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Colby Cosh: Colorado's progressives probably wish they had a notwithstanding clause right about now

Conversion therapy ban ruled unconstitutional political censorship by U.S. Supreme Court

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On Tuesday morning the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Colorado law that forbade licensed therapists from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minor patients. Business as usual for those wicked Republican marionettes, some of you will no doubt say. We have all heard horror stories about conservative religious families who hire people to isolate, intimidate and even physically torment kids who have off-label sexual orientations or feelings about gender. But Colorado’s law regulating therapists was very broad indeed — so broad that, in the view of the court, it engaged the First Amendment in an unacceptable way.

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The suit against Colorado was brought pre-emptively, in advance of the law ever being applied, by a therapist who says she approaches minor........

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