Colorado parents packed the hearing room. Democrats didn’t ask a single question.
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Twenty Coloradans showed up. Zero came to oppose. The resolution died anyway.
By the time the House State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee finished Monday night, HCR 26-1004 was postponed indefinitely after a vote of 8 to 3.
Parents waited hours for their three minutes at the microphone. When it was over, the majority moved on to the next bill.
The resolution was constitutionally modest.
It proposed inserting explicit language into the Colorado Constitution recognizing parents' right to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children. Sponsors argued throughout the hearing that the amendment would leave existing child abuse and neglect protections intact — the state would s...