> "I want to be able to operate genuinely and create therapeutic relationships that are not hindered by the values and position of our state," Chiles says, adding that for now she has to turn away clients who want conversion therapy.
This paints a picture of conversion therapy as a nice chat in an office, instead of camps where children get sent away to, with minimal supervision, and barriers to even the parents getting a hold of them again.
Makes no sense. Although it does line up with an underlying impulse to discourage human reproduction. Reproductive suppression.
intermerda•4mo ago
> Alito replied, “I agree with you,” when Windsor said people who are conservative Christians need “to return our country to a place of godliness.” He said Windsor was “probably right” when she said, “I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.”
> “One side or the other is going to win,” agreed the justice. “I mean, there can be a way of working—a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. It’s not like you can split the difference.”
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nielsbot•4mo ago
What's worrying is that the court is being influenced by these views and could vote along those lines. Or do you think what they're doing and saying is fine?
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intermerda•4mo ago
Are you intentionally trying to undermine the gravity of this by straw-manning?