SCOTUS To Hear Challenge To CO Ex-Gay Torture Ban
NBC News reports:
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to law in Colorado that bans “conversion therapy” aimed at young people questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. The justices took up an appeal brought by Kaley Chiles, a Christian therapist, who argued that the restriction violates her free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
Chiles often has clients who are Christians, some of whom have questions about their sexual orientation and gender identity amid concerns that they are unable to live their lives in accordance with their faith, according to court papers.
The Supreme Court has on several occasions refused to take up challenges to similar conversion therapy bans, most recently in December 2023, when it left a law in Washington state in place. Three conservative justices said at that time they would have taken up the case.
Read the full article. Chiles is being represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, which once petitioned the Supreme Court to keep homosexuality criminalized in the United States.