{"id":43876,"date":"2026-04-01T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/michigan-ban-on-conversion-therapy-could-be-dismissed-amid-scotus-ruling-catholic-charities-suit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:40:00","slug":"michigan-ban-on-conversion-therapy-could-be-dismissed-amid-scotus-ruling-catholic-charities-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/michigan-ban-on-conversion-therapy-could-be-dismissed-amid-scotus-ruling-catholic-charities-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan ban on \u2018conversion therapy\u2019 could be dismissed amid SCOTUS ruling, Catholic Charities suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit brought by several Catholic Charities affiliates in Michigan over that state\u2019s ban on so-called \u201cconversion therapy\u201d could see the controversial rule dismissed in the wake of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling on March 31. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/world\/us\/supreme-court-strikes-down-colorado-ban-on-conversion-therapy-for-minors\">In a near-unanimous ruling<\/a> in the Chiles v. Salazar case, the high court found that Colorado violated the First Amendment by telling therapists that they could not help young people struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria. <\/p>\n<p>The Colorado law represented \u201can egregious assault\u201d on U.S. free speech protections, the court said, holding that the rule \u201c[struck] at the heart of the First Amendment\u2019s protections.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Michigan lawsuit challenges similar law<\/h2>\n<p>A similar lawsuit brought by several Catholic Charities affiliates in Michigan could be decided favorably for the charity groups after the Supreme Court decision, a religious liberty attorney told EWTN News on April 1. <\/p>\n<p>Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said the lawsuit brought by Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale counties against the state of Michigan has been on hold since January. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering originally ruled in favor of the Catholic charity group in its challenge of a Michigan law prohibiting \u201cconversion therapy\u201d for minors. <\/p>\n<p>The Catholic charities offer a variety of therapy services, including for \u201cissues of gender identity and sexuality.\u201d Goodrich said the judge granted a temporary injunction against the Michigan law in January and then stayed the suit while awaiting the decision of the Chiles case. <\/p>\n<p>Goodrich said the Supreme Court ruling in Chiles was \u201creally helpful.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it confirms that Michigan\u2019s law is unconstitutional,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to talk to Michigan and then we\u2019re going to try to get a final ruling from the district court.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the Catholic Charities groups emailed the Michigan government shortly after the Supreme Court ruling on March 31. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a phone call next week and see what they plan to do,\u201d Goodrich said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it paused the case, the court ordered the parties, within 14 days of the Chiles decision, to talk to each other and then jointly tell the court what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Goodrich argued that the March 31 ruling \u201cdefinitely\u201d applies to the Michigan suit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe laws in Colorado and Michigan are almost verbatim identical, and Michigan itself has said that the laws and cases are nearly identical, and that whatever happens in Chiles will happen in Michigan,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Chiles case, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson the lone dissent from the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>She argued that the First Amendment has \u201cfar less salience\u201d where medical regulations are concerned, though the majority opinion said that the Colorado law\u2019s targeting of medical officials \u201cchanges nothing\u201d regarding free speech precedent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution does not protect the right of some to speak freely; it protects the right of all,\u201d the majority wrote. \u201cIt safeguards not only popular ideas; it secures, even and especially, the right to voice dissenting views.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit brought by several Catholic Charities affiliates in Michigan over that state\u2019s ban on so-called \u201cconversion therapy\u201d could see the controversial rule dismissed in the wake of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling on March 31. 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