APOSTGAYCY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED: Appeals Court Upholds Calif. Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy for LGBT Youth.

Wednesday’s decision to not rehear the suit was not unanimous, as three Ninth Circuit justices joined a dissent written by Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain.

“The State of California, in the statute at issue here, has prohibited licensed professionals from saying certain words to their clients. By labeling such speech as ‘conduct,’ the panel’s opinion has entirely exempted such regulation from the First Amendment,” wrote O’Scannlain.

“In so doing, the panel contravenes recent Supreme Court precedent, ignores established free speech doctrine, misreads our cases, and thus insulates from First Amendment scrutiny California’s prohibition–in the guise of a professional regulation–of politically unpopular expression.”

Earlier: When Government Keeps Teens from Seeing the Therapist.