Think the Governor will be able to get this done in the encore session? Reading between the line in the Post this morning, it sounds like he is backing away from the measure. Maybe he knows it won't pass even with the special session.
Personally I would like to see Gay marriage become legal in Colorado but I will take CU's as a first step.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I hope so. This is supposed to a gov't FOR and BY the people and all should have the same rights. The special session is today. People can choose which side of history they want to be on. Even the Republican pollsters are telling the GOP candidates that they better wise up and get with the times.
Interesting to watch bigotry's last gasp in my own state. It's not a matter of "if"--but "when." In one more generation, all of the knuckledraggers will be gone, and the folks in the younger demographic of today, (who overwhelming believe in equal rights for ALL), will be in power and this will all be ancient history.
The right-wing extremists will go, kicking and screaming...but GO they will...
Hick will make a token gesture, but after all it was he who asked for the special session. He will take credit. Even if it doesn't pass we will hear how he tried.
IN NOVEMBER 2014, WE HAVE A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE AND ONE-THIRD OF THE SENATE! DONT BLOW IT!
“When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex. Only whit man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.” Indian Chief Two Eagles
Since 2006, the Constitution of Colorado was amended to limit recognition of same-sex unions by banning same-sex marriage and common law marriages between same-sex partners.(Amendment 43)
In 2006- the voters of Colorado made it clear they did not want same sex marriage.
This is a political issue big money maker for the left- and I don't think they have any real expectation that it will pass- nor do I think they really want it to pass.
This is an election year- and the left is pulling all the strings to get as much money as possible on their side- this is nothing more than a money stream for democrats. If it were to pass- the money stream would dry up for the left - and many people for whom this matters might find themselves in agreement with republicans on many issues.
If it does pass- get ready for this to cost the taxpayer and private insurance consumers billions of dollars- after all - that's what this is really about, money.
Thousands of people will be newly entitled as spouses to government employee benefits- entitlement benefits of the welfare and entitlement state and private insurance benefits that they are currently not entitled to under the law.
Our insurance costs will go up considerably- and the cost of government benefits will go up considerably- meaning the taxpayer will be on the hook for those costs.
Hate to tell you this, but many of the cities & counties in Colorado already offer spousal benefits to domestic partners... (And the number of private companies that offer benefits to partners is staggering...) The costs haven't gone up significantly--and that's a fact.
Remember Amendment-2 around 1996? Another lame attempt by those right-wing sweethearts to deprive people of their rights... Struck down by the Supreme Court
. You really need to get over that. I understand they have counseling for irrational homophobic fear.
The same reason that struck down Colorado's Amendment-2 is a large part of the California Prop-8 case, and I still predict that if Prop-8 goes down, it's going to take all of the state anti-marriage constitutional amendments with it...
