WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh’s tirades against his home state of Colorado for failing to be sufficiently right=-wing continued in a Sept. 10 article:
A sheriff trying his best to deal with crime in far-left Colorado is warning that state lawmakers forced him to release a suspect in an attempt murder case, and that person now is on the streets again.
“Someone’s going to get hurt and someone’s going to get hurt bad,” explained Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams.
The suspect in question was caught on video allegedly punching one man until he fell backward, hitting his head and laying there unconscious. In a second situation, the suspect allegedly punched a man until he was lying flat on his back on the pavement, then continued to bash the man in the head.
Here is a local news report describing how the sheriff was forced, by leftist state lawmakers in Colorado’s Democrat-majority legislature, to release the suspect, Debisa Ephriam.
Actually, the suspect’s name is Ephraim Debisa, and Unruh didn’t explain why his release justified getting his name wrong.
Unruh spent part of a Sept. 30 article raging against Colorado officials who pointed out that a cake maker who refused to make cakes for gay people practiced discrimination:
The court already has ruled on the issue, deciding in the case involving Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado that he could not be forced to violate his faith.
There, the leftists in the state who had launched vicious attacks on Phillips, even trying to force him into an LGBT indoctrination program, were scolded for their “hostility” to Christianity.
Unruh did not describe what constituted an “LGBT indoctrination program,” or why acknowledging that gay people exist and deserve basic human respect constitutes “indoctrination.”
Unruh huffed in an Oct. 7 article:
Colorado’s leftist government, run by homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and other Democrats who make up the majority of the legislature, has decided that it’s free speech when a licensed counselor tries to convince a client of the benefits of the LGBT lifestyle. That “affirming” advice.
But it’s “behavior” when a Christian licensed counselor explains to a client the benefits of attitude adjustments that provide the patient a level of comfort inside his or her own sexual identity. That, Colorado claims, can be censored.
That fight was before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case brought by Christian counselor Kaley Chiles, who explains that the state’s one-sided and censorial agenda of leftism actually violates her constitutionally protected right to free speech.
It’s been a common tactic for LGBT activists and other leftists across the country to falsely label such counseling “conversion therapy” and then make it illegal to counter their political ideology.
[…]Colorado already has lost multiple cases at the high court in its campaigns to censor Christians and force them to parrot the state’s adopted pro-LGBT ideology. In one case, the justices scolded state officials for their “hostility” to Christians.
Even AP, which leans far left in its politics, admitted the justices, whose decision won’t come for some weeks or even months, appeared to choose Chiles’ side.
The high court already has ruled that states can ban transition-related health care for “transgender” youth.
Unurhh offered no evidence that the AP “leans far left,” or that acknowledging that gay exist is an “ideology” why denying their humanity is not. Still, he continued:
Colorado’s lawyers insisted that any “treatment” seeking to change “a minor’s sexual orientation” is “unsafe and ineffective.”
However, studies show that the incident of suicidal ideology is higher for those in the LGBT lifestyle than the general population.
Unruh did not explain why he considers LGBT people to be merely a “lifestyle.” Neverthess, he persisted:
Leftist judges in Colorado, where the all-Democrat state Supreme Court even tried to throw Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot, claimed the state was right in saying that speech is behavior.
Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson claimed studies confirm higher rates of suicidality among teens who underwent conversion therapy – but Chiles’ lawyer explained those results depend on biased sampling, self-reporting, which is unreliable, and the inappropriate conflation of “aversion therapy,” a separate concept entirely, with the misnamed “conversion therapy.”
Unruh — whose employer has long labored to rebrand conversion therapy into something less sinister and harmful — didn’t explain the difference between “conversion therapy” and “aversion therapy”; instead, he huffed, “Detractors have called such counseling ‘conversion therapy’ but the misnomer isn’t accurate since the counseling actually involves helping patients come to grips with their own reality.” He also failed to explain why Chiles is not involved in conversion therapy given that the presumed goal of Chiles’ therapy is to convert a person from homosexual to heterosexual.
Unruh raged at Colorado again in an Oct. 21 article:
Few states can speak with any accuracy of being further left than Colorado.
That’s where abortion is a constitutional right, where Democrats run the governor’s office, the legislature, and even the state Supreme Court. That was where justices wildly tried to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. In the legislature, lawmakers decided to simply run around a constitutional limit on tax hikes by calling the new charges “fees.”
It’s gone even further, in some situations, than California, by creating circumstances where teachers have been known to sexually assault students.
Unruh offered no evidence to back up his biased attack. The article itself is about none of those things — rather, it’s about a lawsuit on whether work requirements for state prison inmates constitutes “slavery.”