{"id":12777,"date":"2025-07-19T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:38:22","slug":"blue-state-persists-in-campaign-to-control-speech-now-its-a-bookstore-going-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/blue-state-persists-in-campaign-to-control-speech-now-its-a-bookstore-going-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue State Persists in Campaign to Control Speech, Now It\u2019s a Bookstore Going to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mini-California is going to court again for trying to force Christians to adhere to people’s gender delusions and sexual deviancy. Why are you electing Demonrats down there in Colorado? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2025\/07\/blue-state-persists-campaign-control-speech-now-its\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By\u00a0Bob Unruh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If nothing else, Colorado officials have proven their persistence in their agenda to control everyone\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, following the demands of a homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and a Democrat-majority state House and Senate, they tried to force a Christian baker to endorse same-sex marriage. Millions of tax dollars later they not only lost, but were scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for their \u201chostility\u201d to Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They tried the same stunt, under the guise of \u201cnon-discrimination,\u201d with a web designer. Again the Supreme Court knocked the state down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re also arguing for their right to control others\u2019 speech in another case now before the Supreme Court, involving state-mandated censorship of counselors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now state officials have adopted a scheme that would require a bookstore to express ideas its owners don\u2019t believe, and it\u2019s already in the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a report in Complete Colorado<\/a> that describes the dilemma facing Born Again Used Books, a Christian bookstore in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its owners had to file a lawsuit against the state because of a leftist \u201cgender expression\u201d law new from Democrats in the statehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It controls speech in that it requires businesses to address customers according to their \u201cpreferred pronouns,\u201d meaning that bookstore workers have to call a woman \u201che\u201d and a man \u201cshe\u201d if that\u2019s what they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The store, with help from the ADF, has sued over the state scheme to censor speech and punish individuals who are guilty of \u201cmisgendering\u201d someone, that is, calling them by an accurate pronoun they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which has been used in those other schemes that already have been torpedoed repeatedly by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit, in federal court, names as defendants state officials Aubrey Sullivan, Sergio Raudel Cordova, Geta Asfar, Mayuko Fieweger, Daniel S. Ward, Jade Rose Kelly, Eric Artis and Phil Weiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government has no need or right to force Americans to profess ideological views they oppose,\u201d the court filing charges. \u201cOur pluralistic country is big enough and sturdy enough to allow people of good faith to express different views, even when the government disagrees. The Constitution demands it. And Colorado is better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Store owners Eric and Sara Smith told Complete Colorado of their concern about compromising their values, or facing steep legal punishments for exercising their First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the truth gets lost in the discussion, it\u2019s hard to have a discussion,\u201d Sara Smith told the publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state also tried recently to force a Christian summer camp for children to allow boys in the facilities for girls, but abruptly reversed course when confronted with concerns about the state\u2019s violation of religious rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bookstore is seeking a court ruling to stop the state\u2019s enforcement of its CADA against the store, an order declaring the state is violating the Constitution, a monetary award to cover the expenses of the fight, and that the court retain jurisdiction to see that the state follows the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mini-California is going to court again for trying to force Christians to adhere to people’s gender delusions and sexual deviancy. Why are you electing Demonrats down there in Colorado? https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2025\/07\/blue-state-persists-campaign-control-speech-now-its\/ By\u00a0Bob Unruh If nothing else, Colorado officials have proven their persistence in their agenda to control everyone\u2019s speech. First, following the demands of a homosexual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}