This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Colorado has a long history of extremism, from racism to charges that it is continuing slavery.
One of its counties, Gilpin, a few years back paid out $700,000 after officials in government documents repeatedly referred to a black resident as "N—– Roy."
A pending lawsuit claims the leftist state – it's run by Democrats in the governor's office, legislature and state Supreme Court – is continuing "slavery" in its work programs for prison inmates.
State officials are demanding that taxpayers nationwide fund the lucrative abortion industry, and it long has pushed the radicalism of having boys who say they are girls in girls' showers with the females.
It has had more school shootings that just about anywhere else, the latest just weeks ago in Evergreen.
It also has a long history of attacking Christians. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for a decade for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients.
Now the state's agenda is spreading to its cities.
A report from the American Center for Law and Justice reveals that town officials in Northglenn, a suburb north of Denver, are attacking three local churches for meeting to "worship, pray, study Scripture, and share meals. …"
"They exercised their constitutionally protected right to freely practice their faith in a traditional public forum – a right that has been guaranteed to Americans since our nation's founding," the report explained.
"Then the city of Northglenn decided their religious exercise was a problem, going so far as criminally citing the pastors for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to religion, speech, and assembly."
The legal team confirmed it is taking action representing members and pastors.
"We will be filing a federal lawsuit to defend these pastors and their constitutional right to freely exercise their faith in a public park and to defend them against their criminal citations. This case represents yet another disturbing example of government hostility toward religious expression – and we won't stand for it."
The ACLJ explained the case involves pastors Brent Denney and David McCamish, of Brave church, and pastor Dustin Mackintosh of Next Step Christian Church, who have been holding weekly ministry gatherings at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park.
"They were peaceful religious gatherings," the legal team said.
For four years, no complaints. They used the park on the same basis as any other group.
Then just last year, "The chief of police informed the pastors he had been 'tasked with shutting down' their weekly gatherings. City officials called a private meeting with representatives from the churches and made the city's position clear: They liked what the churches were doing, but they couldn't do it in Northglenn. The city's objection wasn't to the size of the gatherings or any actual disruption. Their objection was to who the churches were serving and why they were doing it – because of their religious conviction to follow Christ's command to serve 'the least of these.'"
The city formally adopted a resolution attacking the religious meetings.
Officials followed up by having police issue criminal citations to pastors and participants.
"When officers arrived, they didn't just ask about group size – they specifically inquired about church membership, asking, 'How many people are part of your church?' This reveals the true target: not group gatherings in general, but religious gatherings specifically. One of the pastors given a citation wasn't even participating in the religious gathering at the time but was sitting nearby. But because he was the pastor of one of the churches involved, he was still cited," the legal team said.
At the same time, "numerous other groups continue using the same park without interference: adult daycare groups, walking clubs, pickleball groups, and fitness classes that meet multiple times per week."
The ACLJ noted the Supreme Court already has ruled against ordinances "specifically designed to suppress religious practices while allowing comparable secular conduct."
