JoCo Cities Comply With Kansas AG Kobach On Conversion Therapy Ban

Actually, the legal ruling behind this one has resonated in KC and across the nation. 

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Roeland Park and Prairie Village recently amended conversion therapy bans both cities had on the books in order to comply with a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Earlier this summer, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent letters to the two northeast Johnson County cities and Lawrence, giving them 60 days to strike down city laws that ban conversion therapy — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity . . .

In the letters, Kobach gave the cities 60 days to change their rules, citing the federal court’s ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, which declared a similar Colorado law was in violation of First Amendment freedoms. While many jurisdictions around the country have banned the practice in order to prohibit the conduct, the Supreme Court determined that limitations on conversion therapy only limit one viewpoint. In the letters, Kobach said that the cities’ local ordinances engage in “viewpoint discrimination.”

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Two JoCo cities amend conversion therapy bans after Kansas AG demands change

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