The expensive environmental restoration of the park has caused additional burden to Coloradans, who had to foot the bill for much of the Pope's Colorado visit and security. If people don't respect the separation of church and state, they should at least recognize that creating a Catholic shrine is tantamount to creating a religious mecca in this public park, with additional resulting environmental damage. In a second lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Denver, the Foundation and its Denver chapter seek a counter monument to the Ten Commandments monument now displayed on the Colorado statehouse lawn. Jeff Baysinger, director of the Denver chapter, is the principal plaintiff. There is only our natural world.
Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
This spring the State of Colorado, however, rejected the Foundation's request to place a freethought monument beside the Ten Commandments monolith on state capitol grounds in Denver.