The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill Sunday that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming” after Democrats cited the Southern Poverty Law Center to justify excluding parental rights groups from discussion on the bill.
The bill, HB 1312, passed with 36 votes in favor, 20 against, and nine absent in a largely party-line vote. One Democrat, Bob Marshall, voted against the bill.
The Colorado House of Representatives has 43 Democrats and 22 Republicans.
“The Democrat Party convened the General Assembly on the Lord’s Day for their worship of the leviathan of state to cram through some of the most egregious attacks on the fabric of our nation,” state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, a Republican, told The Daily Signal.
Rep. Jarvis Caldwell, another Republican, accused the House Democrats of silencing debate…
