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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Denver Post , KMGH-TV , Rocky Mountain News Denver -- A lesbian couple who staged a sit-in at the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office after being denied a marriage license was found guilty today of trespassing. Denver County Judge James Breese sentenced Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder to 28 hours of community service each and ordered each to pay $41 in court costs, according to the Denver Post . (Other media outlets give slightly different figures for the fines.) The six-woman jury deliberated less than an hour before announcing the guilty verdict. Prosecutors argued that the couple...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Denver Post , 9News Denver , Vail Daily DENVER – Credit agencies, landlords and businesses could not discriminate against anyone based on their sexual orientation under a plan moving forward at the State Capitol. "This is about fairness, about equality, about treating every person in our state the same," said Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, the House sponsor of the bill. The House spent two hours debating the Senate Bill 200 Thursday as a number of Republican lawmakers spoke against it, several citing concerns over religious freedoms. Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said the...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Denver Post , Associated Press via Post Independent Denver -- The Colorado Senate gave preliminary approval today to a bill that would expand the prohibition of sexual orientation-based discrimination, but only after an intense floor debate that became personal and emotional after a senator offered a rhetorical amendment mocking the legislation. Republican Sen. Greg Brophy, who stands 5-foot-6, suggested changing the bill to protect short people from discrimination. Democratic Sen. Jennifer Veiga, who is a lesbian, took offense. She said it must nice to be able to mock discrimination experienced...
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Thursday, March 20
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Source: Denver Post Landlords, hotels, stores and restaurants in Colorado would be barred from discriminating against gays and lesbians under a bill that passed a Senate committee Wednesday. Senate Bill 200, sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Veiga, D-Denver, won approval in the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee despite objections from religious groups. The measure, passed on a 4-2 party-line vote, would extend to gays and lesbians the same sweeping civil rights protections in housing and public accommodations that already prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion and national...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: Associated Press via CBS4Denver , and Colorado Springs Gazette A year after protecting gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs, state lawmakers are considering outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation in other areas. A new bill sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Veiga, D-Denver, would make it illegal to deny gays and lesbians everything from an apartment rental to a burial plot. It takes the state's existing anti-discrimination laws and adds sexual orientation to the list of factors, such as race and national origin, that can't be considered. Veiga’s new bill would...
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Tuesday, February 12
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Source: Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post What could become the first step in a legal challenge to Colorado's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage goes to court Wednesday, while a related case asks the court overturn Amendment 43, a voter-approved ballot measure that defines marriage in Colorado as the union of one man and one woman. Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder, of Englewood, on Monday filed suit in Denver County Court, asking that Amendment 43 be declared unconstitutional. No hearing date has been set on the lawsuit filed Monday, but Burns, 44, and Schroeder, 43, are scheduled to...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Rocky Mountain News , Christian Post , and TruthWinsOut press release A team appointed to oversee Ted Haggard's "spiritual restoration" after scandal forced him to end his ministry at New Life Church has agreed to his request to end their oversight of his recovery program. New Life Church issued a statement Tuesday saying it believes that the termination of the relationship is premature, but would not say why. Earlier in the process, church leaders had said they assumed that Haggard's recovery could take several years. The Colorado Springs evangelical congregation that...
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Friday, January 18
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Source: Aspen Times ASPEN, Colo. -- Sports Illustrated asked athletes in the four major professional leagues in March 2006 whether they would welcome an openly gay teammate. The results of the anonymous surveys concluded that a majority of players wouldn’t take issue with a homosexual teammate in the locker room. The National Hockey League had the highest positive response, at 79.9 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, the NFL had the smallest majority, at 56.9 percent. Two years later, there’s an obvious follow-up question: If there’s seemingly a majority of support for homosexual athletes...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: Denver Post Since 1965, U.S. immigration policy has had a clearly stated priority: "family reunification." In the past five years alone, this policy has enabled the legal spouses of 1.3 million Americans to gain permanent legal residency here. But for the 35,820 U.S. citizens counted by the 2000 census as living with same-gender partners from other countries — nearly half with children — this provision does not apply. If separated, binational gay and lesbian families trying to unify, legally, can face a bureaucratic, heartbreaking and often insurmountable challenge. Caught in...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Denver Post As part of occasional series that examines broad themes about being gay in America, Denver Post writer Lisa Kennedy profiles a Colorado African American minister whose world changed when he came out to his congregation. It's a story that reflects tensions occurring in churches throughout the world. The Rev. Benjamin Reynolds Denver Post photo by Kathryn Scott Osler "Hello, little brothers and sisters," Rev. Ben says, taking a seat before a knot of children. Doors thrown open, the hexagon-shaped Boulder sanctuary grows warmer. The pastor's floor-length cassock...
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