Anti-Christian leftists in Colorado’s government tried to take over the speech of a highly respected cake artist and force him to parrot their LGBT fantasies.
They lost, at the Supreme Court, and Colorado taxpayers were on the hook for the losing fight.
Then those same anti-Christian leftists in Colorado’s government tried to take over the speech of a popular website designer and force her to preach their LGBT ideologies.
They lost again, at the Supreme Court, and Colorado taxpayers again were on the hook.
It happened again just days ago, when the Supreme Court struck down Colorado’s “law” that told counselors they could promote the LGBT ideologies to clients, but could not tell them of the option of learning to live their lives in the sex they were born.
That Colorado officials wildly and incorrectly characterized as “conversation therapy” as counselors were not “converting” anyone, just discussing with clients their choices and options.
The high court had no trouble identifying the state’s agenda for viewpoint discrimination, which is not allowed.
Even as they cases were argued, the state attacked Christian organizations in a number of other ways, and repeatedly struck out.
So the state’s newest assault on faith could be strike six, or seven, or eight already.
In this fight, the state has banned companies from speaking truthfully about the biological differences between men and women.
This war focuses on the transgenderism that leftists, including Joe Biden, promoted for years but fails scientifically as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change.
It is the ADF that announced it is representing a Colorado athletic apparel company and a Christian bookstore with notices of appeal after a district court’s politicized decision ordering XX-XY Athletics and Born Again Used Books not to be truthful.
“Colorado continues to place itself on the wrong side of the law by forcing Coloradans to speak against their conscience,” said ADF lawyer Hal Frampton. “As the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed this week when it ruled against another Colorado law in Chiles v. Salazar, the government shouldn’t be able to censor speech or force people to speak views they disagree with. We are asking the appeals court to protect the ability of Coloradans to openly express their beliefs on a hotly debated issue.”
Colorado law, in fact, restricts the ability of people “to speak truthfully about the biological differences between men and women.”
In that Chiles decision, the high court confirmed, “The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth. However well-intentioned, any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault on both of those commitments.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a homosexual married to a man, signed into law a change to the beleaguered Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act to define “gender expression” to include a person’s “chosen name” and “how an individual chooses to be addressed.”
The law purports to demand that businesses use biologically incorrect language when interacting with customers, in ads and so on.
The offense by XX-XY Athletics is that the company refers to male athletes and male customers as male.
The family owned bookstore is being forced to violate the owner’s Christian beliefs by calling men women, and vice versa.
The state’s earlier catastrophes have included the attack of Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, and the web designer behind 3030 Creative.
The counselor’s case was brought against the state on behalf of Kaley Chiles.
