Colorado Republicans have selected a Christian church pastor and a Christian ministry leader to run off for their party’s nomination for governor this year.
The selection by 2,000 delegates at the GOP conference recently of Scott Bottoms and Victor Marx to run off for the gubernatorial nomination creates a stunning opportunity for state residents to change the direction their leaders have been pushing them.
After all, the current governor, multi-millionaire Jared Polis, proudly brags about his homosexual lifestyle. And a key Democrat wanting to replace Polis is Phil Weiser, the state’s attorney general, who has been at the forefront of a long list of state attacks on Christians in the state.
Officials there under Polis’ extremist agenda have attacked Christian counselors, and are in the process of launching a second assault, Christian web designers, Christian bakers, Christian camps, Christian preschools and more.
The state has been leftist to an extreme since several billionaires met, agreed to take over the state’s politics and donated thousands strategically to put the Democratic Party in control of the governor’s office and legislature.
They’ve made abortion a state constitutional “right,” have worked to change “taxes” into “fees” so they could be raised in violation of a state constitutional limit, even schemed to try to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. (That plan was shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court).
The anti-Christian antics even drew the attention of one of the nation’s best-known satirists, the experts at the Babylon Bee. The commentary came after the state’s most recent loss, among a multitude of losses, at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Bee to sarcastically explain the Supreme Court “issued an official statement … begging the state of Colorado to please just be normal for once.”
The satire “quoted” Chief Justice John Roberts: “Can you guys just not be weird this one time? You can’t make people bake gay cakes. You can’t make people make gay websites. You can’t make people call a boy a girl. I’m spending ninety percent of my life now telling you guys that you can’t force people to do gay stuff. It’s exhausting. Why can’t you be normal? Chill out, Colorado.”
The “report” then confirmed the court was thinking about “setting up a new court just to overturn whatever Colorado does.”
Complete Colorado noted the recent GOP convention and pointed out Bottoms, a state representative and pastor of a Colorado Springs church, promised, “This is our year. I’m going to reclaim parenthood and childhood for all Coloradans. Two sexes, no genders. We will reclaim safety and security. We will tear down the Venezuelan cartel. Sheriffs will work with ICE.”
The second candidate is Victor Marx, a Christian ministry leader and former marine, who promised adherence to the First and Second Amendments, rebuilding infrastructure, and keeping boys out of girls’ sports.
“Colorado does not need another politician in this stage of the game,” Marx said. “We’ve lost too well and too long as Republicans and this year it changes.”
Also possibly on the GOP ballot might be state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who opted to petition her way on the ballot. She is awaiting signature confirmation.
Marx is leader of All Things Possible. It doesn’t throw Hollywood galas for the rich, it doesn’t boast of its influence in Washington, or the U.N., or other venues of secular power.
Instead, as his website documents, he fights “traffickers and pedophiles” and rescues trafficked children, while delivering 65,000 comfort toys to children in displaced persons camps, organizing men to “embody strength, courage and responsibility,” providing “housing, supplies and clothing for women who have been the victims of sex trafficking,” and much more.
His book, “The Dangerous Gentleman,” talks about the need for bravery and responsibility, and describes his work inside war zones and other of the world’s “most dangerous places.”
His target, he says, is to explain “what manhood and Christianity should look like in our day.”
He’s been described by columnists as a black belt artist and former Marine, of holding the world record in speed for disarming someone holding a gun to his head – at 4 seconds.
Bottom is a U.S. Navy veteran and pastor of Church at Briargate in Colorado Sprigns.
He also represents parts of Colorado Springs as the state representative for District 15.
He’s described as among the most conservative members of the state legislature and has described both abortion and transgender ideologies as “demonic.”
Leftists in the media repeatedly have attacked him for spreading “conspiracy theories” like the work by Planned Parenthood to sell body parts of unborn babies.
He’s also alleged that Colorado’s government is infested with pedophile rings.
