Also: Florida will not kill James Duckett this week. And: What's next for conversion therapy bans after Tuesday's SCOTUS decision? Lastly: Law Dork in the media.
I am no lawyer, but i do not see barring conversion therapy as a free speech issue...at all. To me, it is an issue of professional standards of competence and do-no-harm, and needs to be firmly established and monitored by the professional organization(s) that license therapists. Surely there are words that a competent, responsible therapist cannot say to a client, i.e. maybe you should just kill yourself (to take an extreme example, but conversion therapy can result in suicide by clients). No one but a sadist would suggest that this is a "free speech" issue. Judges lack expertise in the therapeutic realm, and it seems completely wrongheaded for them to approach it as they are doing. The licensing boards for therapists have the research in hand about the harm conversion therapy can cause, and they need to stand up and make it clear that if a therapist does this, they will lose their license, like any professional healer who does malpractice.
A welcome dismissal! But probably just a change of scenery from the Barbies to “serious” menfolk … but is the damage to the DoJ reparable?
As in Ken-Ken?
Absolutely! Trump can’t can Ken-Ken, can he?
He might, if Ken can't cancan...
In Cancun.
Exactly! Or in court-court.
Wearing shorts, sport.
I am no lawyer, but i do not see barring conversion therapy as a free speech issue...at all. To me, it is an issue of professional standards of competence and do-no-harm, and needs to be firmly established and monitored by the professional organization(s) that license therapists. Surely there are words that a competent, responsible therapist cannot say to a client, i.e. maybe you should just kill yourself (to take an extreme example, but conversion therapy can result in suicide by clients). No one but a sadist would suggest that this is a "free speech" issue. Judges lack expertise in the therapeutic realm, and it seems completely wrongheaded for them to approach it as they are doing. The licensing boards for therapists have the research in hand about the harm conversion therapy can cause, and they need to stand up and make it clear that if a therapist does this, they will lose their license, like any professional healer who does malpractice.
Thanks for mentioning TFDP! Florida currently has two other executions scheduled, which I'm also covering.