The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs accept points of view verified by engineering, logic, mathematics, and science rather than beliefs stemming from authority, emotion, dogma, or tradition. Founded in 1993 in response to Colorado's Amendment 2, the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs advocate the use of reason, defend the separation of church and state, and support interpersonal dialogue, non-violence, human rights, civil rights, reproductive rights, and equality for all.

Don’t Blame Secularism, by David Eller: Freethought Views November 2019

 

Don’t Blame Secularism

David Eller

 

Attorney General William Barr recently told an audience at Notre Dame’s law school that secularism was responsible for America’s pathologies, including depression and mental illness, “dispirited young people” and “angry and alienated young males,” not to mention the usual suspects of family breakdown, suicide, drug addiction, and “senseless violence.” Worse, he chastised secularism as an organized assault on society, which could only be cured by “religion and traditional values.”

Not a “Christian nation” Declaration By Ken Burrows: Freethought Views October 2019

 

Not a “Christian nation” Declaration

By Ken Burrows

 

Those who promote the fiction that America was founded as a “Christian nation” have to regularly face the fact that our premier governing document, the Constitution, was made secular by design. So they often turn to the Declaration of Independence, pointing out its references to Creator, Nature’s God, Supreme Judge, and Divine Providence as evidence of its “Christian” basis.

Birth Control and Morality, by Groff Schroeder: Freethought Views September 2019

Birth Control and Morality

by Groff Schroeder

 

What you do with your sex organs, pregnancies, and reproductive tragedies is nobody else's business. Although wealthy Americans always have been – and always will be – able to access family planning and birth control products and services in safety and privacy, in 1970, the United States enacted Title X of the Public Health Services Act, to "assist in making comprehensive voluntary family planning services readily available to all persons desiring such services." Yet religious groups that claim moral authority over your sex life are so politically powerful that it was illegal for married couples to use birth control until 1965, it was illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972, and under various laws before the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Decision legalizing abortion on privacy grounds, it could be a crime in the United States to abort a pregnancy to save the mother's life - or even to have a spontaneous abortion ("miscarriage").

 

Who owns your life?, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views August 2019

 

Who owns your life?

By Ken Burrows

 

At your next hospitalization or medical appointment, will your health care be dictated by religious beliefs you do not hold? In a growing number of cases, the answer could be “Yes.”

 

What is Freedom? by Groff Schroeder: Freethought Views June 2019

 

What is Freedom?

by Groff Schroeder

 

Freedom appears as the simple ability to do what you want without interference. Yet true freedom appears to be anything but simple.

 

Politicians and “persons,” by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views June 2019

Politicians and “persons”

By Ken Burrows

 

In 2017 a federal Sanctity of Human Life Act was proposed to declare that human life begins at fertilization, giving fetuses all the legal “attributes of personhood.” Similarly, the recent Alabama Human Life Protection Act specifically equates the terms “unborn child” and “person” in its aim to make nearly all abortions illegal. Maneuvers like these have politicians arrogantly defining a nuanced concept like personhood by their limited perspective only, when the fact is that religious, philosophical, and legal authorities far more studied on the topic have struggled with personhood definitions throughout history.

Lesson lost, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views May 2019

 

Lesson lost

By Ken Burrows

 

Several philosophers have observed that when we don’t learn from history, we risk repeating its errors.

Lesson lost, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views May 2019

 

Lesson lost

By Ken Burrows

 

Several philosophers have observed that when we don’t learn from history, we risk repeating its errors.

“Useful” religion, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views April 2019

“Useful” religion

By Ken Burrows

By his numerous statements on the subject, we know Thomas Jefferson believed government and religion function best when they are kept separate. He was often accused of being anti-religion for his separationist views, though he frequently made respectful references to God. Nonetheless another Founder, Alexander Hamilton, often loudly assailed Jefferson for being godless. Hamilton did this to win political points against his long-time rival, setting himself up as the more godly candidate at a time when the religion-government relationship was in deep debate.

Abortion and Human Freedom, by Groff Schroeder: Freethought Views March 2019

Abortion and Human Freedom

by Groff Schroeder

 

Abortion may be the most divisive issue in modern politics, but abortion is anything but new. Numerous societies, including the Romans and Greeks, practiced not only abortion, but infanticide. Spontaneous abortions, colloquially called "miscarriage" and "stillbirth," have all but certainly occurred since the dawn of the human species. So why is abortion controversial?

 

First, do no harm, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views February 2019

First, do no harm

By Ken Burrows


The 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision granting a religious exemption to providing contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act predictably led to efforts to broaden the definition of “religious freedom” in ways that deny or limit the rights of others in matters of birth control. When the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Court ruling made same-sex marriage a constitutional right, these efforts intensified, especially with regard to marriage. Such efforts often mimic the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the Court-cited basis for the Burwell ruling. RFRA constrains how a law may impact religious practice. Critics say that ruling gave too much deference to religion at the expense of individual rights and equal treatment and results in unduly harming others. 

Thank You

 

Thank You


The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs is a 100% volunteer Colorado nonprofit charitable organization and a US IRS 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 1993 in response to Colorado's infamous "Amendment 2," which amended the Colorado Constitution to prohibit "any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy" through which gays, lesbians, or bisexuals could "have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination." Amendment 2 (also known as "Initiative 2") was adopted after a voter referendum, and remains a part of the Colorado Constitution to this day as Section 30b. However, Amendment 2 never became law in Colorado because an emergency injunction prevented it from being enacted initially, and Section 30b of the Colorado Constitution was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. The 1996 Romer vs. Evans Supreme Court Decision ruled (6-3) that Amendment 2 violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution because it explicit[ly] "prohibits all legislative, executive or judicial action at any level of state or local government designed to protect the named class."

Winter Solstice 2019

12/21/2019 - 21:19
12/21/2019 - 21:20

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Winter Solstice 2019

Saturday, December 21

9:19 p.m. MST

 

 

The first day of winter is December 21, 2019 with the solstice occurring at 9:19 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

 

The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs hopes that you and yours had a safe, satisfing, and rewarding 2019, and that 2020 will be even better.

 

Another challenge, by Groff Schroeder: Freethought Views December 2018

Another challenge

by Groff Schroeder

 

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," so spoke President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on January 20, 1961. Kennedy's inspirational inaugural address provided a hopeful counterpoint to the prescient warning in the farewell address of the outgoing President, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

 

Constitutional contradictions, by Ken Burrows: Freethought Views November 2018

Constitutional contradictions

By Ken Burrows

 

Our Founders created the U.S. Constitution to be a secular document, consistent with their intent to keep religion and government separate. Its references to religion are limited to a ban on requiring a religious test for public office (Article VI) and a directive that government neither establish religion nor prohibit its practice (First Amendment). By contrast, most state constitutions depart from the Founders’ example by weaving religion into their wording.

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