This case is about the serious, life-long, and cumulative injuries to LGBT children or children in LGBT families (\u201cchildren in the LGBT community\u201d) from intentional discrimination should state-funded religious private schools prevail \u2013 injuries that state and federal law are designed to prevent.<\/p>\n
Amici advance three arguments. First, Colorado has a compelling interest in protecting children\u2019s access to educational opportunities under the Universal Preschool Program (\u201cUPK\u201d or \u201cUPK Program\u201d) unencumbered by discriminatory barriers.<\/p>\n
Second, consistent with Colorado\u2019s national leadership and child-centered approach to equality, the state has a compelling interest in liberating children from the dignitary, psychological, and familial harms that result from discrimination.<\/p>\n
Third, allowing state-funded religious service providers to engage in LGBT discrimination against preschoolers will force Colorado to \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d give legal effect to private beliefs that violate state and federal anti-discrimination laws. While Plaintiffs-Appellants (\u201cPreschool Providers\u201d) have the right to exercise their religious beliefs, neither the majority nor a \u201cfraction of the body politic\u201d is permitted to \u201cuse the power of the State to enforce [its private] views on the whole of society through operation of . . . law,\u201d let alone to flout hallowed Fourteenth Amendment tenets.<\/p>\n