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Supreme Court Sets Date for Colorado Religious Liberty Showdown
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Supreme Court Sets Date for Colorado Religious Liberty Showdown

By Zach Schonfeld | The Hill The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Nov. 3 in its major case asking whether Colorado can force Catholic preschools to enroll children of same-sex couples to receive public funds.  The justices previously agreed to take up the case, which provides a pathway for the high court to narrow a major religious precedent.  On Tuesday, the court released its November argument calendar, setting the stage for the case to be heard on the same day as the midterm elections.  It’s the latest First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s LGBTQ protections to arrive at the Supreme Court.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT THE HILL
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Davidson: The lockdown was an assault on the Bill of Rights
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Davidson: The lockdown was an assault on the Bill of Rights

By Jay Davidson | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Fauci's testimony is evidence of how the Bill of Rights works now. In this referenced article, Jeff Tucker points out that the personification of the lockdown, Fauci, successfully used the Fifth Amendment to protect his freedom, writing, "It's actually quite inspiring to see how the Bill of Rights works in a case of such significance." But how did the breakdown in individual rights manifest? Was intent behind the panic or did certain people in power jump at the chance to use a crisis to gain control? Perhaps it was simply mass hysteria and no one was behind it and no one amplified it. The fact is much simpler: The pandemic led to massive loss of individual rights and enormous disruption of business transactions. Jeff ...
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Should America reserve its highest offices for natural-born citizens?
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Should America reserve its highest offices for natural-born citizens?

By Christine Coleman | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice “You shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.” — Deuteronomy 17:15 When God brought the children of Israel into the Promised Land, He established clear laws and commandments for their governance. Among them was the explicit requirement that rulers must be chosen from among their own people — no foreigner born outside the nation was permitted to rule over God’s covenant people. This principle was repeatedly tested and its violation brought severe consequences. In 1 Kings 11, King Solomon’s heart was turned away from the Lord through his many foreign wive...
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Wyoming Slashes Wolf Hunt As Disease Takes Toll On Packs
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Wyoming Slashes Wolf Hunt As Disease Takes Toll On Packs

By The Associated Press | Colorado Politics WYOMING Wolf hunt cut in half Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the state began allowing wolf hunting after Endangered Species Act protections were lifted in 2012. The limit also marks a significant decrease from last fall’s wolf hunting season. Last year, hunters could target a maximum of 44 wolves in the area around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where Wyoming classifies wolves as trophy game during the Sept. 15-Dec. 31 season. Hunters bound to Wyoming’s relatively ...
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The captivity of grievance: A challenge to modern progressive ideology
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The captivity of grievance: A challenge to modern progressive ideology

By Michael Hancock | Commentary, Undercurrent Substack The Psychological Chains Hidden Inside the Language of Compassion There are chains that can be seen. There are chains that must be discovered. The visible chain is the easier one to condemn. It clanks. It bruises. It announces itself in iron, law, lash, and blood. Chattel slavery was such an evil. It placed one man’s body under another man’s ownership and then constructed an entire moral fiction to justify the theft. It was not merely an economic system. It was a theological lie. It denied what Genesis declared at the beginning: “God created man in His own image.” That is where every serious conversation about human dignity must begin. Not with race. Not with class. Not with grievance. Not with politics. ...
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A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small
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A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small

By Ken DeGraaf | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice This story is not merely about a brave young girl gone viral for a poignant poem. It is about a canary in a coal mine gasping for air as the poisons of a culture increasingly unable to tolerate truth swirl ever thicker in the atmosphere around it. When a 7th grader is barred from presenting a poem titled “A life is a life, no matter how small” to her Honors English classmates because it defended unborn life, Colorado should take stock of its condition. In a Jeffco district claiming that “all students…feel that their voices and perspectives are valued,” the promotion of life itself was deemed too offensive. A healthy civilization does not fear competing moral arguments. It does not silence peaceful dissent or require instit...
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“A shift in history”: Worshippers at Rededicate 250 say America’s renewal begins with God
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“A shift in history”: Worshippers at Rededicate 250 say America’s renewal begins with God

By Ryan Foley | The Christian Post WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered on the National Mall Sunday for a historic day of national prayer and worship ahead of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with attendees expressing hope for a spiritual renewal and a cultural shift in American society.  Christians from around the world braved occasional light rain, hot weather and long security lines to participate in Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving. Several prominent religious leaders and Trump administration officials addressed the crowd, which extended beyond rows of chairs to blankets spread across the grass with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Rededicate 250 is one of several events planned as p...
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4 highlights from Rededicate 250: Faith leaders call America back to God
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4 highlights from Rededicate 250: Faith leaders call America back to God

By Jon Brown | The Christian Post WASHINGTON — Several high-profile Christian speakers addressed thousands who gathered Sunday on the National Mall for Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving, an all-day prayer and worship festival ahead of the 250th anniversary of United States independence. Held to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress designating "a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayers" amid the trials of the Revolutionary War, several prominent faith leaders and Trump administration officials who spoke at the event stressed the importance of returning to that same spirit of humble repentance and reliance upon the Lord. Several attendees from around the country who spoke to The Christian Pos...
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Colorado Student Granted Religious Exemption From School’s Digital Monitoring System
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Colorado Student Granted Religious Exemption From School’s Digital Monitoring System

By Hannah Metzger | Westword "The district is deeply committed to honoring parental rights." Hail Satan? A young member of the Satanic Temple was granted a religious accommodation from the Elizabeth School District, arguing that the district’s digital hall pass system conflicts with her beliefs. The parents of the Elizabeth High School student had requested that she be exempted from the system, but their request was initially denied, according to TST. That’s when the Temple’s lawyers stepped in. “This was a cut-and-dry case of a TST member’s bodily autonomy being violated by invasive digital controls,” says Eliphaz Costus, campaign director of the Temple’s Protect Children Project. Using the digital hall pass system to monitor and restric...
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Supreme Court To Weigh Religious Freedom In Colorado Preschool Funding Case
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Supreme Court To Weigh Religious Freedom In Colorado Preschool Funding Case

By John Fritze | CNN The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Colorado law that requires preschools receiving taxpayer money to enroll children of same-sex couples — setting up an important First Amendment showdown at the high court that pits religious rights against LGBTQ families. At the same time, the court declined to hear another high-profile case involving a Massachusetts couple who said their school began treating their middle school child as genderqueer against their wishes. After years of allowing religious schools in some settings to receive state funding alongside secular schools, the 6-3 conservative court will now decide what to do when school leaders assert that anti-discrimination laws intended to protect gay and transgender people conflict with their...
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