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Copeland: Colorado vs. the First Amendment
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Commentary, gazette.com

Copeland: Colorado vs. the First Amendment

By Dr. Tom Copeland | Commentary, Denver Gazette The left in Colorado is assaulting the First Amendment, and all three branches of government are culprits. Start with the governor-appointed Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC). In a recent victory for free speech rights, website designer Lorie Smith of 303 Creative won a settlement from the CCRC to pay her $1.5 million in legal fees for defending her right to choose what messages her creative work will convey. The commission’s aggressive drive for government-mandated speech will cost taxpayers — not the commissioners — real dollars. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court put CCRC in its place when it ruled that the commission had demonstrated extreme bias against Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop because of his religious convictio...
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Copeland: Colorado’s sex-trafficking crisis, an intersection of immigration and crime
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Commentary, denvergazette.com, State

Copeland: Colorado’s sex-trafficking crisis, an intersection of immigration and crime

By Dr. Tom Copeland | Commentary, Denver Gazette Immigration and crime are two of the top issues in this November’s election, according to polls. Where those two issues intersect tragically is sex trafficking, a $150 billion global industry. According to a recent investigative report by The Free Press, sex and labor trafficking of minors in the United States has more than tripled in the past four years — at least gauging by the number who have escaped slavery. That largely coincides with the opening of the southern border. Colorado is not immune to this trend. There is “market demand” for trafficked migrants; a recent bust in Florida arrested scores of johns, not just traffickers. Investigators with Shepherd’s Watch, a nonprofit which tracks commercial sex trends and identifies po...
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Copeland: How to stop wrecking our country
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Copeland: How to stop wrecking our country

By Dr. Tom Copeland | Guest Columnist President George Washington, wearing a keffiyeh with a Palestinian flag across his shoulders? That’s what anti-Israel agitators recently did to the statue of our founding President, at the university named after him.  Protests at universities across the country are being organized and funded by anti-Israel groups. Many administrators have shown no backbone in dealing with them. But let’s add the boards of trustees, faculty, staff and parents of the agitators. Where are they? They are either completely absent, or in the case of faculty at places like Columbia, actively encouraging and supporting the protests. Yet we cannot absolve the students themselves of responsibility. They are adults, although they have often been coddled. They believ...
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