Christians Should Be Defiant in a Compliant Culture

Why would the Colorado House of Representatives ram two radical bills attacking parental rights and promoting sexual confusion through on a Sunday?

Clearly, they were wanting to reduce or eliminate the risk of objection from regular, common sense Colorado citizens. They were counting on the public to be looking the other way, be passive, or maybe even turn a blind eye.

They counted wrong.

The passage of HB25-1309 and HB25-1312 in the Colorado House has elicited national attention and local frustration, along with a united determination to fight back against the extremist bullies trying to co-opt the rights of parents in the Centennial State.

HB25-1309 mandates that every insurance plan in Colorado cover the cost sexual mutilation surgeries. There is no exemption for religious organizations.

HB25-1312 makes it legal for courts to remove sexually confused children from their parents if the mom and dad continue calling their child with the name they gave them at birth. It also requires schools that have dress codes to allow boys to dress like girls and vice versa without parental consent or guidance.

The bill even adds the terms “deadnaming” (using a child’s original name) and “misgendering” (failing to refer to a person by their nonbiological sex) to the litany of discriminatory acts under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

Our friend Erin Lee, who serves as the Executive Director of Protect Kids Colorado, told the Daily Citizen:

CO HB 25-1312, on its face, is a blatantly unconstitutional violation of free speech and parental rights. What I find especially dangerous is defining non-affirmation of gender confusion as “coercive control” and allowing the courts to use it against parents. They are essentially bullying parents into transitioning their children, or else lose them.

Parents have long been bullied by the suicide myth, that you must transition your child or else they will kill themself. Now the state is adding to that: Transition your child or else we will take them from you. It fortifies our status as a wrong-sex mutilation sanctuary state, encouraging more people to move here and transition their children.

To put it simply, the Colorado legislature has declared war on the parental rights of mothers and fathers. 

Labeling parents “child abusers” and even comparing them to the KKK, these radical lawmakers expect citizens to bow to the state’s aggression or lose custody of their own flesh and blood.

Concerns of organizations like Focus on the Family were silenced and ignored, with one legislator who voted in favor of the bill calling us “hate groups” who don’t deserve an ear.

Children struggling with sexual identity confusion need real help from parents who affirm biological reality, not state coercion of their parents to place them on a path of lifelong medical issues, sterility and regret.

In Colorado and other liberal states, legislators are hoping their people will be compliant and go along with their radical, revolutionary agendas.

Instead, moms and dads, especially, are resisting, as well they should. That’s why homeschooling is rising. That’s why groups like American Heritage Girls and Trail Life USA are growing.

Christians are called to be defiant in a compliant world.

That’s what the apostle Paul was suggesting when he wrote, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).  

Jesus warned that defiance comes at a price. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you,” He said. ^“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours” (John 15:18-20).

Focus on the Family is working with our partners and allies to determine ways to defeat this legislation, through the political process and in the courts.

Colorado’s catastrophic and chilling hostility towards mothers and fathers is legislative malpractice that abandons and harms the very children they claim to want to help.

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