Liberty on the Rocks™ Denver

Once upon a time, Ted Haggard was the respected senior pastor of the gigantic New Life Church in Colorado Springs. He was let go after news surfaced that he had hired a drug-dealing male prostitute to do who knows what. Now, the AP reports, there are new allegations that he had a lengthy sexual relationship [...]

January 22 marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that liberalized abortion law. Last year Diana Hsieh and I reviewed the reasons why that’s a good thing. But the religious right, driven by religious faith, ignores the reasons why abortion should remain legal.
The Rocky Mountain News reports, “Abortion is the [...]

Often we hear religious apologists claim that atheism is just another religion, and that one must have “faith” to be an atheist just as one must have faith to worship Jesus.
But atheism is not a positive belief system at all. It merely rules out belief in God and the supernatural. Atheism is no more a [...]

“A right-wing lawmaker should be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred with anti-Islamic statements that include calling the Koran a ‘fascist book,’ a Dutch court ruled Wednesday.”
Because the best way to demonstrate that the Koran is not a “fascist book” is to promote fascism in the name of the Koran.
Unfortunately, and hypocritically, the lawmaker in question [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable friends:
The magical aura of change and hope that seemed to bewitch the nation today was not quite strong enough to ensorcell Wall Street, which continued its consistent, if volatile, fear driven trend downward. But today, I am told, is not about policy or economics; rather it is about fun and [...]

I disliked quite a lot about Rick Warren’s prayer at Barack Obama’s inauguration. But he did have one excellent line, that we are united not by race and not by religion, but by our commitment to freedom. To the degree that the religious right — and the religious left — takes that insight seriously, we [...]

Colorado Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll preached yesterday at the First Baptist Church in Denver, “All of us have a call to service.”
He told the Rocky Mountain News, “I think here I have a lot more freedom to make appeals based on moral grounds. Across the street, I have to couch them in different [...]

Karin Hill is a hero who helped other passengers evacuate the plane that recently landed in the Hudson River. Nicely done. We all can be grateful that nobody was killed, and that crew and passengers alike acted bravely.
However, I must point out the problems with a comment by Karin’s understandably relieved and proud mother. She [...]

Alan Sears argues “the fight for religious liberty is the fight for life,” i.e., the fight to ban abortion. In other words, Sears, a former federal prosecutor, believes that the “liberty” of some permits them to impose their religious faith by force of law on others.
Sears quotes Madison, who said that one’s duty to God [...]