{"id":81838,"date":"2026-03-31T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81838"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:39:07","slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules Against Colorado Ban On \u2018Conversion Therapy\u2019 For LGBTQ+ Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">The Supreme Court<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Tuesday ruled against a law banning \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law \u201ccensors speech based on viewpoint.\u201d The First Amendment, he wrote, \u201cstands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774960747\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Supreme Court Rules Against Colorado Ban On \u2018Conversion Therapy\u2019 For LGBTQ+ Kids\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: The Supreme Court\u00a0on Tuesday ruled against a law banning \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}