religion
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Abortion: A great religious divide that also unites faithful opponents and supporters
When anyone seeks counsel regarding abortion from Rabbi Jay Sherwood, leader of Temple Shalom, Colorado Springs’ largest Jewish synagogue, he cites Jewish law, which, he maintains, subscribes to an undisputed rabbinical conclusion that life begins at birth, not at conception. Sherwood points to the Talmud, the main source of Jewish religious law and theology, referencing the unborn…
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Catholic church in Boulder defiled following Roe v. Wade draft opinion leak
The national debate over the future of Roe v. Wade spilled into Boulder on Wednesday morning in the form of graffiti. For the second time in a year, parishioners at a Boulder Catholic church were horrified at the messages that greeted them for 7 a.m. Mass. Vandals spray-painted abortion-rights messages across Sacred Heart of Mary’s…
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Federal judge tosses Safeway employee’s religious discrimination claim against company
A federal judge has determined a Weld County woman failed to show that her employer, Safeway, discriminated and retaliated against her on the basis of her religion. Brenda Medina, a Safeway worker for more than two decades, claimed the Fort Collins store where she worked had forced her to take unpaid leave during the winter…
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10th Circuit reinstates group prayer lawsuit of 1993 WTC bomber
The federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated a Muslim inmate’s religious liberty lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a lower court misunderstood the level of access prison officials were providing to group prayer. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit sided with Ahmad Ajaj, who…
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Federal judge allows Muslim inmate’s claims to proceed based on denial of religious diet
A Muslim inmate has plausibly alleged that the Colorado Department of Corrections and two food services workers violated his rights by canceling his religious diet, a federal judge decided in allowing the claims of Ray Anthony Smith to proceed. Smith is seeking to force the department to update its food list to reflect items that are…
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Colorado Springs historian explores race, religion
Billy Graham spoke for many white Christians when he warned Martin Luther King Jr. that he was “going too far too fast.” King was frustrated that whites didn’t embrace the crusade for racial justice and equality, writing his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to “My Fellow Clergymen.” “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the…
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House panel rejects what some called an Amendment 2 repeat
DENVER – A bill many feared would take Colorado back to its 1992 reputation as the “hate state” failed in a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday night on a party-line vote. House Bill 1206 would have allowed those with “sincerely-held religious beliefs” to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals, according to witnesses who testified on the…
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This Week at the Capitol: March 26-30
Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead at the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. Click here and scroll down to committee hearings to listen online. This week, the House will take up the Long Appropriations Bill, which is scheduled to be…