Religious Rights Advocates Celebrate Camp’s Victory
Earlier this month, Denver Post columnist Krista Kafer defended IdRaHaJe’s stance. “Those who consider biological sex an important distinction for maintaining privacy, safety, and religious conviction deserve the same freedom to choose a camp,” she wrote in an opinion piece. “Rather than waste another dime of taxpayer money defending discrimination against faith-based providers, [Colorado] should change its regulations to comply with the First Amendment.”
After this week’s settlement was announced, conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey celebrated the “great news.” She posted, “This Christian camp has won its lawsuit against the state of Colorado and won’t be forced to allow boys into girls’ cabins.”
“Remember: progressives will stop at nothing to force you to abide by their ideological beliefs,” said Stuckey. “Grateful to @ADFLegal for defending our constitutional rights!”
Stuckey, a podcaster and author of “Toxic Empathy,” lambasted Colorado’s new law in a lengthy X thread last month. “When progressives call you a ‘Christian nationalist’ or ‘fascist,’ know it’s projection,” she began. “In Colorado, a new law bans sex-exclusive spaces, forcing camps to let males into girls’ areas—or face legal action. One Christian camp is pushing back.”
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After sharing IdRaHaJe’s doctrinal statement, Stuckey called Colorado’s law “an obvious infringement upon their First Amendment rights.” Citing Jack Phillips, the Christian cake baker who fought a lengthy battle for his religious freedom, she said, “In Democrat-run states like Colorado, the process is the punishment.”
Politics and policy matter, Stuckey reminded Christians, writing, “Democrats are openly hostile to your Christian beliefs and do not support your right to exercise them publicly.” A statement such as “boys can become girls” isn’t neutral or scientific, she said, but “Satanic.”
Progressives want Christian conservatives “to abandon your beliefs, to check your beliefs at the door of the public square, but they have no intention of doing the same,” Stuckey added. She encouraged believers not to be “manipulated” but to live according to their biblical worldview.
“If we believe God’s ways are better, then the best way to love our neighbor is to advocate for policies that align with God’s ways,” Stuckey concluded. “Thus, the most loving thing we can do is agree with God, both personally and politically.”
