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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard a free-speech challenge to state laws against “conversion therapy” and sounded likely to rule the measures violate the 1st Amendment.

Is counseling free speech? That was the question at the Supreme Court in a dispute over Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” A 2019 law says counselors can’t try to change a minor client’s gender ...

In his first major climate speech, Pope Leo XIV renewed the Vatican’s vow to remain at the forefront of the movement to halt global warming. “We must shift from collecting data to caring, and from ...

Based on oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18. Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Six years ago, Colorado enacted a law that banned licensed counselors from using conversion therapy on minors. Twenty five other states have similar laws, prohibiting the ...

Conversion therapy, or the attempt to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity as a form of treatment, has been widely discredited by major American mental health and medical ...

The Supreme Court appeared open to a Christian counselor’s free speech challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban for minors during oral arguments Tuesday. Several members of the court’s ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy R. Holbrook, University of Denver (THE CONVERSATION) The constitutionality of ...