In America today, a doctor has the right to castrate a minor, but a counselor cannot provide therapy to one struggling with homosexual inclinations or even gender dysphoria. According to the federal courts, banning drag shows for minors violates the First Amendment, but banning parents from seeking psychological help for a child’s homosexual desires does not undermine freedom of speech. Under this queer reading of the law and the Constitution, it is more natural in our society for a man to be a woman than for a man to be a man.
And so the “conservative” U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a novel, destructive, and utterly unconstitutional lower court decision banning “gay conversion therapy” in Washington state. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, with Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the court’s three liberals in denying an appeal in Tingley v. Ferguson, which means Washington’s law and similar legislation in 19 other states and the District of Columbia will remain on the books.
Time and again, we see that none of Donald Trump’s appointments come close to the constitutional jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Under Washington’s SB…
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