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Posts Tagged Glbt Issues

Coming Out Of The Stone Age

By | 08.19.07 | 12:13 pm

Only in Colorado Springs, it seems, a festival designed to celebrate diversity is destined to run into trouble. First was the concern, expressed by several city council members, that gays and lesbians might come.

And last week a…

Democrats Scolded For Meeting With ‘Homosexuals’

By | 08.11.07 | 4:35 pm

Sandwiched between a video-editorial bashing Newsweek for reporting global warming is real and a story claiming that “hate-crimes legislation is a bad idea on steroids”, Focus on the Family’s online “news” site CitizenLink is currently taking Democratic presidential…

Big Money Raised in Colorado Over Gay Marriage Amendment

By | 07.23.07 | 2:02 pm

A new report from the non-partisan National Institute on Money in State Politics examines the money behind the 2006 state-level constitutional amendments banning gay marriage including Amendment 43 in Colorado, which was approved by 55 percent of voters.

The…

Where Diversity Doesn’t Include Gays

By | 04.13.07 | 2:51 pm

Colorado Springs is the state’s second largest city. It has a longtime and widespread reputation of being, to put it delicately, diversity-challenged. And two members of the city council have once again cranked up the anti-gay rhetoric.

The debate…

Senate OKs Second-Parent Adoption Bill

By | 04.11.07 | 5:42 pm

The Colorado Senate today gave a preliminary OK today to HB 1330, a bill that would allow second-parent adoption.

The Rocky Mountain News has the story:

A measure to allow gay couples to adopt won the Senate’s

Gay Parents Exist, Legal Rights or Not

By | 03.21.07 | 1:52 pm

Barbara Lavender knows gay couples can provide supportive, loving homes for their children. She also knows these families are even more stable when both partners are legally recognized as parents. The Boulder lawyer knows this because she’s helped make it…

Unborn Gay Baby Stance Stirs Up a Firestorm

By | 03.16.07 | 2:04 pm

If. If. If.

If a well-known evangelical Christian leader thought that scientists may indeed determine there is a biological basis for homosexuality, and if he actually wrote that in his blog that was widely disseminated, then he’d certainly have…

Lesbian Activists Arrested At Focus HQ

By | 02.19.07 | 7:59 pm

They went to Focus on the Family world headquarters, took the guided tour, futilely asked to see ministry founder James Dobson, refused to leave, and got arrested.

It was pretty much what Dotti Berry and Robynne Sapp expected of…