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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down an 8-1 ruling in a Colorado case on Tuesday that could reverse the radical cultural agenda of California Democrats California has a similar law, and the court’s reasoning could blow a hole in California ’s own ban.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, said Colorado’s law “censors speech based on viewpoint.”“Conversion therapy,” as these laws define it, refers to counseling by a licensed therapist aimed at steering a minor away from same-sex attraction or a chosen transgender identity.Under laws like Colorado’s and California’s, a therapist is free to affirm one direction — but not to question it. One viewpoint is allowed. The other is banned.The court did not treat this as some minor dispute over licensing rules. It treated it as what it is: government deciding which viewpoints a counselor may express and which ones are forbidden.For years, the Left has tried to hide behind the word “conduct,” as if words spoken in a therapist’s office somehow stop being speech. The court wasn’t buying it. Not even close. California should be paying attention. It was the first state in the nation to ban licensed counselors from engaging in this kind of therapy with minors — and its law rests on the same basic theory the court just dismantled.If Colorado cannot ban disfavored viewpoints in counseling sessions, California is going to have a very hard time explaining why it still can. That is especially true now that the court has made clear the First Amendment does not vanish just because the speaker holds a professional license.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter. She argued that states need room to regulate licensed professionals and warned the ruling could weaken state oversight more broadly.Once the government can dictate what a therapist may say on one contested moral issue, it will try to do it on others.The principle is the same, and that is why this ruling matters well beyond one cultural flashpoint. This is also a political problem for California Democrats, who never met a speech restriction they did not want to dress up as compassion. They sold these laws as protection. For Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats, the decision creates a real problem. They have built an entire policy framework around the idea that the state can dictate acceptable viewpoints in sensitive areas.The court just signaled that what Democrats really built in Colorado was viewpoint discrimination with a state license attached. Here in California, where the progressive Left controls every lever of state policymaking, there is still one hard limit they cannot override: the U.S. Constitution. That remains the backstop for Californians when Sacramento goes too far.Kristi Noem weighs in on report husband lives cross-dressing double life: 'The family was blindsided by this' Shocking pictures of Kristi Noem's cross-dressing husband flaunting giant fake breasts revealed — sparking grave security questions Why TSA workers in Atlanta are being ordered to give back gift cards that Tyler Perry handed out during shutdownPentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran — as Trump warned regime to ‘get serious’ about peace deal: reportStream It Or Skip It: 'Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole' On Netflix, Where A Troubled Detective Tracks Down A Serial Killer Who Is Terrorizing Oslo
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