Colorado has quietly become the most authoritarian state in the country, being dragged in front of the Supreme Court again and again over its repeated violations of the Constitution.
In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for gender-confused children. What that means, in practice, is that Colorado banned therapists and counselors from trying to talk a child through his or her gender confusion, mandating “affirmation” as the only acceptable speech in that context. Colorado Democrats were essentially attempting to force mental health professionals to push children into transgenderism through affirmation, a free speech violation so obvious that even two of the three liberal Supreme Court justices voted to strike it down.
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Colorado may well soon be pulled in front of the court on another First Amendment violation. The Archdiocese of Denver and several Catholic preschools have asked the Supreme Court to take up their case, where they allege that the state’s universal preschool program is excluding them in an act of religious discrimination.
This has become a pattern for Colorado. The Supreme Court infamously had to step in when Colorado tried to punish a Christian baker for not creating a wedding cake that would celebrate gay marriage. That baker, Jack Phillips, didn’t discriminate against gay customers; he simply declined to bake a specific kind of cake (a gay wedding cake) in accordance with his religious views. The Supreme Court even noted that Colorado was expressing “open hostility” toward religion. Colorado launched a second witch hunt against Phillips, which even the biased Colorado Supreme Court (more on them later) shot down.
In 2023, Colorado again lost at the Supreme Court, this time in its effort to force a website designer to design a website for a gay wedding in violation of her religious beliefs. Again, the designer in this case was not discriminating against gay customers who wanted websites for businesses or anything else. She was specifically declining to celebrate a gay wedding, in accordance with her religious beliefs, and Colorado tried to destroy her business for it, just as it tried with Phillips.
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Then there was the case of Colorado trying to destroy the electoral system as we know it. The aforementioned Colorado Supreme Court, with the support of statewide Democrats, tried to bar then-former President Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in 2024. This effort ultimately failed, as the Supreme Court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision, but the state’s Democrats did try to completely ban the national head of the opposition party from its ballots.
Colorado has built for itself an egregious track record of authoritarianism, trying to destroy the First Amendment and the integrity of our electoral system. Colorado has undeniably become the most authoritarian state in the country and has proven that the Supreme Court is the only thing holding it back from shredding the Constitution.