Tag: marriage equality
Another AG request for delay on marriage equality bites the dust
District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree issued an order this morning allowing Denver County Clerk Debra Johnson to continue issuing same-sex marriage licenses despite a request from Attorney General John Suthers for an emergency injunction that would have stopped her.
Same-sex couples dash to Denver clerk’s office for marriage licenses
DENVER Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson was in a meeting when the news hit: she could start issuing same-sex marriage licenses now, today.
A judge had...
Colorado court strikes down state marriage ban
Adams County District Court Judge Scott Crabtree today ruled unconstitutional Colorado's seven-year-old gay marriage ban. He joins the list of judges, now running to more than 20, who have recently issued decisions finding that same-sex-marriage bans violate the rights of gay Americans. He stayed his decision pending appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Wiretap: Austin Nimocks is the guy who will keep losing on...
How would you like to be the lawyer tasked with defending same-sex marriage in the federal courts these days?
A near-future Mother’s Day gift: Marriage equality for my son
We were so happy the day our daughter got married to the man she loves. We were equally pained that same day that our son couldn't marry the man he loves, too.
Udall launches gay rights attack on Gardner
Ads target Udall opponent Gardner's LGBTQ-unfriendly votes between 2006 and 2009.
Here come the grooms: Making history in order to get hitched
From that first spark, Moudi and I have known we wanted to get married. Challenging Utah’s ban on marriage equality in the lawsuit filed in March 2013 was our first step toward walking down the aisle.
CD 2 pits Lundberg against upstart Weissmann for chance to run...
On the one hand, you have Jared Polis, an openly gay, socially progressive multimillionaire as the incumbent Democrat in Colorado's Second Congressional District. On the other hand you have two very different Republicans running for the chance to run against Polis. You have current Colorado State Senator Kevin Lundberg, an arch social conservative who has been among the legislature's leaders in fighting against civil unions legislation.
Gallagher defends NOM’s racial strategy, but regrets wording of memos
LEXINGTON, VA — The former head of the National Organization for Marriage said Wednesday that she disagreed with some specific wording in the group’s controversial anti-gay marriage strategies but that she did not find the strategies themselves inappropriate.
CPAC speakers: Marriage equality is irrelevant
A major theme at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., was that the Republican Party should once and for all erase the line between social and fiscal issues and further the argument that conservative social policies benefit the economy.