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Editorial: On the wrong side of history
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| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 01, 2011 05:53pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Denver Post |
| News Date | Friday, April 1, 2011 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Six Republicans etched their names onto the wrong side of history Thursday night when they killed a bill that would have allowed for civil unions in Colorado.
In not too many years, Coloradans will look back and wonder how, in 2011, we could deny certain rights to our fellow Coloradans just because they happened to be gay. It will be similar to how many people look back to the 1960s and wonder how it was possible that states had laws to prevent blacks and whites from marrying each other.
It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
Yet Thursday, a few Republicans chose to keep Colorado from walking forward with other states that have recognized that gay citizens, and their children, deserve the same legal protections the rest of us enjoy.
"What makes me saddest," said Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, the bill's House sponsor, "is there were people on that committee who were, I think, supportive in their hearts but weren't willing to stand up against the leadership and the far-right fringe of their party."
Civil unions — and we'll go a step further and say gay marriage — are about equality, and their time is coming. The tide of public opinion is turning, and it's turning quickly.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll released just last week shows a majority of Americans now support gay marriage. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed said gay marriage should be legal — the first time a majority has backed gay marriage in that particular survey. Other polls echo those findings.
Back in 2006, when Coloradans voted against Referendum I, which would have created civil unions in this state, only 32 percent of Americans supported gay marriage. |
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