from WND:
Supporter earlier expressed Dem perspective, that parental rights groups are like the KKK
The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill Sunday that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” after Democrats cited the Southern Poverty Law Center to justify excluding parental rights groups from discussion on the bill.
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The bill, HB 1312, passed with 36 votes in favor, 20 against, and nine absent in a largely party-line vote. One Democrat, Bob Marshall, voted against the bill.
The Colorado House of Representatives has 43 Democrats and 22 Republicans.
Rep. Jarvis Caldwell, a Republican, accused the House Democrats of silencing debate on the issue because they knew their position is unpopular.
“After preventing us from the ability to debate, Colorado House Democrats rammed through HB 1312,” Caldwell told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “It’s codifying into law that if their ideology confuses your child, and you don’t affirm that delusion, you’re committing child abuse and can lose custody of your child.”
“We have now crossed the Rubicon of parental rights with this bill,” he added.
Caldwell noted that the Democrat majority invoked Rule 16, which calls the question and ends debate, leading to a vote. “I believe they did this to silence us because they know how much negative attention this has been getting nationwide,” he said in a video message Sunday.
Here are my thoughts on what transpired today with being silenced and robbed of speaking on behalf of my 90,000 House District 20 constituents about HB25-1312. #coleg #copolitics pic.twitter.com/hsLMwkVoaR
— Rep. Jarvis Caldwell (@RepCaldwell) April 6, 2025
Comparing Parents to the KKK
The bill has garnered nationwide attention after Rep. Yara Zokaie, a Democrat, compared parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan in a hearing on the bill last week.
When Caldwell asked whether “parent groups that are not part of the LGBT community” were involved in discussing the bill, Zokaie ridiculed the idea.
