I'm happy to say that the Colorado State Judiciary Committee has "indefinitely postponed" the Religious Bill of Rights for public schools. Yay! They said, and I quote:
After consideration on the merits, the Committee recommends the following: SB10-089 be postponed indefinitely.
That is essentially their way of killing the motion. What's interesting to me is this statement (emphasis mine):
FINAL VOTE - Moved a substitute motion to postpone Senate Bill 10-089 indefinitely. The motion passed on a 4-3 roll call vote.
Curious, I looked up the parties of the committee members. Can you guess who voted how? Yup. The Democrats all voted to kill the bill, and the Republicans all voted not to kill it. Shocker, given this was clearly an attempt by the far-right religious groups to once again wedge their foot in the door, trying to make the government a theocracy. They lost this time, but by a ...
