This morning, activists from Protect Kids Colorado and partnered organizations announced that their two ballot initiatives, both targeting the rights of transgender youths in Colorado, had failed to collect enough signatures to be eligible for the 2024 ballot.
While the deadline to submit signatures is on Monday, Protect Kids Colorado set an internal deadline of Wednesday, July 31st.
Four Colorado bishops representing the Catholic Church have taken a stance on multiple upcoming ballot initiatives: vocally opposing measures to protect reproductive rights and gay marriage, and supporting potential measures that would negatively impact the rights of transgender youths.
During the interview, Porter thanked Harris and Truth & Liberty, among others, for contributing to the final version of the model bill – which she said is already being circulated through multiple conservative states’ legislatures.
Later this month, Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC), one of the state’s largest and most prominent homeschool advocacy groups, is scheduled to hold its yearly Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference. The event will feature speeches by numerous activists and representatives of conservative Christian organizations.
The myth has served to advance the broader conservative culture war against LGBTQ inclusion in schools, with proponents generally positioning furries as the next stop on the slippery slope of tolerance for diverse identities.
Same-sex marriage has been a turbulent political subject across the U.S., but that’s especially true for Colorado.
Rep. Scott Bottoms, who is also a pastor at the Church at Briargate in Colorado Springs, has become notorious for making frequent inflammatory statements, including on abortion and LGBTQ people.
Now that they have received approval from the courts, the initiatives have until early August to collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot – something which the initiatives’ advocates say will be a challenge of its own.
During the rally, one homeschool advocate likened CHEC’s fight for homeschool freedom to the civil rights movement to end legalized racial discrimination.
