In general, the #FirstAmendment prevents the government from restricting #speech because it dislikes the content or message. But #SCOTUS has said certain restrictions aimed at governing a person’s conduct are permissible even if they incidentally burden speech. [if those restrictions adhere to the justices’ own ideologies.]
#SCOTUS #Christianity #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #SexualOrientation #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR
In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]
#SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy
Only Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented, reading a lengthy summary of her opposition from the bench.
Colorado’s statute, adopted in 2019, prohibits “any practice or treatment” that tries to change a minor’s “gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.”
#SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #SexualOrientation #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy
In its decision, #SCOTUS said the #law, as applied to talk therapy, impermissibly interferes with #FreeSpeech.
“#Colorado may regard its policy as essential to #PublicHealth & safety,” Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote for himself & 7 other justices from across the ideological spectrum. “But the #FirstAmendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
#MentalHealth #SexualOrientation #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy
#SCOTUS Tuesday sided with a #Christian #therapist, rejecting a #Colorado #law that prohibited #MentalHealth professionals from trying to change the #SexualOrientation or #gender #identity of #LGBTQ minors.
The court’s decision has implications for >20 other states that have similar laws banning [barbaric] so-called #ConversionTherapy, which critics say is ineffective & potentially dangerous for young people.
As the Chair of the local #Pride board, I want to convince the Directors that various #BlackLivesMatter #flags, and #antinazi flags, should be available among the other #gender identity and #sexualorientation Pride flags that we sell at Pride events.
What would you say?
The government has brought forward an amendment to its Crime and Policing Bill that would raise hate crimes based on sexual orientation, transgender identity or disability onto the same level as racist or religious hate crimes when it comes to sentencing. Ironically for veterans of law affecting LGBT people, it rewrites section 28 of an
Trump administration scrubs LGBTQ+ questions from federal surveys
"A group of #Orthodox #rabbis from the #US and #Israel issued a strongly worded letter condemning discredited practices that try to “convert” #LGBTQ+ people to #heterosexuality — a rarity for an establishment that still largely sees #queer people as sinful.
The letter, which was drafted years ago but released earlier in January in Israel, includes the signatures of prominent #modernOrthodox rabbis, including Yitz Greenberg, Shmuly Yanklowitz and Daniel Sperber, as well as a number of female rabbis.
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“We the undersigned,” it begins, “believe that it is forbidden according to #Halakhic principle and ethos, for anyone, including a #rabbi, #rabbanit, educator, or therapist to recommend to any person to undergo treatment for the purpose of changing a person’s #sexualorientation, commonly known as ‘#conversiontherapy. This is because conversion therapy is harmful, does not work, and because same-sex attraction is not a mental health problem.”
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