Bob Unruh vs. Colorado
The WorldNetDaily writer keeps turning "news" articles about his home state into tirades about how it and its officials are not as right-wing as he and WND are.
WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh really seems to hate his home state of Colorado, where he once worked for the Associated Press — every “news” article he writes about the state seems to include an editorializing non-news screed about how liberal the state is. Unruh played servile stenographer for a Republican activist in Colorado in an April 2024 article:
A spokesman for the Denver Republican Woman organization is warning that a new plan in the Democrat-run state legislature in Colorado is dangerous to a free society.
Because it would end up in speech controls not heard of since … “1984.”
That would be the novel “1984” by George Orwell, whose dystopian plot included a “Ministry of Truth,” absolute speech controls, and very little truth allowed.
Republican Women vice president Ashley Troxell, in fact, has written at Complete Colorado, “Novelist George Orwell’s vision of government-controlled thought and speech has taken a disturbing turn in Colorado with the introduction of Senate Bill 24-084. Sponsored by Senator Lisa Cutter and Representative Lorena García, both Democrats, the ‘Attorney General Duties to Prevent Mis- & Dis-information’ reads like a page straight from Orwell’s classic novel ‘1984,’ and should send shudders down the spine of freedom-loving Coloradans.”
She cited the Democrats’ demands for state-monitored “curriculum” that would be intended to “facilitate productive and honest conversations” on various issues.
“On the surface, this may seem like a well-intentioned effort to combat misinformation. But Orwell warns about the perils of government-controlled thought and speech. Echoing the tactics of the Thought Police in Orwell’s novel, the bill represents a troubling encroachment on the fundamental freedoms that form the bedrock of our democracy,” she explained.
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“We cannot allow our lawmakers to twist rhetoric in service of an Orwellian agenda. The people of Colorado should see Senate Bill 84 for what it is: a blueprint for thought control, cloaked in the language of public safety. Orwell’s vision has become our reality, and we cannot afford to let our fundamental freedoms be gradually chipped away,” she said.
None of that is true. As the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition reported, the bill would simply fund a study, not create a “ministry of truth.” It quoted an assistant attorney general pointing out that the bill “does not put the attorney general in a position to decide what is or is not mis- or disinformation or what is a fact. It will not put him in a position to decide who can post what and when. What it will do is allow us to study the relevant laws, both state and federal, statutory and constitutional, to understand what is the legal framework when looking at this issue.” He added that the proposed study would be like “a law review article … because it will allow us to understand the First Amendment impacts, of what they may or may not have on misinformation. There is no predetermined outcome here.”
Nowhere in his article did Unruh bother to tell readers this information — even though just a few days earlier, his employer tried to scold the Associated Press for allegedly refusing to report the “other side” of stories. Apparently, Unruh and WND have exempted themselves from the journalistic standards they demand from others.
He served up a longer screed in a May 7 article:
Colorado’s voting population was a largely Republican majority from 1880 to the early 2000s, with the party sometimes winning with a majority of 65%.
Then, history shows, several leftist billionaires donated heavily to state-level political races, for the state House and state Senate, and even the governor’s office. The candidates they funded became the majority.
Since then, leftists have been running the state, with the current Democrat majority in the state House, Senate, governor’s office and even the all-Democrat state Supreme Court, which radically even tried – and failed – to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot.
The result has seen officials in Denver try repeatedly to control and mandate the thoughts and beliefs of business owners, with mandates supporting the LGBT ideology.
After all, Gov. Jared Polis is homosexual and brought his “first husband” to the governor’s mansion. But they’ve been slapped down, hard, twice by the Supreme Court already even as a third similar case is pending at the high court.
Unruh finally gets around to the “news” part of his article:
What also has happened is that Democrats in charge of state offices and coffers have turned their taxpayer-funded machinery into a weapon against Trump.
They’ve used tax revenues from the now-majority Democrats, as well as from the 43% minority Republicans, to sue the Trump administration 15 times.
The state’s political divisions are common to many states: Tens of thousands of square miles of rangeland and mountains are staunchly Republican. City centers, like Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins, are dominated by Democrats.
It is a report in Westword that documented how Phil Weiser, the far-left Democrat attorney general, “has joined or filed over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration.
So far in 2025.
Unruh offered no evidence that Weier is far-left.” And he didn’t mention that Republican attorneys general loved to file lawsuits against the Biden administration — indeed, Republican Texas attorney general Ken Paxton bragged of filing 100 lawsuits against the Biden administration.
In other words, this is not “news” — it’s standard operating procedure. But because Unruh is a highly biased and very lazy reporter, you won’t know that.
The rage continues
Unruh raged against the state again in a May 13 article:
Twice already officials in the state of Colorado have gone to the Supreme Court in their misplaced campaign to control the thoughts, beliefs, and religious expression of individuals in the state.
Twice they’ve lost, getting scolded for exhibiting “hostility” to Christianity.
And a third case yet is pending before the high court.
Colorado taxpayers already have been stung for millions of dollars in the failed ideology imposed on them by leftist leaders – a Democrat governor, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that at one point wildly tried, and failed, to grab control of the entire 2024 presidential election by barring President Donald Trump from the ballot.
But that’s not enough damage, those state officials have decided.
It is the Colorado Department of Early Childhood that now has changed policies so that a longtime Christian youth camp is being ordered to promote the anti-Christ mindset of transgenderism.
In direct violation to its religious beliefs and constitutionally protected religious rights.
So transgender people are literally the “anti-Christ”? That’s a strange, extreme theology Unruh follows. He also doesn’t explain why Christians must viciously hate transgender people the way he does, though he did give it a shot by insisting that there is no such thing as transgender people, as ordered by Donald Trump:
President Donald Trump simply decided that the position of the U.S. government is that there are two sexes, male and female, and they don’t change back and forth.
For those who follow the science, such ideology in fact is a myth, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
He did this yet again in a May 21 article in which he once more accuses the state of having an “anti-Christ agenda”:
Yet another lawsuit has been filed against the state of Colorado over its years-long agenda to impose anti-Christian beliefs on Christian people and organizations.
The state, run by leftist Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, Democrat-majority House and Senate bodies, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that in pursuit of its partisan agenda tried to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential election ballot, has taken actions dating back years already in its pro-LGBT, pro-abortion ideologies.
The problem is they conflict with the Constitution, as the Supreme Court already has ruled multiple times.
A new report at the Christian Post explains the latest action comes from a national grassroots group, Defending Education, which sued Colorado over its new law that also punishes parents who don’t support transgender beliefs adopted by their children.
A new state law makes it “a discriminatory act to refuse to call trans-identifying individuals by their chosen name.”
Unruh doesn’t explain why that’s a bad thing. Instead, he rehashed his earlier anti-Colorado screed.
Unruh was at it again in a June 4 article:
For the third time in just a handful of years, Colorado is at the U.S. Supreme Court over its demands that it control the faith, beliefs and speech of people in its state.
Specifically, people who do business. First it was a cake baker, then a web designer and now it’s a counselor.
In the newest case, which is just developing at the high court, the state is demanding that Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor, share only the state-approved faith messages regarding the LGBT agenda.
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It’s the state’s adopted beliefs in the LGTB ideologies that are at issue.
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Colorado officials have made it illegal to encourage, through counseling, that people, including young people, abandon the LGBT ideology and work to establish a comfort level being the sex they were born.
Yet, it’s about Colorado’s ban on anti-gay conversion therapy. WND has tried to rebrandconversion therapy for years, and he does so here by accepting the framing of a right-wing legal group that this coercive process is merely “private conversations” and “free speech.” Unruh wasn’t done ranting against Colorado, though:
Twice before it has intervened in Colorado’s attempts to dictate beliefs and ideologies.
It first tried to force a baker, Jack Phillips at Masterpiece Cakeshop, to express a pro-LGBT message that violated his religious faith. The high court ended up scolding the state for its “hostility” to Christianity, and the state ended up being sued by Phillips for its unconstitutional actions.
Colorado, led by homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat-majority legislature and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court, which is so leftist it blatantly tried to interfere with the 2024 presidential election by banning President Donald Trump from the ballot (it was overturned), tried the same scheme against a web designer, at 303 Creative, and took a major loss, again, from the Supreme Court.
It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an often overturned panel, that affirmed the Colorado scheme to censor Christian perspectives.
In none of these articles did Unruh bother to contact any state official in Colorado for their views — that’s because, again, Unruh is a stenographer and not a reporter.
LGBT and taxes
Unruh did this again in a June 6 article:
For the third time in just a handful of years, Colorado is at the U.S. Supreme Court over its demands that it control the faith, beliefs and speech of people in its state.
Specifically, people who do business. First it was a cake baker, then a web designer and now it’s a counselor.
In the newest case, which is just developing at the high court, the state is demanding that Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor, share only the state-approved faith messages regarding the LGBT agenda.
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It’s the state’s adopted beliefs in the LGTB ideologies that are at issue.
“The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors,” Jim Campbell, a lawyer for the ADF, said. “There is a growing consensus around the world that adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria need love and an opportunity to talk through their struggles and feelings. Colorado’s law harms these young people by depriving them of caring and compassionate conversations with a counselor who helps them pursue the goals they desire.”
Colorado officials have made it illegal to encourage, through counseling, that people, including young people, abandon the LGBT ideology and work to establish a comfort level being the sex they were born.
This, of course, is just another attempt by Unruh and WND to rebrand anti-LGBT conversion therapy as something benign. Given the typically coercive and denigrating nature of conversion therapy, it’s laughable for the ADF to claim it’s all about “love” and “caring.” Nevertheless, this promoted Unruh to go yet another anti-Colorado tirade:
Twice before it has intervened in Colorado’s attempts to dictate beliefs and ideologies.
It first tried to force a baker, Jack Phillips at Masterpiece Cakeshop, to express a pro-LGBT message that violated his religious faith. The high court ended up scolding the state for its “hostility” to Christianity, and the state ended up being sued by Phillips for its unconstitutional actions.
Colorado, led by homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat-majority legislature and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court, which is so leftist it blatantly tried to interfere with the 2024 presidential election by banning President Donald Trump from the ballot (it was overturned), tried the same scheme against a web designer, at 303 Creative, and took a major loss, again, from the Supreme Court.
It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an often overturned panel, that affirmed the Colorado scheme to censor Christian perspectives.
Unruh doesn’t explain how right-wing hatred of LGBT people is a “Christian perspective.” Unruh rehashed another grievance in a June 19 article:
The Department of Justice recently told Colorado elections officials it wants to review all the data from the 2024 election. And whatever still remains available from 2020.
And state officials have claimed it’s a “fishing expedition” to try to help Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who was convicted and sentenced to years in prison essentially for trying to salvage a copy of the 2020 vote data when faced with orders from a state officials to erase the details.
Peters was a conservative in the far-left state, where the all-Democrat state Supreme Court partisanly tried to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. Where virtually all of the top state leaders in the governor’s office and legislature are virulently anti-Trump.
Where leftists in population centers like Denver and Boulder openly advocate for Americans’ rights to be violated in order to protect illegal alien criminals. Where abortion was made a state constitutional “right” and the state constitution’s protection for voters against massive overtaxing plans routinely is undermined.
For example, Democrat lawmakers, faced with constitutional limits on raising “taxes,” routinely hike them anyway and then simply call them “fees.” For example, state residents who license vehicles and pay taxes have to pay a “fee” for roads and bridges. Visitors to the state using the same roads and bridges don’t pay that “fee.”
Roads and taxes have absolutely nothing to do with the purported election issues Unruh is supposed to be writing about, but that’s not going to stop him from ranting about it. And Unruh is lying about Peters. She was not imprisoned “essentially for trying to salvage a copy of the 2020 vote data when faced with orders from a state officials to erase the details”; she was imprisoned because she allowed a security card accessing her county’s election system to be misused by a fellow election denier, and was then deceptive about who that person was. Prosecutors and the judge pointed out that Peters was trying to make herself famous by promoting fraud claims, even though no vote discrepancies were found in Mesa County.
The rest of Unruh’s article is a attack on Colorado secretary of state Jena Griswold, copy-and-pasted from a right-wing website, for objecting to the Trump administration’s fishing expedition into the state’s election data.
Unruh’s weird rage at his home state for failing to be a den of right-wing ideology continued in a July 9 article:
A newly published commentary notes that Colorado Democrats in the state legislature, who with other Democrats control virtually every aspect of Colorado’s government, are fleeing – en masse.
At least 20% of the lawmakers who sit in Denver making rules and regulations for their taxpayers have not been elected; they were appointed by party elites, much like Kamala Harris was appointed to be the party’s 2024 presidential candidate.
Unruh’s attacks got more personal:
Absolute Democrat control in the state that used to swing back and forth regularly between Democrat and Republican majorities developed two decades ago. That was when, according to a report from American Majority, that the “Gang of Four” billionaires and lowly multi-millionaires essentially bought the state government.
Rutt Bridges, now-Gov. Jared Polis, Tim Gill and Pat Stryker, all pushing the extremes of the leftist agenda, conspired to use their wealth to organize a new Democrat party, “from policy generation to leadership recruiting, coalition building to grassroots activation.”
Stryker is a billionaire heiress to a medical tech fortune, and she donated $1.5 million in support of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign; Gill started Quark, Bridges once said he had “more money than I could spend,” and Polis took advantage of early dot-com miscalculations, selling online rights to his parents Blue Mountain Arts greeting card slogans to another company for hundreds of millions of dollars, which then collapsed, and he bought them back at a fraction of the original price.
He spent $1 million to his political start, a seat on the Colorado Board of Education which is an unpaid, part-time time. His GOP opponent raised $10,000, and, reports said, had offered to drop out if Polis has split the difference and given him $500,000.
The report noted what the “Gang” did was flood races with money that no local Republican candidate could hope to compete with, using “dozens” of 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) and 527 organizations that they personally funded.
The result? “The Democrat Party didn’t win Colorado: the progressive left did. They simply used the Democrat Party as a vehicle by which to achieve their political ends.”
Note that Unruh is so angry that he won’t point out, like a responsible journalist would, that the report he quotes deliberately gets the name of the Democratic Party wrong, and he didn’t explain why he’s so mad at rich liberals when he doesn’t have the same disdain for rich right-wingers. Unruh’s hate continued:
Since then, there’s been a long list of Democrat governors. The state House and Senate have near veto-proof Democrat majorities. The state’s top officials are all Democrats.
The agenda has been made clear by their goals and actions.
An all-Democrat state Supreme Court tried to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, only to be reprimanded by the U.S. Supreme Court. The state repeatedly has launched attacks on Christianity, demanding its own messaging and disregarding constitutional rights. In one case it got scolded by the Supreme Court for its hostility to Christianity, but it immediately launched the same allegations against another defendant, to be struck down again.
It tried this year to force a Christian children’s camp to allow boys in the girls cabins, and showers.
It right now is arguing before the Supreme Court that it has the right to control the speech of Christian counselors who want to help patients to come to them with unwanted same-sex feelings.
The state essentially says, in that case, that counselors are allowed to promote the LGBT ideology, but are not allowed even to mention anything negative about the lifestyle.
That, of course, is better known as anti-LGBT conversion therapy, the harmfulness of which Unruh and WND have been trying to rebrand and whitewash for years. Unruh followed this by huffily noting that Polis is an “openly homosexual governor.”