June 18, 2008 - 16:10
News: Colorado

Colorado Right to Life: wrong church, wrong pew

When Dick Wadhams in a Rocky Mountain News article yesterday called members of Colorado Right to Life a "very small fringe group," he was more than right, he was brilliant.

In fact CRTL is so small that its leaders all go to the same church, Denver Bible Church, lead by pastor-who-would-be-king, Bob Enyart.

"Can you imagine any organization, especially a political organization, that would want all of its board members to come from the same church," asked one pro-life demonstrator in Denver a month ago.

One can understand the confusion of the pro-life demonstrator. She was applying logic to a question that has no logical answer.

And it has no logical answer because Colorado Right to Life isn't about politics anymore, as she assumes it is.

It's about faith.  

The one true faith enshrined by Denver Bible Church lead by the very royal Pastor, Bob Enyart.

In fact, if you listen to the head of Colorado Right to Life's Joe Riccobono, it's all about Jesus and what's in your heart. But behind it all there is Denver Bible Church, the broadcast home, at least biblically, of Pastor-Monarch Bob Enyart.

It was about the time that Riccobono and his Denver Bible brethren adopted their "faith-in-Enyart-first" philosophy and scorned politicians, (like an altogether different Bob, Bob Schaffer, who tried to help pro-life causes but apparently lacks sufficient faith in Denver Bible Church to measure up to CRTL) that even pro-life politicians shunned the "very small fringe group," and began to scatter from them.

So CRTL did the thing that churches have relied on for centuries to keep people in line: they started stoning those people and politicians they considered heretics because they lacked faith in the one true king, Pastor Bob.  

But now in GOP Party Chief Dick Wadhams they've found out, much to their shock, that the rocks they've thrown around at politicians with so much faith can be thrown right back at them and with much better accuracy.

Why, Wadhams asks in the Rocky, should the GOP be supportive of a group that won't support the Party?

Leslie Hanks vice regent of CRTL complains in a press release: "Wadhams banned the nation's oldest Right To Life organization from their state convention."

In fact the "nation's oldest Right To Life organization" has not just been banned by Wadhams. In fact it's been banned by the nation's largest right-to-life organization, National Right to Life.

One year ago, just after the Enyart coronation, National Right to Life booted Colorado Right to Life out its organization calling them a "rogue and divisive group."

And it's because they are considered "rogue and divisive" that smart people like Bob Schaffer refuse to meet with Enyart and his court.

They don't seem to share the faith in Enyart's ideas on bringing America a constitutional monarchy with himself as His Royal Highness.

And if, as Riccobono suggests, "shunning" Enyart is shunning the base, all we have to say of Wadhams is: brilliant!     

Wally Edge can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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