This has been a massive win for free speech, for genuine counselling, for those needing help, and for basic reality and biology. Hopefully many other countries will also come back to common sense and stop the persecution of those wanting change, and those offering change.

Let me start with a scenario: a person who says she is addicted to chocolate, or to buying too many clothes, goes to a friend to get some counsel on how to change. Prayer might even be asked for as part of this. Yet the state has declared that anyone offering such counsel or even just praying for the person can be fined or imprisoned.

Far fetched you say? Simply change the addictive behaviour to unwanted same-sex attraction and you have the reality found in many Western nations. Those who offer advice, counsel and prayer to homosexuals who are struggling with their sexual desires are said to be engaging in “conversion therapy” and that is now against the law in much of the West.

And consider one more irony, before I look at the new court case ruling. If a guy thinks he is actually female and he goes down the path of irrevocably altering his body with chemicals, surgery and the like, what is he doing? He is engaging in “conversion therapy”. Yet here the state and others affirm and promote these dangerous bodily mutilations and irreversible procedures!

That is why the recent US Supreme Court decision striking down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban is such a huge win – not just for Christian counsellors but for everyone seeking help for unwanted conditions. Gerald Posner said this about the outcome:

Today’s 8-1 Supreme Court decision is another turning point in one of the most contentious areas of modern medicine and culture: pediatric “gender affirming care.” The court ruled that bans on so-called “conversion therapy” may violate the First Amendment when they restrict what licensed therapists can say to their clients. This is not a narrow technical ruling. It goes to the heart of whether the state can dictate ideological viewpoints in therapeutic conversations.

One report put it this way:

The LGBT sex cult has banned Christian counsellors from helping people who struggle with sexual sin in 23 states. SCOTUS just said that’s unconstitutional. The case involved a complaint from Christian counsellor Kaley Chiles, who was banned by the state of Colorado from talking about their clients’ unwanted same-sex attraction.

In other words, Chiles’ clients were people who voluntarily sought the help of a Christian counsellor to help them work through sexual sin. But Colorado, and many other states, have banned this based on the government’s ideological viewpoint that LGBT people are “born that way,” a theory that is not supported by science and yet is being upheld as the law of the land. https://notthebee.com/article/supreme-court-strikes-down-conversion-therapy-ban-in-major-win-for-christian-counselors

Importantly, eight out of the nine SCOTUS judges affirmed this ruling. So a large majority of judges saw these bans for what they are: unconstitutional, among other things. Many people directly involved in this arena have said how important this ruling is. Detransitioner Chloe Cole said this about the minority opinion judge and the decision:

Ketanji Brown Jackson is such a stain on our country it’s embarrassing. She stands with made up “trans rights” instead of the rights in the constitution she swore to defend. There has never been a more obvious free speech issue on the Supreme Court….

 “Conversion therapy” in its lawful definition includes talk therapy that doesn’t affirm a trans identity. This means that until this SCOTUS ruling, psychologists in blue states were forced to participate in the trans delusion. Trans is a mental illness and now it can be treated.

The Finnish politician and Christian Päivi Räsänen who has fought lawfare on this matter for years now said this: “The U.S. Supreme Court defends freedom of speech and overturns a law that would criminalize so-called conversion therapy.”

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