians back in the day once. REALLY put a lot into it. Try and try as a might I just couldn't quite get them to fully convert, close,...but never could convert them all the way over. Sure wasn't from lack of effort though!

Kyrsten Sinema got reconverted. That was such a waste of a fine woman earlier

 

[Nordberg]

Life is not tough enough for those kids, now they have to suffer conversion therapy. The religious nuts will terrorize them.

 

[Stone]

I would assume that the reverse version of this type of conversion therapy has a very VERY low rate of success.

 

[AProudLefty]

I would assume that the reverse version of this type of conversion therapy has a very VERY low rate of success.

You just proved that the "therapy" doesn't work.