{"id":475,"date":"2019-02-04T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/?p=475"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:43:14","slug":"475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2019\/02\/04\/475\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion Therapy and Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Spring the Janus Forum held a debate about restricting speech on college campuses. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonathan Rauch, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic &amp; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute argued it should. In the debate, Rauch discussed the marketplace of ideas as it relates to progress for the LGBTQ+ community. \u00a0However, a recent court decision in Tampa sided with a christian advocacy group in determining that a ban on conversion therapy violates the free speech component of the first amendment&#8211; a clear source of tension in the argument made by Rauch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2019\/02\/02\/judge-says-tampa-conversion-therapy-ban-violates-first-amendment-free-speech-rights\/?utm_term=.e41c7bf5240f\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is where you can read the Washington Post article on this subject, and you can find the court decision\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lc.org\/013019TampaPIOrder.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0If you missed the debate on free speech or need a refresher you can watch it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/03\/05\/free-speech-debate-coverage\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also read Rauch&#8217;s work\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/03\/28\/jonathan-rauch-on-free-speech\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Spring the Janus Forum held a debate about restricting speech on college campuses. \u00a0Jonathan Rauch, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic &amp; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute argued it should. In the debate, Rauch discussed the marketplace of ideas as it relates to progress for the LGBTQ+ community. \u00a0However, a recent court decision in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2019\/02\/04\/475\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conversion Therapy and Free Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}