There’s now an explanation for Colorado agenda to discriminate against Christians
There is now an explanation for Colorado’s agenda to hate Christians.
In recent years, especially since homosexual Gov. Jared Polis took office nearly eight years ago, the state repeatedly has attacked Christians.
It tried to force a baker to violate his Christian faith. It tried to force a web designer to do the same. It tried, in a blatant move violating the First Amendment, to censor and dictate the speech of counselors.
It lost each time at the Supreme Court, costing the state’s taxpayers millions of dollars in wasted legal costs.
It currently is at the Supreme Court, and it expected to lose again, because it has adopted a rule that discriminates against Catholics by refusing their preschools access to a benefit program that is generally available to others.
The reason? Simple.
It’s because the “liberals” in Colorado “believe Christians deserve it.”
That’s the conclusion of commentary writer Timothy P. Carney at the Washington Examiner.
He explained, “The Democrats in charge just can’t stop unconstitutional religious discrimination.”
In fact, since several billionaires back 20 years ago decided, essentially, to buy multiple state legislative seats through extraordinary campaign donations, the state has been run by Democrats, even though the division of voters for a long time was about one-third each of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Independents recently have been gaining numbers.
The Democrats run the governor’s office, and all state agencies through his appointment of leftists, have the majority in the state House and Senate, and even have a massive majority on the state Supreme Court, where justices were so far into promoting Democrat talking points they tried, unsuccessfully, to keep President Donald Trump off the 2024 election ballot.
The commentary noted the Supreme Court now has agreed to hear the case of St. Mary, a Catholic parish against which the state is discriminating in its pre-K program.
“Mary’s sin: holding fast to Catholic teaching,” the commentary explained, “Nobody who has followed the news is surprised that Colorado is doing this, and nobody will be surprised if Colorado loses at the high court, as it has done many times before.”
He noted the state many losses at the Supreme Court.
Those losses prompted the satirists at the Babylon Bee to “quote” Chief Justice John Roberts saying, “Can you guys just not be weird this one time? You can’t make people bake gay cakes. You can’t make people make gay websites. You can’t make people call a boy a girl. I’m spending ninety percent of my life now telling you guys that you can’t force people to do gay stuff. It’s exhausting. Why can’t you be normal? Chill out, Colorado.”
The “report” then confirmed the court was thinking about “setting up a new court just to overturn whatever Colorado does.”
Earlier, constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, whose advice on the Constitution at times has guided the actions of Congress, warned the state is going down a horrible path.
“Colorado’s tourism slogan, ‘it’s our nature,’ has a menacing meaning for free speech advocates. Colorado is now arguably the most anti-free speech state in the union, pushing an array of measures attacking those with opposing social and political views,” he explained. “The irony is that the state has proved a bonanza for free speech with spectacular legal failures that reaffirmed rather than restricted the First Amendment. Now, the Democratic legislature and governor are back with new unconstitutional measures, including a requirement that lawyers not share information with federal immigration officials as a condition for filing with state courts.”
He cited yet another court case brought by the state’s anti-Christian agenda.
It’s the state’s demands that people use a person’s “chosen name” and, essentially biologically impossible pronouns. The case is on behalf of XX-XY Athletics and Born Again Used Books which protested the state’s imposition of its speech code on them.
The Examiner commentary continued, “What’s going on in Colorado? The root problem is Colorado Democrats’ near-religious dedication to an extreme separation of church and state. This separation fundamentalism is not confined to Colorado but has achieved official status at the state level there. They believe that anything touched by the state becomes a no-religion zone. Of course, they also constantly expand the reach of the state, thus constantly narrowing where religion is allowed.”
It confirmed that while discriminating against Catholics by demanding care centers accept families “regardless of, inter alia, race, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, income level, or disability,” the state “made it clear it would fund an all-black preschool, or a preschool only for ‘gender-nonconforming children.'”
“Discrimination against religion, particularly Christianity, is the modus operandi for Colorado’s government.”
The commentary said, “Freedom of religion is the first clause in the First Amendment, and so it is literally the very first right in the Bill of Rights. Religion, that is, deserves special accommodation and special consideration, according to the Constitution. The American Left sees it differently. It believes that religion has less right than any other organization.”