Conversion Therapy Ban Is Really Just Banning Biblical Counseling
Just last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in, Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could have major implications for faith-based counseling. In 2019, Colorado passed a law that outright banned conversion therapy, which opponents argue is harmful to the patient.
First, let us go over what conversion therapy really is, and then what opponents claim it is.
Opponents of sexual purity have dubbed Christian counseling, “conversion therapy,” which is merely the process of helping a minor overcome their same-sex attractions and desires. Opponents claim that the procedure of conversion therapy often includes electro-shock therapy and other methods that are harmful to the individual.
This, however, is not the case at all. Rarely are cases discovered in which an individual goes through such a horrific process of “therapy.” The reality is that godless activists, who hate all that is good, have worked to paint faith-based therapy as cruel and harmful all because Christian counselors have respectfully and delicately worked with their patients to overcome harmful decisions.
Keep in mind, the same people painting Christians as hurtful because of words used during a therapy session are the same people who gleefully celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk. These are the people who have decided how therapy is define according to state law, and who can practice counseling as a profession.
Activists rest their view on the basis that people are “born gay,” which is not true at all. What is true, is that humans are born into sin. We accept Jesus Christ as our savior to be released from the bondage of sin, but people are not born with what many have been led to believe is the “gay gene,” a term that has been around since the 1990s—becoming widely used in the early 2000s.
Since then, activists have worked undermine faith-based counseling with accusations of harmful methods that are not used in Christian counseling.
Colorado’s conversion therapy ban has become the impetus behind the challenge that is going before the Supreme Court. While some states, like New Hampshire, banned the practice around the same time, they were much more discreet with their language in the bill; describing the practice of electroshock therapy in slightly more detail, causing legislators to have a visceral reaction. New Hampshire’s bill, however, did include subtle language that included prohibitions on Christians and other religions from providing any counseling that would try and help minors leave their same-sex desires behind them.
Colorado’s ban spoke plainly, defining “conversion therapy” to specifically include any attempts to change the behavior of a person’s “same sex attraction.”
Even if the method of electroshock therapy were used, a state could very simply include language in their law to ban that method from being used. That, however, is not the case. States have taken aim directly at counseling, the simple act of speaking to a patient about their sexual struggles and nothing more.
In an age when culture demands that Christians keep their religion to themselves, it is interesting that the very same people making those demands force the LGBT pride flag into classrooms, paint public sidewalks with their symbols, have more than a month of each year dedicated to celebrating their sexual desires, and push their extremely degrading books in public school libraries. They were even successful in getting the Supreme Court to recognize a so-called right to “gay marriage,” which does exist anywhere in the Constitution.
This Supreme Court case is not even about prohibiting a so-called “right.” It is about protecting the ban on Christians from providing help to those who desperately need Jesus in their lives, and are now being unconstitutionally prohibited. It is a clear violation of the freedom of speech. We can confidently say that given similar rulings in the past.
We want the Court to decide in favor of Chiles; to declare Colorado’s law null and void, causing all other state laws to see the same fate
Attacks on Christianity and our faith are increasing and will continue to increase. Colorado is not the end of the fight, and Christian counseling is one of many coming to the Supreme Court. America’s Constitution was not meant to govern a people whose faith is not unified. It was meant to govern a people who understood that liberty is not defined by what a person can do, but by what they should do.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court seems to be more on the side of the Constitution in recent years. But we still need to pray that Colorado decides justly on this issue.