There is only one appropriate answer to the question, "When should children be hit in school," and that is, "Never," a word that Evans declined to utter.
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Governing God: Why Catholic Preschools and Other Religious Groups Don’t Deserve Special Treatment
Regardless of the exact numbers, giving religious people exemptions to various laws effectively treats other people as second-class citizens.
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Erin Lee’s Transition From Concerned Mom to Anti-Trans Zealot
When I met Erin Lee and her husband in September 2022 at an event sponsored by the Independence Institute (which publishes a column of mine through Complete Colorado), the Lees generally were accepting of LGBTQ people. They believed that, in their specific case, an overzealous LGBTQ activist at school had convinced their daughter that she was transgender, when really she was just a confused and disaffected young girl. They didn’t think their case illustrated a general problem with LGBTQ people or with the LGBTQ movement.
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After the Trump Assassination Attempt, Some CO Politicians Blurred the Distinction Between Political Criticism and Incitements to Violence
Every decent American is shocked, outraged, and saddened by the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the resulting murder of a bystander and wounding of two others. The perpetrator came within maybe an inch of murdering the former president.
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Exaggerations, Half-Truths, and Lies: How CO GOP Leader Williams Wraps Bigotry in Faux-Religious Rhetoric
Williams' fearmongering follows the legacy of the Colorado Ku Klux Klan before him.
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Armstrong: The Colorado GOP’s Transgender Moral Panic
Those who have nothing productive to add to the political discourse often turn to hateful fearmongering and scapegoating against members of minority or unpopular groups.
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Rep. Ken DeGraaf Becomes Third CO Elected Official to Publicly Deny Evolution
Colorado elected officials rejecting the science of biological evolution by this point has become an embarrassment to the state.
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Colorado Rep. Scott Bottoms Rejects Science of Evolution
At a recent church-sponsored town hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado Representative and pastor Scott Bottoms rejected the science of biological evolution, calling it a hoax, Heidi Beedle reported. To my knowledge, Bottoms is the highest-ranking elected official currently serving in the state to explicitly reject evolution. He joins District 51 school board member Barbara Evanson, who, with her husband (also a pastor) penned a screed against evolution and called for the teaching of creationism in public-school science classrooms.
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No Need to Delay Important Election Reforms
Progressive Democrats in particular should want election rules to treat people equally and fairly, not entrench party privilege, and to well-express voters’ preferences.
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Can We Stop Pretending that Religious Conservatives Care About Parental Rights?
So much for “parental rights.” As various religious-conservative school board members and candidates have made abundantly clear, their aim is not to empower parents but to use Colorado’s public schools to promote their faith-based agenda.