Instead of removing discriminations, our Colorado legislature simply reverses them, taking it upon itself to determine who gets what rights, protections and benefits.
Some Colorado citizens may view this law, known informally as Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, or CADA, as justice. Others will see it as a predatory monster.
The law is armed by a seven-person Civil Rights Commission, four of whom must be members of one of the protected classes that have been or could be discriminated against. This unelected happy few, appointed by the governor, are tasked to energetically ferret out those of us Coloradoans whom they think to be suspect, subjecting us to fines and/or imprisonment.
CADA raises any number of judicial, legal and philosophical contradictions.
By carving out artificial identity groups for protected class status, this law abandons the only source of rights available equally to all of us under the U.S. Constitution — our American citizenship — the only thing that we Americans have in common. Our rights stem from that citizenship alone, not selectively by our gender, ethnicity, ancestry or sex habits.
Instead of removing discriminations, our Colorado legislature simply reverses them, taking it upon itself to determine who gets what rights, protections and benefits.