Colorado Man Thrown Out Of State Senate Gallery For Wearing Pro-Life Sweatshirt

Jeff Hunt, a native of Colorado, was expelled from his state’s for gallery for donning an” Pro-Life U” sweatshirt. The Centennial Institute, a think tank based out of Colorado Christian University( CCU ), of which Hunt is the director, will soon go by the moniker” Pro – Life U.”

Political messages on clothing are not prohibited by” gallery rules ,” according to the Colorado General Assembly website, and Hunt told The Federalist that he was unaware of any laws prohibiting political attire. Hunt was escorted out of the museum by the Colorado Sergeant at Arms, who also pointed out a large sign outside that stated that making” social comments” was prohibited.

Meanwhile, the Colorado State Assembly has not upheld the alleged act similarly. A group of individuals dressed in anti-2nd Amendment attire were permitted to sit in the museum unhindered in January.

Hunt told The Federalist that it takes in five minutes to search Google and discover that the Senate gallery is filled with numerous other instances of people wearing social attire. ” It seems strange that, on the one hand, they’re allowing a more liberal to worldview to talk freely, but then the live one is not … It certainly doesn’t seem to be fair and equitable ,” the author writes.

The Federalist contacted the Colorado State Assembly to inquire as to why its purported prohibition on political attire is not listed on the website of the state legislature and why it has not been applied similarly, but received no response.

Hunt, other volunteers, and staff from the Pregnancy Resource Center were working to” dispel common misinformation and myths about pregnancy resource centers and educate Colorado lawmakers and the public about the good work they actually do” when he attended the assembly for” Proenicia Resources Center( PRC ) Day.” In response to Colorado Democrats’ push for policy that” and judge and limit” the work of pregnancy resource centers, PRC Day was established.

Hunt’s in didn’t stand in for the foundation of the crisis pregnancy. Once more, it served as a symbol of CCU’s Centennial Institute. I told the Sergeant at Arms that our university’s name is” Professional – Life U” sweater. This goes beyond a simple social assertion. This is who we are and who CCU is, and we’ve registered this as a DBA( a Doing Business As ) and brand. And I’m only speaking for our university around.

Hunt’s protests, however, were ineffective, and he was still asked to leave. Hunt asserts that the Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the wearing of social attire in polling locations violates the First Amendment’s right to free speech and that what happened to him is a matter of the” Constitutional Right to Free Speech.”

It seems rather odd that you can’t put social attire in a social setting like the Senate gallery, where it is open to the public and should have free conversation protections, if you are allowed to do so in polling places.

Hunt claims that Twitter deleted his initial tweet about the incident for several years without giving him any prior notice or justification. Soon after, Twitter restored the Tweet, but it made no mention of why it had been reposted or even deleted in the first place. Hunt remarked,” It was really funny.”

Hunt really wants Colorado to permit free speech in the state capital, and if rules are going to be established, he wants them to apply fairly to all political viewpoints. He said,” I find it unfortunate that the state feels the need to limit free speech in this way and grant some speech protections that others do not.”

Evita Duffy-Alfonso co-founded the Chicago Thinker and works as a people author for The Federalist. She adores her family, writing, timber sports, and the Midwest. Contact her at evita @ thefederalist.com or follow her on Twitter at @ evitaduffy _ 1.