Posted on 06/12/2008 7:45:46 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
You might have heard about the Colorado "Restroom Chaos" law signed by Governor Bill Ritter a couple of weeks ago. It allows men who "think" they're women or "feel" like women to use the ladies restrooms and locker rooms. But apparently the law had some more bad stuff in the fine print: politically incorrect Biblical truth has been outlawed in Colorado outside the walls of the church.
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So, does that mean that bookstores like Barnes and Noble can’t sell something like the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
This is NOT going to go over well with Archbishop Charles Chaput. And Bill Ritter is going to lose the battle with him.
I’d buy tickets to that fight.
Can someone please wake me when the revolution starts?
I predict a ‘fast-track’ court case on this. To me, a layman, it appears to violate the “Freedom of Speech” clause in the Bill of Rights. Coming on the heels of British Columbia, Canada’s Steyn/Maclean ‘Human Rights Tribunal trial’, this shows how this kind of free speech restrictions can come to the USofA.
District after district that had voted Republican for as long as anyone could remember, suddenly had Democrats in the legislature representing them. The Democrats took both houses of the legislature and the governors mansion in a state which routinely votes Republican.
Basically these four rich Democratic Party activists bought the government of Colorado.
This absurd bill introduced by avowed Lesbian member of the legislature is just one, of what I fear is going to be a steady stream of terrible left wing legislation, intended to pay back those multimillionaire/activists who financed their campaign.
NOTE: On of the four gay activist, multimillionaire supporter of gay causes Tim Gill is one of the leaders of a group of rich Gay activists who have been targeting for defeat any Republican who dares to stand up to the Gay lobby.
Me too.
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This has to hit the courts sooner than later!
LOL. The Colorado Supreme Court is a joke. They pretty much do whatever the ACLU tells them to do in its Amicus Briefs. It's been YEARS since I remember even a middle of the road decision from them on a major public policy case. It is one of the most stridently partisan courts in the nation.
It’s what you get, after both political parties go libertine for a few decades. As much as propaganda has been telling us otherwise for a long time, conservatism does not include liberal social behaviors and romantic laws to crush families.
” The Colorado Supreme Court is a joke.”
Our SCOTUS will be a joke is Obambi packs it with lefties.
Freedom to practice one’s religion is enshrined in the Constitution, but if the left decides it’s not, they will use any cortortion of illogic to override it.
Remember, to them the Constitution is not a document of laws, but a merely a blueprint subject to change.
At a McDonalds restaurant in Lipa City, Batangas Province (2003), a church group was enjoying some fellowship after the evening services. I was present. Some of us church men noticed a cross-dressed sodomite (very common on the streets in Lipa City and all over the PI) wandering around and circling ever closer to the women's restroom.
The church men were concerned because some of their wives and daughters were even then in the restroom.
Then IT did it! It slipped into the women's restroom (that is, the sodomite did). Three church men ran to the uniformed guard at the entrance and reported it, demanding that the manager (a female), enter the restroom and expel the sodomite. Her response was, “Well, let's not get excited . . . let's talk about it.”
The church ladies and their daughters in the restroom noticed the pervert and quickly got out of the restroom. It seems that none of the other women in the restroom (it was crowded, and many women were waiting in line at the stalls, according to the church ladies) even gave it a second thought! Very many Filipinos are conditioned by seeing cross-dressed, made-up sodomites around them day-in-and-day-out.
We managed to get the female manager and the male uniformed guard to the restroom door (10 minutes it took), and while they were standing there, the pervert pranced out. The guard smirked, but did nothing. The sodomite casually pressed through the long lines at the counter, to the front door, and wiggled out, knowing he would not be hindered.
We insisted on filing a formal complaint with McDonalds in the Philippines, and were given a mailing address and a phone number.
One of the church men was a captain (now a major)in the Philippines Air Force (PAF), and took up the task of writing to the heads at McDonalds.
When the response came back, the PAF Captain read the response to the church. The whole letter could be summed up in the words, “Our company believes in equal opportunity and equal access for all.”
Folks, THAT is coming to America, to a McDonalds, a Burger King, a Wendys, a Dairy Queer near you.
It’s not just enshrined, it’s FIRST!
Colorado is also a CCW State. Imagine the liberal crybabbies once a woman blows a pervert away for attacking her in a public restroom. My wife wouldn’t hesitate.
Ping me early. I need time to find my pitchfork.
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True, but they lack venue in the case, since the first ammendment is a Federal issue.
Actually, The CO Supreme Court will probably hear the issue before a federal court does. If someone is convicted under this law, it will be in a Colorado Court, as it is a Colorado law. The appeal from the conviction will, therefore, be to the Colorado Supreme Court. Then, the losing party would have an appeal to the US Supreme Court after the Colorado Supreme Court heartily endorses the jailing of Christians for reading the Bible in public.
Theoretically, the Colorado Supreme Court is required to hear and rule on Federal First Amendment issues before it. But in practice, they will only rule to apply the first amendment to things like burning flags or to rule vouchers unconstitutional. This Court will never rule that Christians have free speech rights. But they will probably have first crack at the issue.
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