| ▲ | Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on 'conversion therapy' for LGBTQ+ kids(apnews.com) | |||||||
| 2 points by SilverElfin 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ||||||||
| ▲ | SilverElfin 8 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The important parts: > An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass. > Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint.” The First Amendment, he wrote, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.” > In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that states should be free to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. The decision, Jackson wrote, “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.” | ||||||||
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