On Tuesday, the Supreme Court broke from its increasingly common practice of deciding important cases without holding an oral argument or even explaining the reasoning of its decision, to hear a case about whether states may ban a practice known as “conversion therapy” — therapy sessions which seek to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

About half of the states have laws banning conversion therapy for patients under the age of 18, including Colorado, whose law was before the Court on Tuesday.

Realistically, there was never any chance that this Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 Republican supermajority, would uphold the Colorado law at issue in Chiles v. Salazar. When this Court hears cases that place the interests of queer Americans against the claimed rights of religiou

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