When the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal In 2015, I wondered what standards polygamists would use to claim similar rights. A Colorado Springs case was taken up over whether Christian counselors can advise minors to: gender dysphoria And on same-sex attraction, the court will again face questions about the free exercise of religion and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The case involves the parents of a teenager who claims a gender different from the one assigned at birth. The Christian parents sought help from a counselor who shared their faith. Colorado law prohibition ‘Conversion therapy’ for minors. therapist, carly chilesShe says the law silences her and deprives young people of help. She also said that she is not trying to convert anyone to her faith.
In a familiar secular progressive way, washington post We found a person identified as a transgender man who attempted suicide in 2010. According to the newspaper, the man called conversion therapy bad medicine.
Parents who have found their rights once thought “inalienable” to be eroded in many public schools have heard the courts uphold the Colorado law, denying therapists the right to tell patients what they think is best for them and losing the right to influence their children’s moral direction if they communicate what they would consider to be opposing views. You can find out.
As with abortion, the Post and other media outlets regularly look for people to confirm their editorial and moral views.
Maybe we could have consulted. world magazineThis is a Christian publication I contribute to. In October 2022, World published an article titled “Our voices can no longer be denied.” It focuses on people who have reversed or stopped their gender transition, or transitioners. The story featured three women who underwent gender reassignment and later expressed regret and remorse. The numbers are certainly small (thanks to the media and the way the medical community fails to consider the possibility of change), but they exist.
For people who seek a new life through a change in lifestyle, this is called being reborn. It is an experience that has been “discovered” by the secular media. jimmy carter He announced his transformation in 1976. This means that when a person accepts Jesus Christ as their Savior, he or she is given the ability to live a different life than the life he or she has lived so far. To deny a therapist, or anyone else, is a denial of the right to share a message that goes back 2,000 years and is responsible for changing the lives of billions of people, and still does today.
If the therapist follows the teen’s parents’ wishes without coercion, the court should uphold the therapist’s rights and strike down lower court rulings that seek to deny her constitutional rights. This includes the child’s right to freely exercise his or her faith and that of the teen’s parents.
If the Supreme Court does not recognize standards by which truth and morality can be judged, the image of the great lawgiver Moses should be removed from the marble frieze outside the Supreme Court building.
Readers can email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Look for Cal Thomas’ latest book, “The Night Watcher: My Report on America for Over 50 Years” (HumanixBooks).
