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Colorado coward Dems declare war on parents, choose a quiet Sunday to do it

April 8, 2025 | | Print Article

Colorado State House Democrats reportedly just used a quiet Sunday afternoon to ram through four controversial bills on gender and abortion.

“It should alarm every American that Colorado’s Majority used a Sunday — a day typically reserved for family and prayer — to force through four of the most extreme bills of the session,” Republican House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese told Fox News on Monday.

She went on to call the tactic of trying to pass such controversial bills on a Sunday “unprecedented.”

“There was no filibuster, no delay — just a determined effort to shut down discussion on legislation that directly affects parental rights, public safety, and the use of taxpayer dollars,” she added.

She wasn’t alone in her complaints:

“The Democrat Party convened the General Assembly on the Lord’s Day for their worship of the leviathan of state to cram through some of the most egregious attacks on the fabric of our nation,” state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, a Republican, told The Daily Signal.

The first bill, Senate Bill 183, both enshrines into law a right to abortion and also paves a way for taxpayer funds to be used to pay for abortions for Medicaid recipients and state employees.

The second bill, House Bill 1309, requires that healthcare insurers cover transgender surgery regardless of the age of the recipient, meaning, in other words, that kids can now cut off their genitals with the full backing of their leftist state government.

The third bill, House Bill 1312, makes so-called “deadnaming” and “misgendering” into discriminatory acts that can be used by the courts to deny parents access to their children in custody cases.

And the final bill, Senate Bill 129, prevents Colorado residents from having to cooperate with out-of-state investigations targeting transgender procedures and abortion services.

All this comes about a week after state Rep. Yara Zokaie, a rabid Democrat, compared parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan during a hearing on House Bill 1312.

She issued the disgusting smear after fellow state Rep. Jarvis Caldwell, a Republican, asked whether his Democrat peers had reached out to speak with “parent groups that are not part of the LGBT community.”

“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she replied.

Listen:

Zokaie doubled down on her sick comparison last Friday, and this time she cited the debunked, disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center.

“I will call those groups hateful, and I am not the only person who has done so,” she said. “Some of the groups in opposition to this bill are on a list of hate groups maintained by one of the most well-known civil rights law firms, and yes I will compare that to saying it’s like asking someone working on civil rights legislation to consult with white supremacist groups, and I will do that unapologetically.”

Listen:

Republicans were outraged.

Caldwell told Tyler O’Neil of The Daily Signal that the comparison uses “inflammatory labels that are only meant to create division” and “dismisses the valid concerns of parents.”

“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” state Rep Ken deGraaf added.

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