Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In March, with an 8-1 majority vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, quote,

counseling conversations are speech and that states cannot silence viewpoints in the counseling room.

The majority included all the justices, but Justice Katanji and that states cannot silence viewpoints in the counseling room.

The majority included all the justices, but Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who claimed in her dissent that states should be able to use, and I quote here, police powers to establish

and enforce the standards of care that bind medical professionals, including what she

called professional medical speech.

And apparently, for Justice Jackson, that power should also include the ability to determine

what should count as scientific consensus, given the collapse of consensus on this issue of so-called

gender-affirming care. However, in a concurring opinion to the majority decision,

liberal justices Kagan and Sotomayor noted that the Colorado law was not viewpoint neutral. Had it

been, they said, it would have raised a different and more difficult question. In another instance

last summer, Justice Sotomayor did not agree with a Trump administration policy, but she also

believed it was not the place of the

court to decide. Justice Jackson, on the other hand, described her appointment to the Supreme Court

as her opportunity to, and I quote, tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, end quote.

What's happening on the court is an example of an ongoing fissure between

liberals and progressives on both the political and ideological left in America. As Colson

Center senior fellow, Dr. Glenn Sunshine previously described, part of this difference is that

standpoint epistemology, the liberal idea that each has our own truth from our own perspective,

has now devolved into expressive individualism. The idea that each has our own truth from our own perspective has now devolved into expressive individualism, the idea that our truth should be imposed on everyone else as a matter

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