Liberty Counsel petitions SCOTUS over counseling lawsuits
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A religious liberty law firm is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a free speech case now that the court has referenced it by name.
Liberty Counsel is petitioning the high court to review the New Jersey lawsuit King v. Christie , a case that upheld a ban on change counsel and which Liberty Counsel says the court abrogated last year by name.
Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver tells OneNewsNow the supreme court mentioned the case when the justices reviewed NIFLA v Becerra , a California case challenging that state's controversial law that clamped down on crisis pregnancy centers.
A second case, Pickup v Brown , was also cited by the court, Staver says.
"These were the first two change counsel cases that both went the wrong way against our arguments," Staver says, "and last year the United States Supreme Court abrogated both of them expressly by name."
Liberty Counsel attempted to have lower courts reopen these cases and set the rulings aside but that request was denied.
"They have refused so far to do so," he says. "So we have asked the United States Supreme Court to do just that, and we're going to do the same thing with the other case out of California, the Pickup case in the near future."
Liberty Counsel expects a response from the Supreme Court by the end of June.
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“"These were the first two change counsel cases that both went the wrong way against our arguments," Staver says, "and last year the United States Supreme Court abrogated both of them expressly by name."
Liberty Counsel attempted to have lower courts reopen these cases and set the rulings aside but that request was denied.
"They have refused so far to do so," he says. "So we have asked the United States Supreme Court to do just that, and we're going to do the same thing with the other case out of California, the Pickup case in the near future."”
People who identify as gay and are adults should be free to if they so choose pay for counciling and advice regarding change if that is their free will desire to do. Therapists and counselors who wish to assist in said effort should have the right to payment for services rendered. The state should not be allowed to come between the two.
You obviously have NO CLUE WTF your own article is about.
BOTH of the cases cited in your article prohibit 'conversion therapy' for MINORS.
READ MORE CAREFULLY!
It’s a battle over precedent and the 1st amendment. Getting all therapy bans of any kind overturned on 1st amendment grounds is a great effort.
Oh so NOW you admit that you want MINORS to be allowed to 'choose' 'conversion therapy'.
What other medical procedures should MINORS be allowed to choose for themselves Xx?
BTFW, despite LC's bullshit, this has NOTHING to do with the 1st Amendment. It's about MONEY. If they want to cite religion as their protection, the CANNOT demand PAYMENT for their 'services'.
The fact that you want these hacks to practice their harmful pseudoscience on innocent kids is disgusting.
Just as some people don't care about the lives of women, they also don't care about how much they harm gay people. And they claim to be Christians ... piffle.
The liberty council is doing a great and admirable work for the rights of all Americans.
Except for women, gay people, trans people, and many others. No wonder they're considered a hate group. They're a bunch of bigoted religious fanatics.
The Liberty Council consists of religious whackjobs who are trying to impose their delusions into our laws ... pathetic. Yet they'd screech their heads off if Muslims tried to do something similar.
The usual SPLC inspired hate and intolerance toward people who dare to disagree with their hate group. Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Council, Family Research Council, Concerned Women For America, CIS, FAIR, American Family Association, Judicial Watch, all do great work on behalf of the rights, life goals, and religious liberty of the American people from the progressive haters who would turn us from sovereign citizens to subjects of the state.
The SPLC consists of anti religious whack jobs who are trying to impose their delusions into our laws...pathetic. Yet they’d screech their heads off if conservatives tried to do something similar.