The U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors violated the First Amendment. Kaley Chiles, a Christian counselor, wanted to actually help confused children rather than affirm their confusion.
Now a licensed counselor in Washington state hopes the ruling will help him do the same.
Brian Tingley, also a Christian, seeks to stop enforcement of a conversion therapy ban in Washington.
No doubt Tingley would agree with Chiles, who said that “people flourish when they live consistently with God’s design, including their biological sex,” and that God “establishes the foundation upon which to understand their identity and desires.”
After Chiles won her case, Tingely asked a federal court to reopen his case.
“Washington’s law bans voluntary conversations based on the state’s ideological crusade to impose gender ideology and to reject common sense,” said Hal Frampton, a lawyer at Alliance Defending Freedom. “This is censorship pure and simple, and it violates the First Amendment—as affirmed recently in an 8-1 Supreme Court decision.”
