In a time when the government claims to celebrate diversity and inclusion, one state has made it crystal clear: some beliefs are no longer welcome. The state of Colorado is not just attempting to police professional standards in therapy. It is actively criminalizing a core tenet of the Christian faith — repentance.

Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor in Colorado, didn’t set out to start a national legal firestorm. She simply wanted to help people. As a Christian, she believes in the power of transformation — that people are more than their urges, more than their past, more than their feelings. She believes that healing is possible, that change is real, and that Jesus Christ is still in the business of making people new. But for the state of Colorado, those beliefs aren’t just outdated — they’re dangerous.

Under current law, counselors like Chiles are prohibited from speaking with minors in a way that might affirm their biological sex or guide them away from an LGBT identity — even if the client asks for that guidance. In practical terms, this means that if a 16-year-old Christian teenager sits down in a counseling session and says, “I want to honor God with my body and live in accordance with biblical truth,” Kaley Chiles is legally required to stay silent. If she dares to answer — if she offers biblical counsel that encourages repentance or self-restraint — she faces the loss of her license, fines, and professional ruin.

Let that sink in: the government has not only censored speech — it has criminalized discipleship.

This is not about safety. It’s not about protecting kids from abuse or therapy malpractice. It’s about punishing one worldview while promoting another. Colorado’s law does not ban all counseling related to gender identity — it bans one specific direction. If a young person wants to change their gender, explore transition, or embrace an LGBT identity, the state celebrates that journey. But if the same young person wants to resist those impulses and live according to their faith? The state bars the door.

What we’re witnessing is the establishment of a new state religion — one where self-autonomy reigns, where feelings are sacrosanct, and where suggesting that someone’s desires might be out of alignment with truth is heresy.

Let’s call it what it is: a law that forbids biblical repentance is a law that bans the gospel.

Counseling should be a place of trust — a sacred space where people can wrestle with life’s deepest questions, seek healing, and find clarity. But in Colorado, that space has been hijacked. The government now sits in the therapy room, handing Christian counselors a script that only affirms what the state has deemed acceptable. This isn’t compassion — it’s coercion.

Imagine a teenager addicted to pornography or suffering gender confusion. They don’t want surgery or hormone blockers. They want to live in alignment with their faith, their values, and their biology. So they seek out a Christian counselor for guidance. But that counselor, under state law, is muzzled. She cannot help the client walk the path they came in asking for. That’s not freedom. That’s spiritual tyranny.

And it’s a tyranny with a price. The state-sanctioned “solutions” often involve puberty blockers, surgeries, and life-altering treatments. These procedures come with emotional scars and irreversible consequences. When the only legal option is affirmation — never caution, never resistance — we’ve created a system where consent is an illusion and alternative voices are silenced.

Make no mistake: this battle is not just legal or political. It’s spiritual. Because at the core of the Christian message is this: Repent, and believe the gospel. It is the first step of faith. The door to healing. The road to salvation. And Colorado wants that door closed — locked from the outside.

Why? Because repentance implies that something is wrong. That we are not the final authority over our bodies, our choices, or our identities — that God is. And for a culture that worships the self, that’s unacceptable.

Colorado has crossed a line — one that separates religious liberty from government intrusion, one that protects conscience from control. Kaley Chiles is standing in that gap. She is not just defending her right to speak, but the right of every Christian counselor, parent, teacher, and pastor to speak truth without fear. Her case, Chiles v. Colorado, now heading to the U.S. Supreme Court, could shape the future of faith and freedom in America.

This is not just about Kaley. It’s about every young person who wants to live in line with their biblical convictions — and every professional who dares to help them do so.

If this law is upheld, what’s next? Will pastors be told they cannot preach Romans 1 or 1 Corinthians 6? Will Christian schools be shut down for teaching that God created us male and female? Will churches lose tax status for counseling their members according to Scripture?

That’s why the Church must not be silent.

This is not the time to retreat or remain neutral. This is a defining moment. A moment when the gospel itself — the message of repentance and redemption — is under legal threat. If the state can dictate what a counselor must say in private, how long before it dictates what a pastor can preach in public?

We are told to speak the truth in love — and in times like this, silence is neither.

Let us pray for Kaley Chiles. Let us pray for the Supreme Court. Let us pray for a nation that is rapidly losing sight of its foundational freedoms.

And let us never forget: the gospel is not hate speech. It is hope speech.

Let us preach it while we still can.