Below is an excerpt from my most recent column with Colorado Politics, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and the Denver Gazette. You can read the full piece here.
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If the state were to mandate all our little ones attend a Christian, Muslim, or Jewish preschool, I’d stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my counterpart in vehement protest. That would absolutely be in violation of our Constitution.
But that isn’t the scenario we’re discussing in Colorado.
Nobody is being forced to send their child to a school that teaches any certain religion. Nobody, that I’ve seen, is even suggesting such nonsense. Instead, the state has proclaimed its desire to specifically exclude those choices for parents in the near future.