The Left wants to remake American in its twisted image

Colorado and Vermont are unusually beautiful states, renowned for scenery and skiing, and in Vermont’s case, cheese and ice cream.

These Democratic-dominated enclaves also attract weird and destructive people who somehow find their way into power. California does not have a monopoly on this.

How else to explain their ongoing war on free speech, common sense and Christianity? Colorado, which got slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court for persecuting Christian cake baker Jack Phillips, went after him again before the state Supreme Court finally ruled in his favor.

And, this past week, the Colorado House passed a bill that would criminalize anyone for not using transgender names in place of original names.

As Catholic League President Bill Donohue observes, this could lead to parents losing custody of their own children if they don’t go along with their child’s delusional identification with the opposite sex – or no sex.

On April 9, a Vermont Christian school was in a federal appeals court in New York City fighting for its life over its stand to keep girls’ sports for girls.

Two years ago, the girls’ basketball team at Mid Vermont Christian School forfeited a playoff game against a team that had a 6-foot, 3-inch male on it.

The state of Vermont came down on them like a ton of bricks. The Vermont Principals Association (VPA) barred the school from all sports and academic activities, including science fairs and student debates.

“Mid Vermont Christian School has every right to teach its beliefs to its own students. It cannot, however, impose those beliefs on students from other public and private schools,” the VPA said in true Orwellian fashion.

The U.S. District Court judge, an Obama appointee, agreed with the VPA, hence the school’s appeal of that ruling heard this week at the 2nd Circuit.

Alliance Defending Freedom senior attorney Ryan Tucker told me that he thought the hearing went well and was hopeful about the eventual outcome.

“The school believes that boys are boys and girls are girls, and the state disagrees, so it’s a constitutional issue.”

The Green Mountain State’s leftist regime probably sees this as a way to destroy the school once and for all. Most Christian schools would be in deep trouble if all families with student athletes, debaters and science lovers pulled out.

Can’t you just imagine Snidely Whiplash or Dr. Evil in Ben and Jerry hats and “Feel the Bern” sweatshirts rubbing their hands and saying, “Excellent!”

In Colorado, the House passed a bill on April 6 called the “Kelly Loving Act.” It prohibits “dead naming,” that is, using someone’s original name.

Jonathan Ray Loving, who adopted a female name, Kelly Loving, was murdered in 2022 at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs. He and four others were killed by a nonbinary madman with an AR-15.

The state’s legislators have decided to blame everybody else for this.

Colorado Rep. Yara Zokaie, a Democrat who co-sponsored the House bill, credited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with making the argument to exclude parental-rights advocates from hearings.

The SPLC has long slandered conservative and Christian groups on its website’s “hate map” alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads.

“We don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK for their opinion,” Ms. Zokaie said.

Like the legal attack on Mid Vermont Christian School, this is part of the left’s culture war against anyone who believes in traditional morality.

One of the nastiest weapons in their arsenal is “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which began its sixth and last season on the Disney-owned Hulu network on April 6.

Based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopic futurist novel, the series is a diatribe against conservative Christians, who are depicted as bloodthirsty totalitarians.

If you think that’s an exaggeration, here’s an excerpt from a glowing article on April 6 in The Washington Post: “It felt remarkably of the moment – depicting a terrifying future America under an authoritarian regime in which women have been stripped of their reproductive freedom and are forced into sexual slavery to bear children for the wealthy and powerful.”

In other words, the Post’s idea of Donald Trump’s America.

Wait. There’s more. The protagonist June and her daughter are “captives of the brutal theocracy of Gilead, where women get a finger cut off if they are caught reading, and ‘gender traitors’ (anyone not straight) are publicly hanged. Every month, June is ritually raped … all in the name of fulfilling biblical destiny and solving the world’s fertility crisis.”

This is not just some Mickey Mouse satire, but a full-throated slander of Christians by Hollywood’s privileged elites.

“As a TV writer, you make stuff up,” says the show’s top creative director, Yahlin Chang. “You imagine an alternative reality where bad [stuff] happens, and it’s really astonishing to see it all come to fruition in real life.” Really?

In the 1930s, Jews watched as Josef Goebbels’ propaganda machine depicted them as objects of ridicule, then as saboteurs, and finally as a dire threat to the German nation that required a Final Solution.

Ideas have consequences, and so do lawfare and hateful propaganda.

The good news is that the American public is fed up with all this, and it showed in the last national election. Despite the continued cultural barrage, the transgender madness is losing its grip.

And, as Easter approaches, it’s a good time to reflect on Jesus’ words: “I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

This column was first published at the Washington Times.