Chiles v. Salazar · ¶29

The question before us is a narrow one. Ms. Chiles does not question that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy has some constitutionally sound applications. See Brief for Petitioner 53. She does not take issue with the State's effort to prohibit what she herself calls “long-abandoned, aversive” physical interventions. Id., at 10. Instead, Ms. Chiles stresses that she provides only talk therapy, employing no physical techniques or medications. Yet, she argues, Colorado's law still applies to her, prescribing what she may say in “voluntary counseling conversations” with her clients. Id., at 50. And because that application of the law strikes at the heart of the First Amendment's protections for free speech, she contends, it warrants considerably more searching scrutiny than the rational-basis review the Tenth Circuit applied in this case or the intermediate-scrutiny review some other…

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