I waited to blog on Colorado’s new bill that punishes parents who raise their their kids according to Christian values. Now that it’s passed, and we have the final version, let’s find out what’s in it. Then I’m going to ask why Christians and / or conservatives are content to live their lives – and pay their taxes – in states that trample on their religion and values. And I think I know the answer.

First, here’s the article from the Daily Caller, written by Mary Rooke, one of my favorite columnists:

Under the guise of “anti-discrimination” and adding legal protection for so-called transgender individuals, Colorado lawmakers adopted into law House Bill 25-1312, “Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” which may violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Previously, I blogged on a new study that listed 7 different risks to children who undergo so-called “gender-affirming care”. I asked everyone to remember the top two: infertility and damage to bones. I’m very pleased with myself that I was able to name those two risks again today, while writing this post! And without any help! That’s why I write these blog posts. In case you need a refresher, here was the list in order of risk:

1. Infertility
2. Bone Health Deterioration
3. Cardiovascular Complications
4. Sexual Dysfunction
5. Regret/Detransition
6. Mental Health Concerns
7. Cancer Risk

But the Daily Caller article explains why it’s apparently a crime for parents to tell their children about this study, and try to warn them about the need to make wise decisions.

It says:

This bill puts the government and schools in charge of the welfare of children by requiring that the courts consider whether parents committed cardinal sins of transgender ideology like deadnaming or misgendering, which is now considered “coercive control” under the law. It also prevents the court from removing a child from a parent for allowing the child to receive so-called “gender-affirming care services.”

And:

HB 25-1312 also changes the state law to include deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts. This makes using biological pronouns and birth names in a public place a discriminatory practice, which could mean fines starting at $5,000 per violation. It requires teachers to use “chosen” names and pronouns, and that school districts provide clothes and other amenities for these confused children, even if the parents disapprove.

It’s important to note that it’s not just disrespecting the will of the parents – who are the taxpayers that pay the salaries of the perverts. It’s that they want to punish the parents for disagreeing with Democrats on this issue. So, parents are good enough to pay taxes to the secular leftists, but not good enough to raise their own kids. They’re just slaves, in effect. And kings and queens don’t care what their slaves think about morality. Slaves just work and pay taxes.

One more quote from Mary, then I will give my opinion:

The left wants you to believe that the government has the right to sever the parent-child relationship by ending the importance of parental authority. It also wants you to believe in a false reality that sex is not immutable by forcing even non-parents to use fake names and pronouns. Their ultimate goal is to get to children. They want them so badly, and you, as their parent, stand in the way.

We have to fix this problem. Not only should this law be struck down as unconstitutional, but any state official who voted for or otherwise signed their name to it should face serious repercussions at the ballot box. We have to end the left’s control of our state and local governments, or these laws will continue to pass.

These are good thoughts, but I don’t think we need to reform any state or city laws. We just need to have the courage to leave blue cities and blue states. And I know why Christians don’t do it, too.

Christians don’t leave blue states for two reasons. Reason 1 is because they aren’t living lives that are inconvenced by these laws. For one reason or another, it’s not going to bother their plans at all if the secular left is taking their money and making decisions to limit their freedom. Probably because their plan isn’t Christian at all. There’s a lot of people who claim the label who have no plan.

The second reason is that too many Christians marry non-Christian spouses. These are spouses who think that Christianity is supposed to make them popular and happy. They don’t like to think about news or laws or anything else that will make them feel bad. And this isn’t a situation where the real Christian is the victim of a fake Christian spouse. People CHOOSE who they marry. If your “Christian” spouse likes to live in a blue state, then it’s YOUR fault for marrying that person. There is no use complaining about the state transing your kid if you chose to marry a secular leftist. And don’t complain about family courts in a blue state, when your property is plundered for the rest of your life because of an angry secular leftist judge.

Don’t pay taxes in blue states. Move to a red state. That’s the best way to change your blue state to a red state. When you leave, your tax money leaves with you, and that’s the only thing that will stop the abuse of Christian parents by the secular left. They understand money – they understand when the money leaves their state.

One of the worst things about secular leftism is their denial of human rights. For a secular leftist, it’s so tempting to want to collect money from taxpayers, then use that money to punish taxpayers who disagree with them. One of the ways that this happened during the Biden regime is when the government used heavily-armed police to pre-dawn raid the homes of Christians.

But the House Republicans are going to do something about it.

This Daily Wire article explains:

The House of Representatives will take steps towards repealing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act this week, a law repeatedly weaponized against pro-life activists by President Joe Biden’s administration.

Lawmakers on Wednesday will mark up H.R. 589, the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025, which Texas Congressman Chip Roy introduced in January. The bill “repeals provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain or provide reproductive health services, or (2) exercise their right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.”

Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced the Senate version of the bill in January as well.

If you don’t know the names “Chip Roy” and “Mike Lee”, you should. Roy is one of the most conservative Congressman in the House, and an early backer of Ron DeSantis in 2024. DeSantis was the mst conservative candidate for president running in 2024. Lee is one of the most conservative Senators in the Senate. Roy and Lee  were clearly not happy with the Biden administration using government to punish people who disagree with the Democrat party.

The article talks about that:

The move comes after years of work from Roy and his team, who aggressively argued in favor of repealing the FACE Act while the Biden Justice Department used the law to imprison pro-life activist after pro-life activist from 2022 to 2024, often pairing FACE with a felony conspiracy charge to lock peaceful pro-life protesters. President Donald Trump pardoned these imprisoned activists earlier this year.

I blogged earlier about how well Trump has performed for the pro-lifers who voted for him. Pardoning the pro-lifers was one of the most significant actions he took on behalf of his pro-life voters.

It might be worth reviewing the kind of person that Biden appointed to persecute Christians for their not-Democrat views.

This article from Daily Signal tells us all about Kristen Clarke:

Clarke served as president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a left-wing activist group. She also worked for five years at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a leftist group that links abortion to “racial justice.” Both groups have frequently accessed the Biden White House and received large cash infusions from the Left’s dark money network… She cited the far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center in condemning Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit pro-life and religious freedom law firm, as a “hate group.”

[…]She said that those protesting Dr. Anthony Fauci, the controversial COVID-19 czar and now-retired head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should be “publicly identified and named, barred from treatment at any public hospital if/when they fall ill and denied coverage under their insurance.”

[…]Clarke had been arrested for attacking her then-husband, Reginald Avery, with a knife, deeply slicing one of his fingers to the bone in 2006. The pair finalized their divorce in 2009. Clarke had the arrest expunged from her record, and during her Senate confirmation, she denied ever having been arrested or having been accused of committing a violent crime. Clarke admitted to her failure to disclose that arrest, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, called for her to resign.

That’s who Trump-supporters were really voting against, when they voted for Trump in 2024. Trump-supporters voters to stop the persecution of Christians by the government.

What about the people who dislike Trump, and can’t understand why Christians would vote for him? Well, they probably don’t know who Chip Roy, Mike Lee or Kristen Clarke are. They know about Trump, because their TVs told them to hate Trump. But Christians and conservatives don’t get their news from watching TV. We monitored stories like the persecution of pro-life Christians, and we voted to oppose the weaponization of Big Government against Christians. We voted for the results we wanted. We did not vote to have happy feelings or to virtue signal.

Desert Rose got a review copy of “The Immortal Mind“, and she loves it. Her mom loves it. And two of her neightbors love it, too. It’s made a huge splash. Although the material is scientific evidence, it’s written in a way that non-scientists can understand. And these are interesting topics to talk about with skeptics, atheists, and non-Christians. Let’s take a look at what’s in the book.

The book is about what the best explanation is for our mental experiences: consciousness, abstract thought, and free will. Basically, what is the “mind”? One view is that your mind is just your physical brain. That’s called “materialism”. Then there is “dualism”, where you are your mind, and you interact with your physical body. Which way does the evidence point?

Here’s the description of the new book:

Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual in any respect. We are made up of cells and tissue, and completely controlled by a material organ in our heads: the brain.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Michael Egnor, practicing neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and Professor of Neurosurgery at Stony Brook University, makes the case—based on 40 years of practice and over 7,000 brain surgeries—that science has gotten it all wrong. The human brain is incredible, mysterious, and powerful. But it’s not what makes us who we are. The soul does that.

Drawing on the most important research studies in neuroscience, Dr. Egnor presents evidence that the brain alone does not explain the mind. He explores, using modern neuroscience and his vast surgical experience, how inside every damaged brain there is a thinking, feeling person with a spiritual soul that transcends the brain. He argues that scientists can locate the parts of the brain that control the body or sensations or emotions, but they can’t find the seat of reason or free will. He uses fascinating case studies to show how cutting-edge brain surgery on patients who are awake, how research on conjoined twins who share parts of their brains, on patients in deep coma who are still able to communicate with people around them, on near-death experiences, and on artificial intelligence all make a scientific case for the existence of the spiritual human soul.

Engaging, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking, The Immortal Mind shows here that some aspect of who we are is spiritual and immortal, transcending the physical body. Using science, he proves the existence of the human soul.

You can pre-order the book here.

I know that there are great arguments for the soul in philosophy, like persistent identity over time, or intentionality. But somehow, I just feel that it is more persuasive to talk about the scientific evidence, and that’s what this book does.

When it comes to Creator and Designer, I have 6 arguments that use scientific evidence:

1. origin of the universe
2. cosmic fine-tuning
3. origin of life
4. fossil record
5. habitability
6. molecular machines

What I’d really like is to get a seventh argument added to my list. Another argument for falsifying naturalism / materialism that is based on scientific evidence. Run up the score! 7-0. Sounds like a football game now.

There is a GREAT pre-order goody if you order the book before May 31st. You get a free digital copy of “Minding the Brain“. It has articles by people you might recognize: Taliaferro, Menuge, Farris, Egnor, Marks, Gordon, Habermas! Lots of different topics by different authors, kind of like “The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith”, which is one of my favorite books.

I already bought Minding the Brain on Kindle, but if you like making an argument for the the soul, then it’s a great collection of chapters from some of the best scholars, and the digital version is free if you pre-order “The Immortal Mind”. Let me know in the comments if you have ever done prep to make an argument for the soul.