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Supreme Court’s ‘conversion therapy’ ruling could doom Democrat censorship in California

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down an 8-1 ruling in a Colorado case on Tuesday that could reverse the radical cultural agenda of California Democrats

In Chiles v. Salazar, the court invalidated a Colorado ban on gay “conversion therapy” for minors.

California has a similar law, and the court’s reasoning could blow a hole in California’s own ban.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, said Colorado’s law “censors speech based on viewpoint.”

That is a brutal sentence for defenders of California’s law.

“Conversion therapy,” as these laws define it, refers to counseling by a licensed therapist aimed at steering a minor away from same-sex attraction or a chosen transgender identity.

And that is exactly why the case matters so much.

Under laws like Colorado’s and California’s, a therapist is free to affirm one direction — but not to question it. One viewpoint is allowed. The other is banned.

That’s not neutral regulation. That’s the government picking sides.

The court did not treat this as some minor dispute over licensing rules. It treated it as what it is: government deciding which viewpoints a counselor may express and which ones are forbidden.

For years, the Left has tried to hide behind the word “conduct,” as if words spoken in a........

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