Colorado therapist Kaley Chiles’s attorneys argued that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors hinders her First Amendment rights.
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The argument before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday revisited the days between the 1950s and 1970s when the psychiatric profession considered homosexuality to be a mental disorder. CNN’s headline declared afterward that the “Supreme Court [was] prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban.” Several of the justices did seem skeptical of the Colorado law that prevents therapists from using conversion therapy. But the far-ranging discussion – from suicide and banning pit bulls in parks to speech in support of terrorism and electroshock therapy – left no clear sense of how the justices might rule, other