The Heritage Foundation claims that books in Elizabeth School District were suppressed due to being "sexually explicit." But that is just not true of some of the books.

Colorado Public Radio would never publish a headline proclaiming that a CPR journalist “searches for demons.” Yet somehow, the standards are different when it comes to other mystical beliefs.

If you look at the facts surrounding the case and at the books themselves, it becomes obvious that the Elizabeth School District targeted these particular books at the behest of ideologues largely to "protect" children from content ideologically at odds with the views of those making the complaints.

The belief that UAPs are demonic forces is nutty, but not in itself especially dangerous. But for evangelicals like Lauren Boebert, it stems from a broader belief about a demon-haunted world.

The state does not have to tolerate abuse of minors in order to uphold freedom of speech. Real consent still matters.

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.