None of them realized they were in a cult until it was too late. It started in late 1993 as a Bible study group composed of students from Messiah College in Pennsylvania. By the time it shattered in February of 1997, most of the group’s members had lost their individual identities and many of their worldly possessions. Some had lost their marriages. The leader, the man who they say slowly wove a web of control around their minds and around their lives, had lost his wife and child: they fled in the night, afraid that he might kill them.
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Backlash: Women’s History Month in a Post-Roe World
Hell hath no fury like a woman deprived of her basic rights.
A Floating Solar Array Could Help Fort Lupton Clean Its Water
After years of dealing with contaminated groundwater and an unreliable water supply, officials in Fort Lupton say a single solar project could solve both issues for the foreseeable future.
Two Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Move Closer to November Ballot
This week, the Colorado Title Board approved two ballot initiatives targeting transgender people in Colorado. “Public Athletic Programs for Minors,” which would require transgender athletes to compete according to their sex assigned at birth in school or intramural athletics, and “Prohibit Certain Medical Procedures for Minors,” which would ban gender-affirming care for anyone under 18, had their titles set during Tuesday’s meeting.
Elizabeth School District Asks Permission to Hire Non-Licensed Substitutes
Elizabeth School District Superintendent Dan Snowberger submitted a request last November asking Colorado’s Board of Education to waive the state’s licensure requirement for substitute teachers serving in the district’s public school classrooms.
Dems Defeat ‘Extreme’ Anti-Abortion Bills
This week, Democrat-controlled Colorado House committees voted down two proposed anti-abortion bills from state Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs). Bottoms’ “Personhood of Living Unborn Human Child” bill was killed by the State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Committee, and his “Require Information about Abortion Pill Reversal” bill met the same fate in the Health and Human Services Committee.
CO Lawmaker: ‘Somebody Who Has Been Raped Who Goes To Seek an Abortion Is Still Choosing To Murder a Baby’
This is a transcript of a portion of a committee hearing Monday at the Colorado Capitol on a bill, sponsored by state Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs), outlawing abortion in Colorado, even for rape and incest. In the transcript, Bottoms is questioned by Rep. Jenny Willford (D-Northglenn). Democrats on the committee killed Bottoms’ proposed law in a party-line vote, with all Republicans voting in support of the bill.
Pikes Peak Library District To Exhibit Works by Chuck Asay – Known for Racially Insensitive Cartoons
The Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is poised to open "The Names Change but Issues Stay the Same," an exhibition dedicated to the works of Chuck Asay, an editorial cartoonist whose tenure at the Colorado Springs Gazette was as notable for its longevity as it was for its divisiveness.
Leading CO Republican Says He Won’t Vote for Trump if Trump Is GOP Nominee
One of the Colorado Republican Party’s most successful campaign strategists told a right-wing radio host last week that he won’t vote for Trump if the former president wins the Republican presidential nomination and appears on the November election ballot.