amendment 2
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COVER STORY: 10 milestones that shaped Colorado’s modern political world
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It’s been 50 years since Colorado turned the page on the post-War period and plunged into the state’s modern political era as a new generation of leaders took the stage to grapple with challenges confronting the rapidly changing state. Known as a politically balanced state for most of its history – long before TV newscasters…
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House panel rejects what some called an Amendment 2 repeat
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DENVER – A bill many feared would take Colorado back to its 1992 reputation as the “hate state” failed in a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday night on a party-line vote. House Bill 1206 would have allowed those with “sincerely-held religious beliefs” to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals, according to witnesses who testified on the…
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Colorado politicos react to Supreme Court hearing on Masterpiece Cakeshop case
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Both sides agree it’s a question of rights but differ sharply whose rights should prevail under the law in a case argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court – whether it’s the baker and his religious beliefs or the same-sex couple and their right to be treated like any other customers. As the divisive case…
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VIDEO: Former Sen. Pat Steadman receives One Colorado’s lifetime achievement award
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LF0pZkmsvU Pat Steadman, the former state senator and public citizen extraordinaire, was honored with a lifetime achievement award last weekend at One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, which honors those who have worked for the rights and good of LGBTQ Coloradans and their families were: Term limits kept Steadman from running again last year.…
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One Colorado to honor Pat Steadman, Jean Dubofsky, Rathod Mohamedbhai and Kaiser
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Twenty-one years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, One Colorado Education Fund is honoring two attorneys who played key roles in the case – former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky and former state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver – at the LGBT-rights organization’s annual Ally Awards fundraising event. Dubofsky, the first woman…
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YESTERYEAR: Reactions vary widely to U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Amendment 2
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Elected officials had a range of reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Colorado’s Amendment 2, the ballot measure passed four years earlier by state voters, that would forbid “protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation.” The court “rejected the equal rights…
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Moreno statutory cleanup bill sails through kill committee
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It’s a rare bill that sails through the House State Affairs kill committee but, according to its supporters, HB 1077 has the smell of common sense about it and it also enjoys sponsorship in the House by Assistant Majority Leader Rep. Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City, and in the Senate by Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik, R-Thornton.…
