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Enos: Colorado’s war on parental rights isn’t over—it’s escalating

Christian Home Educators of Colorado, Approved, Commentary, State / June 5, 2025 / 75th Colorado Legislature, Constitutional rights, Education policy, Free Speech, Governor Jared Polis, HB25-1312, Homeschool Advocacy, Parental Rights, religious liberty, SB25-276

Colorado is on a roll. Violating religious liberty and compelling free speech are two issues that Colorado Courts have already been reprimanded for. Our Courts lost two civil rights lawsuits – Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – in addition to being overturned by the United States Supreme Court in the decision that was supposed to throw Donald Trump off the 2024 Colorado Presidential Election ballot. Now, we are doing it all over again.

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Garbo: A Christian conservative’s honest, loving perspective on LGBTQIA+ and sin

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, National, Top Stories / June 5, 2025 / Biblical Worldview, christianity, Conservative Commentary, Faith, Freedom Of Conscience, LGBTQIA, Love And Truth, Moral Conviction, Pride Month, religious liberty

I’m a Christian. I’m a Conservative. I believe the Bible is the Word of God, not a suggestion, not a cultural relic, but the truth. And, though it is admittedly very difficult to do at times, I also believe deeply in loving my neighbor – all of them – unconditionally. That includes the LGBTQIA+ community.

Let’s be honest: Pride Month brings up tension, especially for those of us who don’t support the ideology or the prurient displays often celebrated in public forums.

But disagreement is not hate. Conviction is not fear. And rejecting a behavior doesn’t mean rejecting a person.

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The COvid Chronicles May 16–23, 2020: Deaths dipped—but the definition got slippery

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, State, Top Stories / May 31, 2025 / Civil Liberties, Colorado economy, Coroner Reports, Data Privacy, Education Disruption, Government overreach, Governor Jared Polis, Lauren Boebert, Mail Voting, Medical Privacy, Pandemic Policies, Public Health Overreach, religious liberty, Small Business Impact, The COvid Chronicles

More than two months into government-mandated shutdowns, Coloradans had lost patience—and begun reclaiming their fearlessness. After surrendering jobs, shuttering schools, isolating loved ones, and forfeiting springtime rites of faith and family, many started asking the obvious: What was all this really for?

Yes, people had gotten sick. Yes, some had died—mostly the elderly and already ill. But the fear campaign pushed by Gov. Jared Polis, unelected bureaucrats, and a compliant media no longer matched what Coloradans saw with their own eyes.

The warm May sun only strengthened their resolve. As COVID numbers flatlined and trust in “death counts” crumbled, clear-eyed citizens began asking hard questions—and the answers were ugly. Behind the briefings and sanitized soundbites, the state was quietly reclassifying deaths, inflating the data, and overriding doctors who dared to dissent.

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Hunt: Governor signs laws advancing trans agenda, sparking constitutional challenge

TownHall.com, Approved, Commentary, State / May 25, 2025 / 75th Colorado Legislature, Child protection, Constitutional rights, Free Speech, Gender Ideology, Government overreach, Governor Jared Polis, HB25-1309, HB25-1312, Parental Rights, religious liberty, Transgender

Just as a refreshing wave of reality-based, commonsense policy seems to be sweeping the nation, Colorado lawmakers are doubling down on “trans” policies that can only be described as absurd, unconscionable and unconstitutional.

For those of us in Colorado who still believe in parental rights and free speech, the speed at which our state is descending into a dystopian nightmare is terrifying.

Here in Colorado, transactivists control the State House, the Senate, and the governor’s seat. Whatever they want to do, however far they want to push the envelope, they can, and they did this legislative cycle. Some of the bills are so radical that even California’s governor refused to sign similar legislation.

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Christian Camp IdRaHaJe sues Colorado over forced gender policy: ‘Let us uphold biblical truth’

National Catholic Register, Approved, Local / May 16, 2025 / Alliance Defending Freedom, Camp IdRaHaJe, Children’s Camps, Christian Organizations, First amendment, Gender Identity Policy, Parental Rights, Religious Exemptions, religious liberty, Transgender Policy

A Christian summer camp network is suing the Colorado government over a state rule allowing males who identify as girls to be given access to girls’ showers, dressing areas, and sleeping facilities.

Camp IdRaHaJe — which separates private facilities on the basis of sex rather than self-asserted “gender identity” — filed the federal lawsuit against Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood on Monday.

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Benson: Kamala Harris sidesteps free speech concerns while advocating for top-down control

Approved, Commentary, National, TownHall.com / October 24, 2024 / authoritarian government, Elections, Free Speech, Kamala Harris, religious liberty

In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris lamented America’s divisive politics, arguing that her desire to ‘turn the page’ is really about “closing the page” — whatever that means — on “an era that suggests Americans are divided.” It’s true that Americans are divided.

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