Communist Colorado

The Chair of the Judiciary Committee at the Colorado state capitol yesterday spoke to a room of PhDs, medical doctors, parents, and grandparents like children. "We're going to be respectful of each other, right? I think we've done pretty good so far," she used her kindergarten voice while standing over a bill that would strip away their rights.

College kids with blue and pink hair cried to the committee as if it were their rights on trial, as if they were the ones being targeted, while parents of multiple transgender kids talked about not wanting their children to be taken away from them. While the bill itself actually would make it legal for the state to take away children from every Christian parent defying the state by calling their child by their actual gender and the name they gave them at birth.

The pink and blue haired people used their stories of victimhood to justify their own perpetration of injustice against those they characterized as hating them simply because they disagreed to allowing children to be targeted and destroyed in their sexuality and being bullied by the state. They wanted to be accepted "just as we are" while not accepting themselves, putting into law that they should need surgeries and hormones to change the way they are.

Pastors and doctors were told that they would be the ones to celebrate the death of MLK and compared to the KKK. Until someone read aloud what it was like to oppose the government, concluding with "You may think I'm talking about Colorado. But this is talking about Nazi Germany."

You see, when you give some people more "rights" than others, you have to take those rights from others. The rights being taken from parents, teachers, business owners, and churchgoers is the right to free speech, religious freedom, and the rights of parents to raise their own children according to their own values and conscience. While pretending to "protect" children, the bill puts every child in harm's way, children who would not even know what "transgender" means if they were not being targeted, proselytized, and used for an agenda.

I was told I was one of 500 people waiting who did not get to testify within the eight hours allotted as the second bill of the day. As just one person, I represent literally thousands of Coloradans from across the state who oppose this bill, and its companion bill that will make the parents' insurance companies pay for the drugs and surgeries that will debilitate their children once children are taken from their parents against their will.

There was clearly a lot of pain on the side of the room with pink and blue hair. While those with medical and theological degrees pointed to scientific and medical reality and historical precedent, the children told stories of real pain as if a government and a bill would make their pain go away, just as they thought trying to deny their own God-given sexuality would make their pain go away. Or if people would only call them by a different name or preferred pronoun, their pain would go away.

With an 87% suicidal tendency among those confused about their gender, a teacher from Denver testified how she'd watched teachers pull aside students behind closed doors and then instruct her to call them by a different name and gender - that the request was not coming from the students themselves. Upon hearing her, I'm guessing she won't have a job left after that testimony.

The committee chair was equally disrespectful to a colleague from the House. At one point, she even questioned why a fellow senator asked a question about the dangers of hormones as if it had nothing to do with a discussion on a bill that was all about transitioning children - transitioning not from childhood to adulthood, but as if it were possible to transition them from one gender to another with hormones and castrating and plastic surgeries.

It was as most committee meetings where Planned Parenthood's purse strings are involved, where the committee does its cursory nod at process while its mind has already been made up, and discussing after testimony the ways in which they intended all along to change the bill without public discussion. Of all the evidence that we have a computer-generated election, the fact that those who are supposedly voted into office have no respect or regard for the opinions of those they supposedly depend upon to elect them is perhaps the greatest.

In a large chamber with three overflow rooms and 500 testimonies leftover, the Constitutional rights that these legislators vowed to uphold upon taking office were not even given pause. Those wanting to take away the rights of others simply pointed to precedent about how these rights are already eroded. They failed to mention that their examples are social norms and not draconian law as they proposed. At least two of the members on committee who ran under the name "democrat" are confirmed communists, as was the group bringing the bill, using these children to justify their agenda to erase a Constitutional Republic.

I feel for the parents and grandparents who have children in the state. And I hope that every Christian in the state has the opportunity through a church school or homeschool to pull their child away from the dangerous public classroom that is there to indoctrinate their child more than educate them. And certainly any Christian parent will not allow any child to go to a state college! But even that is not enough, as the government wants to come into every home and tell parents how to parent and how to teach, make every child a ward of the state, and pull apart the stable and solid families.

Any committee member voting for these bills should never sit in those seats again. Every Christian is obligated to defy these laws. Every pastor should feel compelled to preach on Genesis 1 on Sunday. It is not loving to lie to children. It is not compassion to allow the state to indoctrinate these children to hurl them headlong over a pit that will destroy them. In the name of compassion, they are removing those who love their children from providing safeguards, sentencing children to painful, lifelong surgeries and dependence on mental health and hormonal interventions with an 87% chance of destroying them. I kept thinking of the verse, "Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel." If they have compassion at all, it's questionable. They may know the word, but they clearly misunderstand the concept.

It is not surprising that organizations like Planned Parenthood that have been taking the lives of children and lying to the public for years is also behind now sterilizing and destroying children after they are born. These organizations that have created catchy slogans to coverup the truth such as "women's reproductive rights" that actually means taking away their ability to reproduce and the children they are reproducing. And "bodily autonomy" while taking away the bodily autonomy of human beings. Or "clump of cells" to refer to precious faces, fingers, and toes who once they are born we've traditionally cherished. Or calling themself "Planned Parenthood" which has nothing to do with planning to be parents. It is the same population control and eugenic goals.

Other than the blue and pink haired misgendered people who told others not to "misgender" them by calling them by their actual gender, the rest were attorneys on that side. I wondered how much money went into their testimonies and how much they lied. While those defending their own rights were people who either show up time and again to have their testimonies discarded or were there for the first time because the danger finally got close enough to home for them.

For years, our rights have been eroding. For years, the pulpits have been silent, justifying their silence by calling it "political", when their consent and absence from the public square has allowed the evil and the demonic to fill the void. We are each called to be salt and light in a world of decay. Is this too little too late? Will it take brimstone and fire to get the attention of Denver and Boulder as it got the attention of Sodom and Gomorrah? Do I live far enough away on the plains of Colorado that I will escape? Already, I smell the stench of Denver and the darkness of the Capitol though many prayers have been prayed. God is clearly more patient than I am.

The blue and pink haired people can't seem to see past their pain to recognize that they are trying to do to others exactly what they do not want for themselves. They want their voices heard by silencing those who disagree with them. They want the children taken away from stable Christian families who do not agree with their destructive, sinful immorality. They want to persecute those who disagree with them, dismiss them as "haters" and "bigots" for not calling them by what they preferred to be called. They want to silence the opposition, not only silence those who oppose their lifestyle, but those who oppose the state dictating what may and may not be said, by promoting that only their personal perception is reality, not science, not theology, not anyone else's perception, not millennia of wisdom, not the historical documents inspired by God Himself.

And for the PhD's, theologians, doctors, parents, and grandparents in the room being told to be respectful while their rights were being stripped from them, I can feel the righteous anger rising. And I pray that this has finally woken the sleeping giant of the body of Christ, the millions of Christians in this state. And I pray it is not too little too late. These laws should absolutely be struck down. And those voting for them need to be fired in a free and fair election through same day voting, paper ballots, and verifiable hand counting. Because sometimes going back to the basics - like basic biology of xx and xy chromosomes and paper ballots - is the only way to move forward.

Whether or not this newsworthy event even gets mention in the media is doubtful. As like the government, the major outlets of media have also become corrupt and prioritize a dangerous ideology and government takeover over the human rights of people.

*Due to thousands of emails prior to the committee meeting, the committee struck three of the nine provisions of the bill, but the deeply flawed bill passed the Senate and now goes back to the House with revisions.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice. Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people;

His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. (Isaiah 5:20-25)

Faye Barnhart is a Life Affirming Specialist and Co-Founder of the Colorado Life Initiative. She was a women’s advocate for 19 years, served four pregnancy care centers in two states, including CEO of the largest pregnancy care center geographically in the United States, and served in a federal think tank on the co-occurrence of adult and child violence. A prelaw student who interned at the state Capitol and in media, she graduated with honors and pursued master's work in Organizational Leadership and a career in Communications for international ministries. She began in the prolife cause in the 1980’s, raised her children as a single parent, and is now married with an adopted special needs son and enjoys each of her grandchildren, including a grandbaby who needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and Lord as a small child and continues her walk with the Lord in daily dependence.