Colorado Attorney General Files Brief Asking Supreme Court to Uphold Conversion Therapy Ban

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser officially filed an 83-page brief yesterday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a state law against conversion therapy, according to the Denver Post. This follows from the case of Kaley Chiles, a Colorado Springs counselor who may or may not be the reincarnation of the evil old witch from Hansel and Gretel, who challenged the state law on the basis that it violates her First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion. The case was taken up by the Supreme Court of the United States back in March, with oral arguments expected to begin October 7.

“No amount of talk, pressure, or shaming can make a gay person not gay, or a transgender person not transgender,” Weiser says. “Licensed therapists shouldn’t be able to abuse their position of trust to push an agenda that causes long-lasting harm to kids and families. The Supreme Court should adhere to its long line of precedents and affirm the states’ power to regulate health care and protect kids and families from substandard practices.”

Chiles is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization that has been behind a number of high-profile cases protecting the free speech of conservatives and only conservatives and a number of cases around abortion bans including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the famous case in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade. So naturally their next step is to protect an evil witch who wants to psychologically torture children.

“The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should a counselor be used as a tool to impose the government’s biased views on her clients,” says Kristen Waggoner, the CEO and general counsel for ADF and protégé of the dark lord Satan.

The SCOTUS would seem to have painted themselves into a corner with the recent U.S. v. Skrmetti ruling because, if a state has a right to ban puberty blockers because they’re supposedly harmful to children, it seems a difficult leap to say that a state doesn’t have a legal right to protect children from a scientifically discredited practice like conversion therapy. Typically I’d say that only insane extremists would accept Chiles’ argument, but there seem to be a few of those on the SCOTUS at the moment, so who the fuck knows at this point?