Once any church collects signatures for ANY POLITICAL BALLOT, their non-profit status should be immediately revoked. They have become Political Action Committees which are prohibited from attaining tax-exempt status. MAKE THESE CHURCHES PAY! The U.S. loses $$$BILLIONS in tax dollars due to these organizations masquerading as churches and/or preaching hate from their pulpits.
Transgender plague?! I bet most Coloradans would be more concerned with the evangelical plague that is corrupting our government and bossing people around. I would love to see this backfire and mobilize massive turnout against these ballot initiatives.
They need to run "church lady" ads to get people to turn out and fight the plague of the Genitally Obsessed Puritans (GOP).
Holy fuck! Doesn't the Catholic Church have better things to do than hop on the bigot bus to Hell? Fingers crossed that the good people of Colorado will see this for what it is and vote it into oblivion.
In case there was ANY doubt that these right wing God botherers want to TOTALLY eradicate the trans community. When you call something a "plague" you truly reveal your cards.
Great. "Protect Kids Colorado". They must protect access to healthcare choices, protect against pedo priests, protect vulnerable LGBTQ kids from sexual and physical abuse and bullying, protect their rights to equal and safe education and finally dedicate themselves to expose the pedophiles and abusers in the Epstein files, right? RIGHT???
Colorado Initiatives 109 and 110 represent a dangerous step backward — driven not by compassion or evidence, but by political fear and coordinated pressure from groups intent on restricting personal freedoms.
What is especially troubling is the alliance forming between these advocacy groups and the Catholic Church, an institution that should first reckon fully with its own long and painful history of child abuse and institutional cover-ups before positioning itself as a moral authority over the lives and rights of others.
Coloradans deserve policies grounded in respect, facts, and individual dignity — not campaigns fueled by hypocrisy and ideological control.
Voters should look closely at who is pushing these initiatives, why they are doing so, and whose voices are being ignored in the process.
Our laws should protect people, not target them.
If these Initiatives do make it onto the ballot in November the citizens of Colorado should soundly defeat them and stand up for their fellow citizens who ask nothing more than to live their lives with the rights like anyone else.
Trans identity is the result of atypical development, something that manifests in all kinds of ways, undeniable, well recognized ways, but trans identity being one of them is something these believers in a loving God (for white people, mainly) could never accept would be a thing. It's so out of whack with nature and observation of reality, so ignorant and crazy, that it amazes me these lunatic legal proposals to harass and oppress trans people get the traction they so often do. But we've only begun to fight back.
And their bigotry is entirely based on one single cherrypicked Bible quote that comes from the Old Testament, specifically Leviticus, which also has a TON of other "thou shalt nots" that these people NEVER observe or recognize.
So anti-democratic and inhumane. Let's trust that voters in Colorado will push back on this, as well as voters in Washington State where I live on their anti-trans initiative that will be on the ballot. To follow on Melissa's comment, I don't understand how religious organizations can maintain their tax-exempt status if they are not politically neutral. I know that feds have been reluctant to enforce the regs in this regard, but if we ever get a Dem majority in Congress this needs to be addressed.
These fucking assholes are enjoying speaking this bullshit. The words coming from their mouths are their idea of having oral sex. That’s why they speak it loudly and often. It feels soooo good to them. They are masturbating while the words ooze from their mouths.
No, not yet. Remember, what's happened is that a ballot question got certified. That's all. It's a long way from passing. Considering it's common for ballot questions to lose support as a campaign goes on and that we don't even know if it has majority support now (personally, I suspect it doesn't), while there is a battle to be fought, it's way too early to throw in the towel.
By the Goddess I hope most people in Colorado have the sense to vote against this.
Another day, another story reminding me why I stopped going to mass. . .
Once any church collects signatures for ANY POLITICAL BALLOT, their non-profit status should be immediately revoked. They have become Political Action Committees which are prohibited from attaining tax-exempt status. MAKE THESE CHURCHES PAY! The U.S. loses $$$BILLIONS in tax dollars due to these organizations masquerading as churches and/or preaching hate from their pulpits.
Thank you for your work and reporting. It must be so difficult to be focused on this, day in and day out.
Transgender plague?! I bet most Coloradans would be more concerned with the evangelical plague that is corrupting our government and bossing people around. I would love to see this backfire and mobilize massive turnout against these ballot initiatives.
They need to run "church lady" ads to get people to turn out and fight the plague of the Genitally Obsessed Puritans (GOP).
Holy fuck! Doesn't the Catholic Church have better things to do than hop on the bigot bus to Hell? Fingers crossed that the good people of Colorado will see this for what it is and vote it into oblivion.
In case there was ANY doubt that these right wing God botherers want to TOTALLY eradicate the trans community. When you call something a "plague" you truly reveal your cards.
Agree. The use of the term 'plague' is patently genocidal, because that implies it's a disease which needs to be eradicated and erased.
Great. "Protect Kids Colorado". They must protect access to healthcare choices, protect against pedo priests, protect vulnerable LGBTQ kids from sexual and physical abuse and bullying, protect their rights to equal and safe education and finally dedicate themselves to expose the pedophiles and abusers in the Epstein files, right? RIGHT???
Oh NM. I guess they just like to bully vulnerable children.
Colorado Initiatives 109 and 110 represent a dangerous step backward — driven not by compassion or evidence, but by political fear and coordinated pressure from groups intent on restricting personal freedoms.
What is especially troubling is the alliance forming between these advocacy groups and the Catholic Church, an institution that should first reckon fully with its own long and painful history of child abuse and institutional cover-ups before positioning itself as a moral authority over the lives and rights of others.
Coloradans deserve policies grounded in respect, facts, and individual dignity — not campaigns fueled by hypocrisy and ideological control.
Voters should look closely at who is pushing these initiatives, why they are doing so, and whose voices are being ignored in the process.
Our laws should protect people, not target them.
If these Initiatives do make it onto the ballot in November the citizens of Colorado should soundly defeat them and stand up for their fellow citizens who ask nothing more than to live their lives with the rights like anyone else.
Where can I donate to fight these initiatives?
Trans identity is the result of atypical development, something that manifests in all kinds of ways, undeniable, well recognized ways, but trans identity being one of them is something these believers in a loving God (for white people, mainly) could never accept would be a thing. It's so out of whack with nature and observation of reality, so ignorant and crazy, that it amazes me these lunatic legal proposals to harass and oppress trans people get the traction they so often do. But we've only begun to fight back.
And their bigotry is entirely based on one single cherrypicked Bible quote that comes from the Old Testament, specifically Leviticus, which also has a TON of other "thou shalt nots" that these people NEVER observe or recognize.
Yes, that is spot on. If we're to accept that as evidence, sheesh. Just unreal, in this day and age.
There's that genocidal dehumanization again. They know exactly where this sort of talk leads, and they're positively giddy about it.
Christians focusing more on persecuting their neighbors than loving their neighbors, shocker.
To think last night I was just looking at Colorado as a potential state to relocate to.
So anti-democratic and inhumane. Let's trust that voters in Colorado will push back on this, as well as voters in Washington State where I live on their anti-trans initiative that will be on the ballot. To follow on Melissa's comment, I don't understand how religious organizations can maintain their tax-exempt status if they are not politically neutral. I know that feds have been reluctant to enforce the regs in this regard, but if we ever get a Dem majority in Congress this needs to be addressed.
OK, I’m just going to say it…
These fucking assholes are enjoying speaking this bullshit. The words coming from their mouths are their idea of having oral sex. That’s why they speak it loudly and often. It feels soooo good to them. They are masturbating while the words ooze from their mouths.
Scratch Colorado off the list of “safe” states to which we can flee to find any semblance of security. Fuck.
No, not yet. Remember, what's happened is that a ballot question got certified. That's all. It's a long way from passing. Considering it's common for ballot questions to lose support as a campaign goes on and that we don't even know if it has majority support now (personally, I suspect it doesn't), while there is a battle to be fought, it's way too early to throw in the towel.