gay rights
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THE PODIUM | Colorado’s Bennet, Gardner must scrutinize court pick on LGBTQ rights
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In a few short weeks, the nation will be watching closely as the U.S. Senate begins its confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been tapped by President Trump as the replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy. If confirmed to the highest court in the land, Kavanaugh would be tasked with immediately deciding…
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MARK HILLMAN | Hold government accountable — and call off the culture wars
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. Colorado’s Western spirit has long embodied a live-and-let-live creed that respects personal freedom and preserves the citizens’ control over government, both firmly rooted in the Colorado Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Those principles exist in constant tension as…
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Republican Colorado Attorney General Coffman sides with state law, not Masterpiece cake baker
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is defending the state’s nondiscrimination law to the U.S. Supreme Court and not a Lakewood baker who refused to serve a gay couple, citing his religion. Coffman filed the brief to the high court on behalf of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, one of the parties in Masterpiece Cakeshop v.…
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Protesters clad in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ outfits turn out to welcome Mike Pence to Colorado Springs
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Protesters cloaked in red robes and wearing white bonnets like characters in the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” greeted Vice President Mike Pence on Friday when he spoke at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. The 1985 Margaret Atwood novel depicts a dystopian society under fundamentalist rule where women are treated…
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Protesters plan to greet Mike Pence in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ garb at Focus on the Family speech in Colorado Springs
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Some of the protesters planning to welcome Vice President Mike Pence to Colorado Springs on Friday will be wearing red robes and white bonnets from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which depicts a fundamentalist society that treats women as property, organizers told Colorado Politics. “It’s our way of making kind of a shocking statement,”…
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In surprise turn, Senate ‘kill committee’ green lights gay-rights harassment bill
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A state Senate committee packed with a conservative Republican-majority voted unanimously on Wednesday to advance a bill that would stiffen penalties for those who harass Coloradans for being gay or disabled. Gay rights supporters reacted with a jolt after the vote. They had braced for yet another defeat in the infamously hardline State Affairs “kill”…
