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By Fr. Bill Carmody Respect Life Director Diocese of Colorado Springs

Governor Ritter has signed both 1330 and 1292 into law. He broke his word to the citizens of Colorado with his vote on 1330. 1330 allows gay adoption.

This was one of the issues the voters of Colorado rejected last November. Governor Ritter stated the day after the election that the people of Colorado have spoken and rejected ref. I and not to push it. The democrats in the House and senate ignored the Governor and more importantly ignored the will the people in Colorado and push gay adoption anyway. Then the governor goes back on his word and signs 1330. My question is this. Why Vote? Why express your views and then the governor and State legislature simply ignore the will of the people and push it down our throats anyway. Adoption agencies were opposed to this. Adoption agencies have worked for several years to screen applicants for adoption and insure the protection of our children. Their views were ignored by the Governor and State legislature. Now, simply by being gay trumps adoption agencies ability to protect children and find the best parents for children.

This is a sad day for the State of Colorado.

1292 is so-called science-based sex education. It is basically the planned parenthood monopoly on public education. Abstinence only education was working in Colorado. The teen pregnancy rate was going down. More and more teens were waiting for sex. This is good news for Colorado and bad news for Planned Parenthood. Business was going down. Planned parenthood lobbied hard to get their monopoly back. Abstinence only education was so named by then President Clinton in 1996. It did not mean that contraceptives were not talked about. It simply demonstrated the failure of contraception and the only full proof method of protecting oneself from STD’s and pregnancy was abstinence. Abstinence only education is similar to DARE programs to prevent drug use among teenagers. It comes from an abstinence perspective and it teaches young people refusal skills and teaches them to stand up to peer pressure and do what is right. Abstinence education is the same. Now with the planned parenthood model of education, young people will be treated like animals in regard to their sexuality. The issue will not be refusal skills and saving oneself for marriage.

Rather, the message will be; you will have sex anyway just don’t get pregnant and do not get a STD.

What a sad day for our children and a great day for planned parenthood.

Governor Ritter stated he would govern from the center. He misled us. He is governing from the far left when it comes to family values and the gay agenda.

READER COMMENTS

A very good letter. We hope the citizens of Colorado will keep this in mind when the Governor is up for re-election.

A very good letter. We hope the citizens of Colorado will keep this in mind when the Governor is up for re-election.

"Now, simply by being gay trumps adoption agencies ability to protect children and find the best parents for children. "

And here we see the clear and present bigotry that drives the paranoia of the Catholic. The law trumps NOTHING. It simply prevents sexual orientation from being an automatic rejection for adoption.

For you Friar to suggest that gay couples are any less capable of being good parents than straight people should look at your own paresh for I guarentee there are some really AWFUL straight catholic parents. Angry, abusive alcoholics. And their heterosexual. And their Catholic.

Perhaps we need a law preventing Catholics from adopting. Oh wait, that would be discrimination and bigotry. I can see it. Can you?

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Gov. Ritter came thru..Thank you!

He's under pressure to try to aprease everyone who voted him into office. Except the American Citizen. I hope June 1st. He does 'the right' and kills bill 1313.

Have you ever met a politician that tells the truth or sticks to his campaign promises?

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