Colorado Governor OKs Open Bathrooms

Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow: Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed a bill that has shocked many of the state's residents.The bill adds transgendered people to the list included in the state's non-discrimination law. That means businesses will be required to hire transgendered people, even if they are owned and operated by Christians who oppose the lifestyle on moral grounds . . . this bill now does do is allow men to go into women's restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa because we are told that we cannot discriminate against someone with a transgender status . . . Colorado lawmakers also slapped voters in the face with a provision that prohibits a public referendum or petition drive to overturn the law. Hausknecht says the only choice Colorado voters have now is to send people to the legislature that will act to reverse the law. . . . [Read More]

ARRA Editor Comment: Where does the Colorado legislature believe it has the authority or power to placing a provision in the law that "prohibits a public referendum or petition drive to overturn the law?" This is legislative abuse! This may violate the right to petition article in the 1st Amendment to the US Consititution and definitely seems to violate Article 5 of the Colorado Constitution which says:

The first power hereby reserved by the people is the initiative, and signatures by registered electors in an amount equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of secretary of state at the previous general election shall be required to propose any measure by petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions for state legislation and amendments to the constitution, in such form as may be prescribed pursuant to law, shall be addressed to and filed with the secretary of state at least three monts before the general election at which they are to be voted upon.

The second power hereby reserved is the referendum, and it may be ordered, except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, and appropriations for the support and maintenance of the departments of state and state institutions, against any act or item, section, or part of any act of the general assembly, either by a petition signed by registered electors in an amount equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of the secretary of state at the previous general election or by the general assembly. Referendum petitions, in such form as may be prescribed pursuant to law, shall be addressed to and filed with the secretary of state not more than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the general assembly that passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The filing of a referendum petition against any item, section, or part of any act shall not delay the remainder of the act from becoming operative.

Time for the citizens of Colorado to put the legislature back in its place by exercising their rights. Voters need not agree or disagree with the intent of the law but they sure must agree not to allow the Colorado legislature to legislate away their State Constitutional rights.

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