State’s Rule Cracking Down On Christian Gender Counseling Runs Afoul Of Supreme Court Ruling, Group Says
Wisconsin Christian counselors challenged a state rule that requires them not to offer certain therapies to gender-confused children, which might violate a March Supreme Court ruling.
In May, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed suit against Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ administration on behalf of counselors Terri Koschnick and Joy Buchman. The conservative legal group argues that Wisconsin’s rule is just like a similar Colorado law the Supreme Court ruled against in March.
Just weeks earlier in Chiles v. Salazar, the Court sided 8-1 with Colorado Christian counselor Kaley Chiles, holding that the blue state’s law curtailing her work was “regulating speech based on viewpoint.” Chiles was forced by state law to affirm transgender-identifying children even if they had requested help to embrace their biological sex.
“The government shouldn’t be dictating which viewpoints are acceptable for counselors to express in private, voluntary talk therapy sessions with clients who specifically seek out their faith based advice,” WILL Deputy Counsel Rebecca Furdek told Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The Wisconsin administrative rule bans counselors from offering certain perspectives in private, voluntary talk therapy sessions with the clients who specifically seek out their faith-based advice. This amounts to viewpoint discrimination, which the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed the ‘most blatant’ type of First Amendment violation,” Furdek continued. (Read more from “State’s Rule Cracking Down On Christian Gender Counseling Runs Afoul Of Supreme Court Ruling, Group Says” HERE)
