Crazy Colorado
... The Centennial State, as is well known, is a weed haven. The state was the first to legalize recreational marijuana (along with Washington) in 2012...
The state went for Barack Obama in 2008 and has remained in the Democrat column ever since. The governorship has been in Democrat hands since 2007; both senators are Dems, as are the attorney general and secretary of state, and both chambers of the state legislature...
And it doesn’t like Donald Trump. The state seems to suffer from elevated TDS, as it attempted to remove Trump’s name from the 2024 presidential ballot...
Colorado also became the metastasizing node in a carcinogenic immigration system perpetrated by the Biden administration...
“As far as LGBTQ rights are concerned, we are pushing the envelope,” Dafna Michaelson Jenet, a former Colorado state legislator, told the Wall Street Journal.
That they are definitely trying to do, but their persistent, crazed efforts to strip Christians of their religious liberties in favor of LGBTQ rights are finding consistent failure before the U.S. Supreme Court...
Speaking of making you say something you don’t want to say, Colorado put into law last year something called the Kelly Loving Act, which almost instantly provoked lawsuits alleging First Amendment violations. The law criminalizes “deadnaming” (i.e., using someone’s birth name when they don’t want you to) and using unpreferred pronouns of people claiming gender transition...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear next month St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, in which a Catholic pre-K program was denied state funds because it refused to enroll families that would not support Catholic teachings on sex and gender...
The most bizarre of the Colorado cases might be Suncor v. Boulder County, which the U.S. Supreme Court heard earlier in October.
Boulder thinks it should regulate climate policy for the rest of the country. In 2018, the county filed a lawsuit against big oil companies Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil, claiming they increase the use of fossil fuels, which increases greenhouse gases, which furthers climate change, which harms the local environment...