The Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado's Counseling Law, A Tragic Assisted Suicide in Spain, Easter and Christian Morality, and the NBA's Speech Police
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court Rules Colorado's law governing conversion therapy violates free speech. In Spain the real-life example of how assisted suicide harms the vulnerable. John and Maria talk Easter and the connection between the miracles and morality of Christ. And Jaden Ivey loses his spot on an NBA roster because of his outspoken faith.
Segment 1 – News Headlines
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Chiles Decision
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How the State Failed Noelia
Segment 2 - Easter Apologetics
Segment 3 - Jaden Ivey and the NBA Speech Police
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
| 0:07.6 | Today we're going to talk about a Supreme Court case that affirms the right of even Christian counselors to help their patients. |
| 0:14.7 | We're also going to talk about a tragic case of assisted dying in Spain. |
| 0:19.0 | We have a lot to get to this week. |
| 0:20.6 | We're glad you're with us on this |
| 0:22.0 | Easter week. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for Christian |
| 0:28.8 | Worldview, I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. John, I want to |
| 0:33.8 | jump right into some big news out of the Supreme Court this week. There was a decision handed down in the Child's case. |
| 0:40.9 | This came from nowhere but Colorado, where there had been a proposed law that would ban what Colorado legislators called conversion therapy, which has all kinds of ironies in the fact that that's what they called this. |
| 0:54.5 | But essentially, Colorado tried to pass a law saying that if licensed counselors in Colorado |
| 1:00.7 | wanted to help patients who came in saying something related to their, you know, maybe I feel |
| 1:06.2 | uncomfortable in my body or I have same sex desires that I'd like to, you know, work around or figure out |
| 1:14.4 | how to deal with, that anything other than outright, you know, affirmation or celebration, |
| 1:19.8 | basically to administer therapy to such a person would be illegal. |
| 1:24.1 | And the Supreme Court this week said, nope, you can't do that Colorado because that |
| 1:28.2 | violates the first amendment. You know, we talked about this case when it came up and you are |
| 1:33.5 | always, I think, rightly reticent to give predictions about where this would go. But were you |
| 1:39.6 | surprised or relieved to hear this decision this week? Well, there's a handful of people that I take cues from, and they were all pretty confident in this case, |
| 1:48.0 | because it really is a kind of a straightforward example of compelled speech and prevented speech, |
| 1:53.6 | so it violated the First Amendment. |
| 1:55.7 | I think in the decision, they talked more about prevented speech in the sense that, you know, |
| 2:00.7 | you can't say to someone, |
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