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Mejia and Linkhart endorse civil unions bill
Thursday, Denver Mayoral Candidates James Mejia and Doug Linkhart issued statements endorsing the civil unions bill currently making its uncertain way through the Legislature. They join fellow candidate Chris Romer who issued a similar statement earlier this week.
Colorado rights group celebrates Obama move to back off Defense of...
President Obama Wednesday directed Attorney General Eric Holder to stop battling legal attacks on the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying he believes the Act unconstitutionally discriminates against gay couples. It's a move many Obama supporters have anticipated for years with diminishing hope as the attorney general's office fought back a series of challenges to the Act.
Steadman rolls out civil unions bill as valentine to Colorado
State Sen. Pat Steadman introduced his civil unions bill in the Colorado capitol Monday, a Valentine's Day treat for lawmakers to consider in the coming months. “Civil unions will allow committed couples to share in the responsibilities and protections in Colorado law that most families take for granted," he said in a release. "Our society is stronger when we promote personal responsibility and taking care of one another, and civil unions do just that."
In advance of Steadman bill, surveys show strong support in Colorado...
As state Senator Pat Steadman gets set to introduce his civil unions legislation in Denver next week, new public opinion poll results bolster the case for the bill. The results of a Public Policy Polling survey (pdf) conducted this past weekend match almost exactly results of a survey conducted last January by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and American Viewpoint. More than 70 percent of Coloradans support legally recognized domestic partnerships, including those between same-sex couples.
Hemmed in by state anti-gay marriage law, Steadman to introduce civil...
Denver Democratic state Senator Pat Steadman is sponsoring a bill that would make same-sex civil unions legal in Colorado. The move is being cheered as long overdue by gay rights supporters, who have been stymied in efforts to win equality by a constitutional amendment that outlaws gay marriage in the state. In weighing whether or not to introduce the legislation this summer, Steadman told the Colorado Independent that "promoting a lesser status for gay people is not ideal” but that, in the short term, "people could really benefit from civil unions.”
Anti-bullying task force would fit with state’s lean mean approach to...
A group of Colorado rights and education organizations is calling on Governor-elect John Hickenlooper and state lawmakers to establish a task force on school bullying and harassment in Colorado. The organizations cite the alarming rash of recent high-profile incidents around the country where harassment led gay high school and university students to commit suicide.
Buck campaign: He’ll discuss retracting Meet the Press statements if he...
Gay rights group One Colorado hand delivered a petition to GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck's Denver office Tuesday bearing 1,500 signatures requesting he...
Top Colorado gay rights group weighs in on 2010 elections
Gay rights group One Colorado this week released a list of fifty state candidates it will endorse and throw its fundraising and grassroots volunteer support behind for the 2010 election, now only weeks away. Two Republicans made the list, Larry Liston, a northeast Colorado Springs social conservative, and Kevin Priola, a freshman Representative from Brighton northeast of Denver and a family businessman.
Gay rights group One Colorado endorses Hickenlooper in guv race
In its first election season campaign endorsement, One Colorado has come out solidly for Democrat John Hickenlooper in the three-way governor's race.
"As mayor...
Polis, One Colorado celebrate ruling against Prop 8 gay marriage ban
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California's controversial voter-approved Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in 2008, is unconstitutional. The 136-page ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger sends ripples across the nation, where gay marriage has been contested at the ballot box repeatedly, advancing the cause of gay rights on the ground in California but also all but guaranteeing that a higher court will now be asked to take up the issue. A decision by the Supreme Court on the matter would effectively end any bans on gay marriage in all 50 states.