Supreme Court to review state censorship of sexual orientation and gender-identity counseling

The Supreme Court has agreed to review Colorado’s censorship of a licensed counselor.

In dispute is the leftist state’s demand that only its messaging can be given to patients.

Colorado, which after years of swinging back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, suddenly some years ago took an abrupt left turn and has been an extremist ever since. And it has lost in multiple recent attempts to control residents’ speech.

It tried to force a baker, at Masterpiece Cakeshop, to express a pro-LGBT message that violated his religious faith and ended up being scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for its “hostility” to Christianity.

It tried the same scheme against a web designer, at 303 Creative, and took a major loss, again, from the Supreme Court.

The latest campaign by the state, under the leadership of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, was to censor the information counselors are allowed to provide clients in private consultations, if the topic is sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to the ADF, which has been handling the case involving counselor Kaley Chiles, Colorado’s censorship “violates licensed counselor Kaley Chiles’ freedom of speech and infringes on her free exercise of religion and that of her clients by censoring and prohibiting certain private client-counselor conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that the government disfavors while allowing – even encouraging – conversations the government favors.”

“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,” explained ADF spokeswoman Kristen Waggoner.

“There is a growing consensus around the world that adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria need love and an opportunity to talk through their struggles and feelings. Colorado’s law prohibits what’s best for these children and sends a clear message: the only option for children struggling with these issues is to give them dangerous and experimental drugs and surgery that will make them lifelong patients. We are eager to defend Kaley’s First Amendment rights and ensure that government officials may not impose their ideology on private conversations between counselors and clients.”

The high court confirmed Monday in will hear Chiles v. Salazar, where Chiles wants to help clients with various issues, including gender identity.

The ADF explained, “Many of Chiles’s clients come to her because they share her Christian worldview and faith-based values. These clients believe their lives will be more fulfilling if they are aligned with the teachings of their faith. Yet Colorado law censors Chiles from speaking words her clients want to hear because the government does not like the view she expresses.”

It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an often overturned panel, that affirmed the Colorado scheme to censor Christian perspectives.

The ADF explained, Colorado’s law violates Chiles’s freedom of speech by prohibiting licensed counselors from having any conversation with clients under age 18 that ‘attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.'”

The law, however, only prohibits the Christian perspective. It allows counselors to promote the LGBT ideologies.

Punishment for violating the censorship agenda can include suspension or revocation of a license.