This decision applies only to talk therapy, not forms of "conversion therapy" that involve physical interventions (which are really abuse). It does not strike down Colorado's law on its face. Actually, it does not invalidate anything—it just holds that this kind of law is subject to strict scrutiny.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
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Timely choice!

And balance!

'You Are Safe Now': Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral Twenty years ago, the brutal killing of a young gay man in Laramie, Wyo., drew national attention and led to an expansion of a federal hate-crimes law.

Not only did the Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde speak the gospel to Donald Trump, she also presided over the interment of Matthew Shepard in the Washington National Cathedral in 2018, 20 years after his murder. www.npr.org/2018/10/26/6...

Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights Public employee collective bargaining rights have been restored by a Dane County judge, who ruled that several sections of Wisconsin's controversial law known as Act 10 are unconstitutional.

Act 10 has finally been ruled unconstitutional! 🎉 In 2011, Governor Scott Walker “dropped the bomb” on public employees in Wisconsin with Act 10, which stripped them of their collective bargaining rights. That legislation, plus other attacks on the public good, got me involved in politics.