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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 03:50 PM Dec 2023

Clarence Thomas is outraged that the Supreme Court refused to take up conversion therapy case

Thomas never should have been placed on SCOTUS with his reputation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/clarence-thomas-is-outraged-that-the-supreme-court-refused-to-take-up-conversion-therapy-case/ar-AA1llk0g

The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a Washington state law banning conversion therapy for minors, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a blistering dissent.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein,” Thomas wrote in his dissent. “Yet, under S.B. 5722, licensed counselors cannot voice anything other than the state-approved opinion on minors with gender dysphoria without facing punishment.”

The challenge to the Washington law known as S.B. 5722 was filed by Brian Tingley, a licensed family counselor who practices conversion therapy. He argues that the state’s ban on licensed therapists performing conversion therapy on minors violates his constitutional rights. He is represented by the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Clarence Thomas is outraged that the Supreme Court refused to take up conversion therapy case (Original Post) RKP5637 Dec 2023 OP
F You Clarence Diamond_Dog Dec 2023 #1
And well said. I hate that moron!!! RKP5637 Dec 2023 #2
Question for Clarence StClone Dec 2023 #12
You beat me MOMFUDSKI Dec 2023 #3
He needs lots more free yacht time with his rich friends to get over this one. Scumbag! dutch777 Dec 2023 #4
Go fuck yourself your dishonor Blue Owl Dec 2023 #5
That violates "HIS" constitutional rights!!!!! As in "THE COUNSELORS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! Maraya1969 Dec 2023 #6
F*** you, and your little dog, toto-alito, too! BComplex Dec 2023 #7
Too bad hypocrisy.. raising2moredems Dec 2023 #8
You can blame Arlen Specter for most of it. Butterflylady Dec 2023 #11
The plaintiff can talk about conversion therapy all he wants onenote Dec 2023 #9
The only 'converting' Conversion Therapy does, 70sEraVet Dec 2023 #10

StClone

(11,869 posts)
12. Question for Clarence
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 08:40 PM
Dec 2023

Would non-monetary conversion therapy work to make you less of an easy mark for Billionaires manipulation? No, so you are who you are mister pube hair on the coke can?

raising2moredems

(706 posts)
8. Too bad hypocrisy..
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 10:45 PM
Dec 2023

Is not an impeachable offense requiring removal from the bench. Uncle Clarence continues to prove why he was barely approved for the high court. And what a slap in the face to Thurgood Marshall - Uncle Clarence would have never attained what Marshall did if he was born in the same era.

Butterflylady

(3,983 posts)
11. You can blame Arlen Specter for most of it.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 11:43 AM
Dec 2023

I hope he's in hell for backing him. Even though he came to his senses at the end before he died he still is to blame for how he helped Thomas to get on the court.

onenote

(44,620 posts)
9. The plaintiff can talk about conversion therapy all he wants
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 03:06 AM
Dec 2023

He just can’t practice it. Just as he can talk about electroshock therapy or using leeches to cure patients or any other discredited medical procedures and treatments the practice of which is prohibited.

Not seeing a first amendment issue.

70sEraVet

(4,142 posts)
10. The only 'converting' Conversion Therapy does,
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 09:04 AM
Dec 2023

is to convert live kids into suicide statistics!
We need to hold an exorcism party on Supreme Court Justices, to get the demons out!!

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