The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed a religious counselor’s challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for gay and transgender minors, another legal setback for the LGBTQ community that will reverberate in nearly half the country.
The decision technically does not strike down the law, which remains in place at the moment, but means lower courts will now review it again by applying the highest form of judicial scrutiny.
The outcome that puts the prohibition on exceedingly thin ice.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for an 8-1 court. Justice Ketanji Jackson, a liberal, dissented.
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The ruling explicitly recognizes that restrictions on conversion therapy have their place for protecting the public, so it largely upholds the law.
It just says the law can't be applied to talking. But the rest can stand just fine, according to the opinion.
