Bob Unruh vs. Colorado, Round 3

WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh loves to rage against his home state of Colorado, and he did so again in an Oct. 30 article:

The leftists holding state power in Colorado are making it abundantly clear: They want their favorite leftist judges to be running the United States, not the duly elected president.

The proof comes in the fact they have sued the Trump administration 41 times already.

Their latest agenda is to keep the financial benefits of the nation’s Space Command headquarters within their borders.

Courthousenews explains the newest fight:

“The state of Colorado and its attorney general Phil Weiser challenged President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, in a Wednesday lawsuit.”

Weiser, an ardent Democrat, insists, “The Constitution does not permit the executive to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully exercising sovereign powers reserved for the states, as President Trump and the executive branch have unlawfully done here.”

He opposes Trump’s executive order to move the base, according to the report, “in retaliation for Colorado’s robust vote by mail program — an executive action Colorado says violates the state’s sovereignty.”

Weiser even warns that Trump can “influence” Colorado’s election, “then the executive branch can seize other powers not delegated by the Constitution.”

The federal government, in fact, does “set some standards for voting systems, including standards for their functionality and their accessibility to individuals with disabilities, older individuals, and members of language minority groups,” according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. And the president is commander of the nation’s military.

Further, the federal government’s Election Assistance Commission, created under federal law, establishes guidelines for systems used in states.

The Space Command has called Colorado Springs home since Trump created it in 2019, and Joe Biden made Peterson Space Force Base the formal home.

But Trump said Colorado elections, mandated by Democrats in the state to be by mail-in ballots, a system that allows for corruption more easily than some other options, are a concern.

Unruh does not back up any of his claims here — that Weiser is an “ardent Democrat,” that mail-in elections are inherently corrupt, or even that the state has sued the Trump administration 41 times. Unruh also failed to give Weiser or any other Colorado official a chance to respond to his attacks. He did, however, try to give examples of Colorado lawsuits against the administration:

The report said Colorado already has “filed and joined” 41 lawsuits against Trump.

Other topics include the disputed practice, under “birthright citizenship,” of giving tourist babies and children born to illegal alien criminals American citizenship.

Also Colorado has attacked Trump over National Institutes of Health funding for research, an attempt to block the Department of Government Efficiency from even using the Treasury’s central payment system, an attempt to block a freeze on federal cash handouts, disputes over Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rules, and more.

No explanation was given for why Unruh opposes any of these lawsuits, or why they supposedly are unnecessary.

Unruh began a Nov. 13 article with a lengthy list of partisan grievances:

Colorado has a long history of extremism, from racism to charges that it is continuing slavery.

One of its counties, Gilpin, a few years back paid out $700,000 after officials in government documents repeatedly referred to a black resident as “N—– Roy.”

A pending lawsuit claims the leftist state – it’s run by Democrats in the governor’s office, legislature and state Supreme Court – is continuing “slavery” in its work programs for prison inmates.

State officials are demanding that taxpayers nationwide fund the lucrative abortion industry, and it long has pushed the radicalism of having boys who say they are girls in girls’ showers with the females.

It has had more school shootings that just about anywhere else, the latest just weeks ago in Evergreen.

It also has a long history of attacking Christians. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for a decade for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.

That’s despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.

Same thing happened with the state’s demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.

Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients.

It’s not until the 11th paragraph that Unruh get around to the point of this article, that officials in the Denver suburb of Northglenn “are attacking three local churches for meeting to “worship, pray, study Scripture, and share meals.” It’s not until later that Unruh gets around to mentioning that these religious services are taking place in a public park — and he completely censors the fact that city officials have called the twice-a-week gatherings as too loud and disruptive. Again, he censored the viewpoint of city officials.

Unruh raged again in a Nov. 14 article:

Colorado’s years-long campaign to discriminate against and suppress Christians has added another chapter.

And it’s in court again, in the state’s deliberate discrimination against Christian preschools.

In this case, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Catholic Archdiocese in Denver, a group of Catholic preschools, and a Catholic family are asking for a ruling that stops the state from excluding them from a state program generally available to all others, except them.

It is the state’s “universal” preschool program that was set up by Democrats in the legislature and Democrat homosexual Gov. Jared Polis to exclude schools of faith from benefits that otherwise are generally available.

Unruh did not explain what relevance Polis’ sexuality has to this case. Still, he huffed:

Colorado’s long history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.

That’s despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.

Same thing happened with the state’s demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.

Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children’s camp.

Unruh identified no “transgender beliefs” the state supposedly has. Again, he prohibited state officials from having a say here.

Unruh’s war on Colorado for not being as right-wing as he is continued in a Nov. 17 article:

A Colorado family wants to punish the town of Elizabeth for ticketing their son, now an adult, for an alleged curfew violation that was based on an unconstitutional law.

Technically, the family is suing for years of out-of-pocket costs for court battles, compensatory damages, and even punitive damages. Plus lawyers’ fees and interest.

It is at Complete Colorado that the situation is described.

Michael and Jennifer Saunders, along with their now-adult son Joseph, are suing the town for the curfew ticket issued to a then 17-year-old Joseph several years ago.

It was in 2021 when he was returning home from a Saturday evening with friends, with his parents’ permission.

It was a little after midnight that Elizabeth police officers stopped a group of people and cited the high school boys for the curfew violation.

Yes, the parents are suing over a curfew law. And they are heavily whining about it, as Unruh details:

The parents spent “thousands of dollars defending” this case, according to their complaint, and the “entire family suffered extreme emotional distress from the incident, the Parents were ridiculed by others in the community, and they were afraid to allow their children to travel within the Town of Elizabeth at any time. The Parents feared reprisal from the Town and the Police Department. The Parents experienced great stress and lived in fear that they may be improperly parenting their children.”

It cites, specifically, “damages for pain and suffering, physical injury, mental and emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and all other non-economic and economic damages.”

As is usual for Unruh, he refused to tell the city’s side of the story.

The same day, Unruh obsessed over Denver being ranked sixth on a list of America’s “most sinful cities”:

Denver exceled at “anger & hatred,” which to state residents isn’t a surprise based on the state’s long-term agenda to attack Christians and Christianity.

The state’s history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Phillips, of Masterpiece Cakeshop, has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.

That’s despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.

Same thing happened with the state’s demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.

Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children’s camp.

Most recently, the state was sued for an anti-Christian discrimination in a program purportedly providing preschool to children.

The report said, “Data points in the anger and hatred category include violent crime rates, bullying, hate groups, gun deaths and mass shootings. In the lust category, the study looked at adult entertainment establishments, online searches for ‘XXX Entertainment’ and ‘Tinder’ and teen birth rates.”

Denver was No. 2 among dozens and dozens of cities evaluated for excesses in drinking and vices.

No other city — including top-ranked Las Vegas — received a similarly detailed list of alleged offenses.

Unruh ranted in a Nov. 20 article:

In a state that long has pursued an aggressive anti-Christian agenda through its official actions, including the LGBT activism of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, it now is school children who are being targeted, according to a report from ADF’s legal team.

That group now has filed a briefing with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opposing a school district policy that “directs that students should be ‘assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share the student’s gender identity’ rather than rooming by sex.”

Further, officials in the district involved, Jefferson County, refuse “to give parents truthful, pertinent information about their children’s overnight accommodations, thus hampering parents’ ability to make informed decisions about their children’s education and privacy.”

The school simply lets children say they are boys or girls, and then assigns roommates for overnight outings based on what the children say.

Again, Unruh refused to tell the school district’s side of the story.

Unruh continued his vicious hatred for transgender people in a Dec. 5 article:

One portion of a massive lawsuit triggered by an agenda by state officials in Colorado to mandate transgender ideology for all public schools has been settled, and it will allow a Colorado Springs-based district and multiple other plaintiffs to keep boys on boys’ athletic teams, and girls on girls’ athletic teams.

According to a statement from the district, D-49, the fight with the Colorado High School Activities Association has been settled.

The problem is that Colorado law and the CHSAA bylaws demand that students be put on sports teams based on the ideology of “gender identity,” not their sex at birth.

That was a common scheme during the tenure of Joe Biden in Washington, as he promoted transgenderism up and down the scale of government.

However, President Donald Trump confirmed on being elected to his second term that the government recognized only male and female, setting up a conflict between federal policy and standards adopted by Democrats and other leftists in the extremist state.

It’s so far left that it is run by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, a homosexual and advocate for the ideology, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that is so extreme it even tried to banish Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot before being squashed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Unruh didn’t explain how failure to hate transgender people the way he does makes an entire state “extremist.”

Unruh lashed out at Democratic senators from Colorado in a Dec. 19 article:

It’s been only a few weeks since the government opened up again, after a Democrat-instigated shutdown that lasted weeks and cost taxpayers a ton of money.

It was a failed attempt to force Republicans in Congress to raid taxpayers’ wallets for more than a trillion dollars for benefits for illegal aliens and other Democrat Party priorities.

Now another shutdown could be looming, again because of Democrats.

The latest conflict arose when Senate Republicans were trying to advance a funding deal before the end of the year.

But Colorado Democrats refused.

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It was Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet who messed up the works, the report said.

They erupted over Trump administration plans for changes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in their leftist state’s most leftist enclave of Boulder.

It means money for that party-university town.

Unruh failed to prove that the University of Colorado is a party university or even that Boulder is the state’s “most leftist enclave.” Unsurprisingly, Unruh refused to give Bennet and Hickenlooper an opportunity to respond to his attack.

Unruh ranted even more in a Dec. 21 article:

Christian ministers do Christian ministry, and that’s what a number of volunteers from several churches in Northglenn, Colorado, were doing just days ago.

They were setting up tables in a public park preparing to distribute hot meals to the homeless, as they have done every Tuesday and Thursday for more than four years.

However, on this day, the churches’ ministers had to leave early, because they had court dates on city-issued tickets for violating a city rule, according to a new report from the American Center for Law and Justice, which is defending them.

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“These pastors had done nothing wrong. For years, their gatherings caused no complaints, no disruptions, despite attempts from the city to pin unrelated 911 calls on the outreach. They used the park on a first-come, first-served basis, just like countless secular groups – pickleball clubs, fitness classes, walking groups – that continue meeting without interference. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that public parks ‘have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public,’ and later called parks ‘quintessential public forums,’” the report said.

Still, the city targeted the pastors and their churches, “enacting a resolution seemingly designed to shut them down, and then issuing criminal citations that carry the threat of conviction for following Christ’s command.”

The ACLJ already has filed a separate federal lawsuit against the city to strike the “discriminatory ordinance and hold officials accountable for their hostility toward religious expression.”

WorldNetDaily previously has reported on the long history of outrageous discrimination and extremism generated by the leftist state of Colorado.

In fact, as we documented, city officials have called the twice-a-week gatherings as too loud and disruptive. Unruh once again censored the city’s side of the story.

Unruh wrote in an unusually detailed Oct. 22 article:

Casino gambling was approved by voters for the historic Colorado mining towns of Black Hawk and Central City some decades ago.

Since then, there have been many controversies over the industry that is given to installing Las Vegas landscapes at the 8,000-foot elevations of the Colorado foothills towns.

For example, the historic Lace House, in the way of one casino project, simply was picked up and moved to another, non-historic, location and made part of a tourist stop.

Multiple tall casinos, up to about 35 stories, now tower above the valley in Black Hawk that used to be flooded in the spring, in an “ick” procedure, when, according to local personalities, wealthy Central City residents would release water to flush the sewage that had accumulated on the streets and ditches over the winter, downhill to Black Hawk.

Central City patrons were the elites of their time, patronizing their own opera house, at times used as a stage by some of the elite performers including Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Fanie Barlow, Buffalo Bill, P.T. Barnum’s circus, later Samuel Ramey and Beverly Sills.

Central City, in another controversial move, spent millions annexing land and building an 8-mile-long “main street” to access an exit from Interstate 70 that would have gamblers direct access to their town.

The towns are in Gilpin County, which has its own history of scandalous and offensive behavior including racism. Even after the casinos started appearing, the county paid $700,000 to settle a lawsuit by a black county resident who, stunningly, was identified in official sheriff’s department documents as “N***** Roy.”

Now it is G3 Gaming, of Raleigh, N.C., that is proposing the Gregory Gulch Gaming Resort project, which would be 100,000 square feet, 1,000 slot machines, 50 gaming tables, gift shops, restaurants, 600 hotel rooms, 2,000 parking spaces and 120 housing units for workers in the very valley that connects Central City’s heights to Black Hawk, downhill.

Unruh didn’t disclose, however, that he has a history of activism and legal action in Gilpin County that calls his objectivity into question. ConWebWatch has previously noted that Unruh sued the Gilpin County school district because his daughter was allegedly prohibited from handing out invitations to her Bible club during non-class hours, which resulted in Unruh being awarded $1 in damages plus attorneys’ fees. But there’s more.

In 2019, Unruh’s wife, Patti, refused to do a full review of a high school performance of the play “She Kills Monsters” for the local weekly newspaper, declaring it to be “lewd and profane.” This exploded into the Unruhs filing a defamation lawsuit the following year against the newspaper’s owner, citing in part letters to the editor the paper published. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2021, citing the state’s anti-SLAPP law. Additionally, the Unruhs along with their son Brian were removed from membership in a local church in 2020 and prohibited from entering the property, with officials stating that despite a prior removal, the Unruhs continued to represent themselves as having authority to discuss church matters.

Again, Unruh refused to disclose any of this information to his readers. That — along with his war on Colorado for not being sufficiently far right — should raise questions about the objectivity of anything he writes.