Conversion therapy: Free speech or quackery?

The Supreme Court thinks licensed therapists should be free to tell gay kids they can and should become straight, said in The Nation . The justices recently heard arguments in Chiles v. Salazar , in which evangelical Christian therapist Kaley Chiles contended Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban for minors violates her free speech rights. Multiple studies have found that conversion therapy, which is counseling aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity, doesn’t work, and actually worsens depression and trauma. It’s a form of “child abuse” that’s “not regarded as a medically sound practice by any panel of scientific experts.” But the court’s Christian theocrats appeared ready to overturn Colorado’s ban, with Justice Samuel Alito calling it “blatant viewpoint discrimination