"a challenge to Colorado's ban on 'conversion therapy for minors, is about whether the highest court in the land will once again choose bigotry over humanity and call it constitutional. And it will likely do it based on a lie. The Alliance Defending Freedom, which is defending conversion therapy in the case, is accused of misquoting and misrepresenting a 2016 study by scholars Lisa Diamond and Clifford Rosky."
"Conversion therapy is not in any way therapy. It is psychological torture masquerading as religion, marketed as "healing," and has historically been inflicted on queer people under the guise of saving their souls. It sure as hell doesn't save them - it destroys them. It was born in the 19th century from the same pseudoscientific junk that justified lobotomies and "hysteria" diagnoses. Doctors prescribed hypnosis, electroshock, even chemical castration to "cure" homosexuality."
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors, with broader implications for constitutional protection and LGBTQ+ safety. The Alliance Defending Freedom is accused of misquoting and misrepresenting a 2016 study in defense of conversion practices. Conversion therapy is described as psychological torture cloaked as religion and marketed as "healing," with historical roots in 19th-century pseudoscience that led to harmful medical practices. Major medical organizations condemn conversion therapy as quackery and abuse. Continued promotion of conversion practices by religious conservatives perpetuates harm against queer people.
Read at Advocate.com
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