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State auditor: Colorado civil rights enforcers lack transparency and accountability Scathing...

The Colorado Civil Rights Division and Civil Rights Commission face a crisis of transparency, accountability and timeliness, the state auditor wrote in a damning...

Christian cake maker in Lakewood is now suing Colorado in federal...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that sided with a Christian baker over a never-baked wedding cake for a gay couple in Colorado,...

Siding with Christian cake-maker, High Court says CO’s civil rights agency...

The U.S. Supreme Court today sided with a Christian baker in a case that pitted his religious beliefs against gay rights over a never-baked...

Same-sex marriage cake case renews effort to legalize discrimination on religious...

Anyone who thought the 1990s culture wars in Colorado were over hasn't been following efforts by Republicans in the state House of Representatives. A...

Republicans commit to funding Civil Rights Commission, but have changes in...

Democrats took the granite steps of the state Capitol on Tuesday demanding that the GOP fund the Colorado Civil Rights Commission after three Republicans...

Littwin: If tolerance is the issue in the Masterpiece case, how...

A man and a woman walk into a bakery and ask the baker to make them a wedding cake. The baker asks the couple if...

The gay wedding cake, the baker who wouldn’t make it, and...

Jack Phillips wants to talk. “But I can’t, not without my lawyers here,” laments the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner whose refusal to make a cake...

Christian religious beliefs clash with gay rights at the U.S. Supreme...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case set to pit Christian religious beliefs against gay rights over a never-baked wedding cake...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the Colorado same-sex wedding cake...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case set to pit Christian religious beliefs against gay rights over a never-baked wedding cake...

Gordon Klingenschmitt’s failed attack on anti-discrimination law

Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, a Colorado Springs Republican, proposed a bill to give clergy and religious organizations the right to refuse to officiate services based...