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Mark Joseph Stern is suitably woke.

He writes for Slate. He’s a legal analyst who uses the term “conversion therapy” when discussing any sort of therapy that might deal with someone’s discomfort over same-sex desire or gender dysphoria from a religious perspective. He wrote an article titled, “How in the World Was the Supreme Court’s Awful Conversion Therapy Ruling 8–1?”

He still managed to get pilloried on Bluesky, the leftist alternative to X where they eat their own via increasingly impossible purity tests.

Now, in case you missed this “awful conversion therapy ruling,” every justice aside from Ketanji Brown Jackson (natch) found in a Wednesday decision that a lower court did not apply appropriate scrutiny to a Colorado law that banned, among other things, talk therapy that might deal with people struggling with same-sex attraction or gender identity from a religiously orthodox perspective.

Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor, challenged the 2019 statute on First Amendment grounds. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the law “censors speech based on viewpoint” and that a lower court must apply strict scrutiny, or the most exacting constitutional standard, to examining the law and what it covers.

“Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same,” Gorsuch wrote.

“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”

Stern, in his write-up of the case in Slate, called the decision “profound hypocrisy masquerading as principle,” using a circular appeal to authority, among other arguments.

Almost 30 states have curbed or outlawed “therapy” that seeks to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity—that is, to make them stop being gay, bisexual, or transgender. These measures take the form of professional licensure rules, subjecting therapists to fines (and eventually loss of license) if they try to “turn” an LGBTQ minor straight or cisgender. Nonprofessional counselors, including family and clergy, can still engage in this conduct, as can professional counselors outside of their paid practice. Every major American medical association to consider this issue has come out in opposition to “conversion therapy” for youth and endorsed its prohibition. …  Advertisement - story continues........

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