Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A proposed law from the Colorado State General Assembly would, and I quote, require the statewide decriminalization of commercial sexual activity among consenting adults.

The bill would repeal the state criminal offenses of prostitution,

soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute,

and prostitute-making display, end quote. If past, Colorado would join Nevada, as the only other state

to fully legalize and regulate so-called commercial sexual activity.

Now, when one steps back and asks, how do we get here?

Two answers are offered.

The first is a demographic shift that has brought, according to Aaron Wren and City Journal,

California-style blue governance.

Quote, migration from California, he wrote, has helped change Colorado from a liberation

infective reddish state into a solid blue one, has helped change Colorado from a liberation-infective reddish state

into a solid blue one, and now blue Colorado is starting to turn into California, end quote.

But in fact, starting is just not the right word here. Colorado is already one of the most

progressive states in the nation, and the real shifts came at the hands of libertarians, not Californians.

After all, combined registered Republican and independent voters heavily outnumbered

registered Democrats in Colorado. So the real story of the state is how many voters have been

wooed by promises of personal autonomy, and that somehow these promises would be delivered

by an ever-expanding government.

This new proposed law and the lawmakers who sponsored it are just the latest byproducts of a

worldview that's been in operation for some time. After delivering to Colorado, legalized

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