Originally published on July 23, 2025
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Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Colorado Can Still Regulate Dangerous ‘Conversion Therapy’
The state does not have to tolerate abuse of minors in order to uphold freedom of speech. Real consent still matters.
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Creationism Attempt at Charter School Illustrates Broader Antagonism Toward Science
A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, remain antagonistic to the science of biological evolution.
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Colorado Activists Use School Choice to Promote Religious Education
Many religious parents basically agree that education should help give our children the knowledge and skills they need to forge successful lives and to participate fruitfully in society. Some religious parents, though, see education as about training their children to be followers of that religion.
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Many Conservatives Now Cheer the Jackbooted Thugs They Once Warned Against
Many of the conservatives who warned me my entire life about the coming of the "jackbooted thugs" now stand on the sidelines and cheer as federal agents murder citizens in cold blood in the streets of America.
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Jason Crow Was Right to Warn Against Illegal Orders
What was these Democrats' great crime, their act of sedition, according to Trump? They pointed out the obvious: that members of the military should not follow illegal orders. This point is not remotely controversial among serious, intellectually honest people.
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A Tax-Funded Religious School in Colorado Would Undermine Reality-Based Education
Riverstone is, by design, as much an indoctrination center as a school.
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Gov. Candidate Offers No Campaign Promises, Instead Pitches ‘Unseen War’ with ‘Demons’
"I'm not here to make campaign promises," Marx assured his supporters during his announcement speech; "I'm not even here to talk much about the problem." He was there to be a leader called by God.
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Secular and Religious Education in Colorado: Which Should Parents Choose?
In short, a secular education understands people as part of the natural world, whereas a sectarian religious education envisions people, or at least God's chosen or favored people, as participants in God's divine plan for humanity.
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Parties Have Largely Switched Sides in Colorado’s Abortion Debate
Now, the Republican Party is dogmatically anti-abortion. It was not always so.