The Conservative Cave

In 2020, Colorado voters approved Proposition EE to fund free, voluntary preschool for every family. The legislature promised a “mixed delivery system” available to public and private, religious and secular schools alike. Then it attached a condition: every participating preschool must agree to enroll children “regardless of … religious affiliation, sexual orientation … or gender identity.”

For the Archdiocese of Denver, which oversees 36 Catholic preschools, that condition was no technicality. Teachers, staff, and parents sign a statement affirming they will live according to church teaching and the parishes’ sincerely held belief that they must consider a family’s sexual orientation and gender identity at admission.

The archdiocese asked for an exemption. The state said no. So Catholic preschools stayed out, and families like Daniel and Lisa Sheley lost a benefit their own tax dollars support.

The Tenth Circuit’s Sleight of Hand
The federal trial court sided with Colorado, concluding that the state did not exclude religious schools at all. Colorado, it said, “welcomed and actively solicited” the participation of faith-based schools, subject only to a nondiscrimination rule that applies to everyone.

That is a distinction without a difference. In just the last ten years, the Supreme Court has held three times that a state that funds private education may not withhold those funds because a school is religious or because it will use them religiously: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, and Carson v. Makin. A condition that a faithful Catholic school cannot satisfy excludes that school just as surely as a sign on the door reading “No Catholics Need Apply.” Colorado simply moved the exclusion from the statutory rules to the contract between the state and the schools.

Marcotulio Melendez Diaz is an illegal alien from Honduras. He was arrested by ICE in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and issued a deportation order, but thanks to an activist judge, Diaz was released.

Diaz was now arrested in Ramsey County, Minnesota for raping a woman. That rape was captured on her internal home surveillance system.
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"ICE sources tell FOX that Melendez Diaz was initially caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in April 2024," Melugin wrote. "ICE arrested him in Minnesota in January 2026 during Operation Metro Surge and transferred him to ICE detention in Texas where he initially crossed the border illegally. An immigration judge issued him a deportation order on 3/30/2026 and MELENDEZ DIAZ appealed. But on 8/7/2026, a federal judge in the Western District of Texas, Judge Orlando L. Garcia (Clinton appointee) ordered MELENDEZ DIAZ released from ICE custody and granted his habeas petition on grounds of “due process”, and MELENDEZ DIAZ made his way back to Minnesota."

Some on DU are not as politically savvy as others.

Well, Krusty won too; I didn't expect this joke to get transmogrified into a prediction.

As for the disappointing outcome, BTDTGTTS, one more in the drawer.

Depending on how much time the Dems burn with shampeachments, Trump's veto pen with need ink refills, and the Dems will (or have) begin looking into shampeaching Trump for his vetoes. How well the flurry of shampeachments will play in 2028 could be interesting, and hatred tends to blind people to potential consequences of their hate-driven actions..