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(SRN NEWS) – The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning so-called “conversion therapy”.  The law at issue is one from Colorado, which bars any licensed counselor from helping anyone under the age of 18 to voluntarily abandon the homosexual lifestyle.  The question is whether the measure violates the free speech rights of counselors.  The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has upheld the Colorado statute.  Meanwhile, the 11th Circuit in Atlanta has struck down similar local bans in Florida. 

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is taking a frontline role in President Trump’s war on woke ideology in the schools.  He has ordered the agency to focus its priorities on investigating anti-Semitism, the promotion of transgenderism and DEI programs.  This week, the Education Department sent a letter to 60 colleges warning they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students. The list includes Harvard, Cornell and many others where pro-Palestinian protests led to acts of anti-Semitism. 

More major corporations are dropping Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs that critics say promote the LGBT agenda and racism.  Uber is one of the latest.  The ride-hailing service has removed the DEI section from its 2024 annual report filed last month.  Salesforce has done the same thing in its latest report.  The parent company of Jack Daniels says it will no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.  That annual survey ranks companies according to how hard they pushed the LGBT agenda. 

The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has revived an old case.  The justices have decided that the case should be reconsidered under a California law passed last year.  It aims to strengthen the claims of Holocaust survivors and their families seeking to recover stolen art.  The descendants of the Jewish woman from whom the Nazis stole the painting now live in California.  The work of art is in the hands of a museum in Spain.