WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh has a weird thing for turning “news” stories about his home state of Colorado into political tirades about the state. He raged again in an Aug. 25 article:
The all-Democrat government in Colorado – governor’s office, state House, state Senate and state Supreme Court – for years has had an agenda to eliminate the rights protected by the First Amendment.
It has tried over and over to set state requirements for speech that try to control the messages that people and organizations are allowed to express.
And now it’s getting sued for its latest scheming.
NetChoice, a social media corporation trade organization, sued the state “to stop the government’s attacks on websites that host free speech.”
The organization said in an announcement the state law, HB 24-1136, “mandates that websites display state-approved ‘warning’ messages to deter users from using online services and to promote the government’s controversial views on social media.”
As we noted the last time Unruh ranted about this, the law involves requiring “advisory labels for underage users warning of the brain development effects of social media use,” which he again failed to mention until the 13th paragraph of his article. And even then, he couldn’t be bothered to tell the full story: The pop-up advisories would appear only during overnight hours and only after a user has spent an hour or more on the platform. But the point of Unruh’s article is not to report the truth, it’s to have an excuse to rant about the state in an irrelevant way:
The state has gone to war against Christians multiple times in recent years, attempting to force them to spout the state’s leftist messaging, specifically regarding the LGTB agenda.
Under homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, the state went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force baker Jack Phillips to promote same-sex ideology with his cake artistry. The state lost, and got scolded by the high court for its “hostility” to Christianity.
The state did the same thing with a wedding site web designer, and lost again.
Unruh didn’t explain how calling out the homophobia of right-wing Christians has anything to do with trying to protect youngsters from the harmful effects of social media.
Unruh served up more irrelevant ranting in an Aug. 27 article:
A Christian-run bakery is under attack by one of the political subdivisions of the state of Colorado, which has established in recent years a long list of acts of “hostility” to members of the faith.
That “hostility” designation actually came from the U.S. Supreme Court, which rejected the leftist state’s anti-faith agenda in a fight over the messaging on cakes produced by a popular different bakery.
The state has tried to same scheme against a web designer, and now is attacking the speech of counselors in a related fight.
But the newest blaze that has erupted in the state is over a French bakery in Jefferson County, just west of Denver itself.
A report at the Federalist notes that it is a zoning authority that has ordered an end to the bakery that has proven popular in its community.
The report explains the bakery, Et Voila!, opened up in the Lookout Mountain community, overlooking Golden.
Unruh again waited until the 13th paragraph to concede that the issue is not one of faith — it’s a zoning issue, because the family is living in trailers on the property which is not zoned for residential. Again, Unruh is not going to let inconvenient facts get in the way of spewing a partisan rant:
The report also noted CNBC has rated Colorado at “D+” for the cost of doing business, and a “C-” for business friendliness, and as the county is facing a $30 million budget shortfall, its intention appears to be “destroy a thriving business and a cherished community hub simply to enforce its zoning ordinance.”
Colorado, the state, already has lost at the Supreme Court its war against another bakery over the owner’s refusal to spout state-approved LGBT messaging in violation of his own faith. Same results, from the same Supreme Court, in the state’s war against a web designer. Still pending is the state’s demand that counselors say only state-approved words in counseling clients.
This being Unruh — who does not believe in fair and balanced journalism — he does not allow any government official to respond to the claims in either article.