Liberty on the Rocks™ Denver

COCORE will purchase eleven Colorado billboards stating, “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone,” the Rocky Mountain News reports.
COCORE is “an umbrella organization of 11 groups ranging from the Boulder Heretics to the Humanists of Colorado.” I wanted a bit more detail, so I looked up the organization’s web page.
The Colorado Coalition of Reason [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.

Honorable Friends:

We are now past the election, but I cannot stop thinking of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and the Dodo’s jolly caucus race. Do you recall the scene? The Dodo perches atop a pillar of rock on a beach, presiding over a crowd of critters running endlessly around his pillar in [...]

Colorado just defeated Amendment 48 by 73 to 27 percent. The measure would have defined a fertilized egg as a person in Colorado’s constitution, with all the rights to life, liberty, property, equality of justice, and due process of law. I worked with Diana Hsieh to help defeat it.
I’ve been meaning to reply to an [...]

J.C. Watts argues in an article for the Las Vegas Review Journal:
In 2006, 66 percent of the evangelical community did not vote. In 2004, 52 percent of evangelicals did not vote. In 2000, 75 percent did not vote.
I haven’t seen any stats on 2008 yet, but I’m not confident that McCain attracted a large segment [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable friends,
This year, as I handed out candy to trick-or-treaters for Samhain/Halloween, I received a terrible cold in exchange. I spent the last few days sniffling and moaning in bed. At some point, I recall watching a somewhat blurry talking head announce that Barack Obama had just won the [...]

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As I anticipated, the huge loss of Amendment 48 has not dampened the plans of the religious right. The measure would have defined a fertilized egg as a person in Colorado’s constitution.
A blogger named Dani emphasizes the point. Dani is “a right-wing Christian fanatic on assignment from God to be a good helper to my [...]

Salon has published an article about the politics of New Life Church. This is the paragraph that struck me:
“I’m not going to tell you who to vote for,” [Senior Pastor Brady Boyd] said. “You pray, fast and vote for whoever God tells you represents your values. We have a biblical worldview here, so vote for [...]

Some friends of mine are interested in using the 95 for a transparency project in Michigan. This is a simple embed of a mogulus channel connected to one of those peoples press cameras. Its going to be interesting to see where they go with this technology.
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Here I extend a debate over Amendment 48, which would define a fertilized egg as a person in Colorado’s constitution. I also want also to summarize the major issues, so hopefully the piece will be of interest even to those who haven’t followed that debate so far.
A few days ago the Colorado Springs Gazette published [...]