State leaders in Colorado – for the last decade or so and even now – virtually all subscribing to the leftist Democrat agenda, have adopted a state belief system, religion in fact, promoting the LGBT ideology, specifically
“nondiscrimination” rules to which they have tried to coerce others, with other beliefs, to subscribe.
It cannot be considered strictly a secular “nondiscrimination” agenda as they specifically have targeted those with differing faith standards, specifically Christians, with their demands they mouth the state talking points.
They’ve spent millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing their agenda to force compliance, and have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court four times already in their campaign. They’ve lost three times, so far.
And their insistence on violating the First Amendment protections now has drawn rebuking comments from two Supreme Court justices, Samuel Alito and Amy Barrett.
The latest case, which analysts predict the state also will lose, was argued this week, and concerns state demands that Catholic preschools bend their faith standards to the LGBT agenda in order to participate in a state aid program available to the general public.
The state is demanding those Catholic school give up their beliefs, or lose access to funding.
The Washington Examiner reported, “Alito questioned Colorado Deputy Solicitor General Helen Norton over the rule mandating that all people be allowed to attend schools admitted to the universal preschool program, asking if a state enacts ‘a condition that it knows certain religions cannot accept,’ only the intent matters when determining whether it was religious discrimination. Norton responded that intent is a key part in determining whether a law is unlawful religious discrimination.”
Supreme Court skeptical of Colorado's LGBTQ requirements on Catholic schools for tuition assistance https://t.co/63kSqwFpTj
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 3, 2026
Great News! Supreme Court looks likely to rule against Colorado for trying to force LGBTQ madness on Catholic and Christian preschools. Huge victory for freedom of conscience and the right to educate our kids freely according to our faiths! 🇺🇸🙏
— Conservative from Boulder (@a4waystop) November 3, 2026
Big loss for @jaredpolis
Colorado ballot measures on transgender youth sports, surgeries passing with slim majorities https://t.co/pqeyaLchqU
— Enzo Pontrelli (@ap215) November 4, 2026
Alito noted, “We have little evidence of a practical problem, little evidence, if any evidence — you'll tell me if I'm wrong — that there are LGBTQ couples who cannot find other preschools to send their children to. And we have your state's record in recent First Amendment cases to which Justice [Amy Coney] Barrett referred: Chiles v. Salazar last term, violation of the First Amendment rights of the Christian counselor; 303 Creative in 2021, violation of the First Amendment rights of a Christian website designer; Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2015, violation of the First Amendment rights of the Christian baker.”
He wondered, “What should we make of all of this?"
On a positive note, CO voted to protect females in sports and voted for no trans surgeries for children. 👏 https://t.co/oRHPoUgHZ7
— Curious Kris🌿 (@kls2020) November 4, 2026
Barrett, in fact, had noted the same cases.
The report said, “Colorado is seeking to avoid a fourth loss this decade on First Amendment grounds, but a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court appeared likely to side with the group of Catholic preschools, adding to the Centennial State's poor record.”
Alito noted the state’s dismal record on religious rights issues.
Supreme Court skeptical of Colorado’s LGBTQ requirements on Catholic schools for tuition assistance https://t.co/63kSqwFpTj
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 3, 2026
Supreme Court weighs if Colorado program can force Christian preschools to adopt LGBT nondiscrimination rules https://t.co/3AaAbW81p9
— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) November 4, 2026
Stunningly, voters in Colorado, who have been billed millions and millions of dollars for the anti-Christian fights orchestrated by homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and his newly elected replacement, Phil Weisser, who was chosen Tuesday on the strength of his two biggest accomplishments, persecuting Christians and suing President Donald Trump dozens of times, appeared to deliver a rebuke.
Voters Tuesday, with some votes still not counted, adopted two changes in state law: One bans boys from girls athletic teams in schools and the other bans mutilating gender surgeries on children.
Both were passing 52%-48% early Wednesday.
Alito pointed out to Norton that the state appeared to set up the latest fight, by picking a standard that its Democrat officials knew Catholic schools could not adopt.
Recently, the high court delivered a blow to Colorado’s agenda to violate standards Christians find in the Bible.
It was in the 303 Creative case where web designer was ordered by the state to deliver promotions for same-sex weddings, in violation of her Christian faith.
“Colorado seems hell-bent on enforcing its own new orthodoxy of thought, and the Supreme Court has had to come back time and time again to correct them and to remind them that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, even when the state may disagree with a person’s opinions,” Carrie Severino, president of the legal watchdog JCN, told Fox.
That followed a similar ruling in the years-long persecution assembled by the state’s so-called “Civil Rights Commission” against bakery artist Jack Phillips, over his decision not to promote same-sex weddings.
Then the high court also found that Colorado's conversion therapy ban, signed into law in 2019 by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, violated the First Amendment because it only restricted talk therapy when the therapy aimed to prevent minors from embracing being transgender or gay.
The ADF has been the legal team for some of the battles, and spokesman Jim Campbell said Colorado’s actions are not “coincidental” “at this point.”
The fights have concluded with the Supreme Court deciding a state cannot force a person to convey a message with which he or she disagrees, an agenda that Colorado Democrats clearly have adopted.
In fact, in the Jack Phillips case, the Supreme Court found Colorado had exhibited “hostility” to Christianity.
An official with American Principles explained Colorado’s Democrats “will stomp on the rights of anyone who stands in the way of the well-heeled gay and transgender lobby whether it is bakers, doctors, or desperate families.”
The state also has been anti-Trump, and lost at the high court. The all-Democrat state Supreme Court tried unsuccessfully to banish Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot.
The state also has adopted pro-abortion beliefs, and lost that fight, too.
Democrats there, unconstitutionally, had tried to ban doctors and nurses from offering medical support to women seeking to reverse the effect of the abortion pill.
USA Today explained Colorado now is the “primary legal battleground for Supreme Court cases involving the tension between LGBTQ+ protections and religious freedom.”
A Wayne State professor of law, Mark Satta, said Colorado “has been an especially fertile source of Supreme Court cases that require balancing LGBTQ rights with the First Amendment rights of conservative Christians. In fact, Colorado is a clear outlier here among the states.”
But leftists there are not done. After the Chiles decision which said the state could not demand gender orientation counseling that is not viewpoint neutral, lawmakers wrote a new law to allow those who get any such counseling to sue counselors as long as decades after the fact, if they claim harm.
That, again, has drawn a legal challenge. One lawyer involved said, “Colorado is very committed on these issues, and it doesn't mind overriding people's First Amendment rights.”
The votes prompted blatant online hints that violence could be coming:
If you live in Colorado and you're a part of our trans community here tonight, I love and respect you! Also, buy a gun. https://t.co/QgsqVtbNOX
— eLane (@ElaineKeyCS) November 4, 2026
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