One might be tempted to think that these conservative Christians' animosity toward transgender people is rooted less in theology than in unquestioned traditions, irreligious dogmas, and political expedience.
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Colorado Atheists: You’re In Good Company
Eight percent of Coloradans now identify as atheists, double the figure from just a decade ago, according to the recently released Pew Religious Landscape Study. Another ten percent identify as agnostic, and a total of forty percent say they’re religiously unaffiliated.
Colorado Democrats Should Not Grant Religious People Special Legal Privileges
I'm all for women being able to get abortion services, and I'm all for people being able to afford housing. But the law should say yes to an atheist's backyard, too.
Colorado’s Past Includes Horror of Lynchings, and CO Newspapers Were Complicit
Joel Estes, namesake of Estes Park, brought five slaves into Colorado, ChloĆ© Duplessis pointed out at a recent meeting of the Black Coloradan Racial Equity Study Commission. As Elaine Tassy reports for CPR, based on a handout from Duplessis, Estes took the slaves “back to Missouri and put them on his farm, gave them some livestock and provisions to last for a year and freed them a year before Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation.”
How Religion Influenced the Colorado Klan and Other Hateful Groups
This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan’s sweep of political power in Colorado. In 1924, voters elected numerous Klan supporters, including Governor Clarence Morley and U.S. Senator Rice Means. Senator Lawrence Phipps won reelection with Klan help. “The Klan also won a majority of positions in the state House of Representatives and the state Senate as well as multiple other positions all the way down to various school boards,” Northern Colorado History reminds us. Denver’s Klan-friendly mayor, Benjamin Stapleton, won his seat the year before.
Polis, RFK, and Health-Related Conspiracy Mongering
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On Debate Stage, Gabe Evans Declined to Condemn Child Beatings
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.
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.
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.
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.