Utah appeals marriage ruling to the Supreme Court
UTAH’s attorney general today filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court appealing the ruling delivered in June by a federal court in Denver striking down that state’s gay marriage ban. Court...
View ArticleThrow-Back Beauprez: He joined Musgrave, Akin in 2006 push for federal...
DENVER — As state courts here and federal appeals courts around the country consider the constitutionality of Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban, Gov. John Hickenlooper and his re-election campaign...
View ArticleSupreme Court to begin reviewing gay marriage cases
Today the U.S. Supreme Court will begin weighing which cases to hear in its coming session, and at the top of the list is the raft of marriage-equality cases that have lined up at federal appeals...
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AG Suthers: Gay marriage will be legal in Colorado
BOULDER, Colo. — The Supreme Court on Monday decided to green-light gay marriage in at least five states by deciding not to hear any appeals on state gay-marriage bans this year. Reacting to the...
View ArticleHigh court non-decision brings marriage equality to one-time ‘hate state’
“I’m shaking with emotion, I’ve been shaking all day,” said Kate Burns, standing before the Byron White U.S. 10th Circuit courthouse in Denver. Behind her, the lawyers arguing the federal case she...
View ArticleColorado’s swift, swerving trip to marriage equality
DENVER — Jubilant supporters of marriage equality here Monday said that, in hindsight, the glimmer of victory shone in defeats. There was Amendment 2, which in 1992 legalized discrimination against...
View ArticleLittwin: And then the justices did nothing, which meant everything
I think the first time I wrote that it was definitely all over on gay marriage was the day that Antonin Scalia wrote grudgingly, and as a warning, that it would soon be all over on gay marriage. Or...
View ArticleDenver Clerk Johnson on gay marriage: We’re open for business
It’s clearly a day of reward and relief for Denver County Clerk Debra Johnson, a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage — so much so that she agreed to deny gay couples marriage licenses so they...
View ArticleColoradans celebrate gay marriage, rally for upcoming elections
DENVER — Hundreds gathered here Wednesday night to celebrate and harness the political power rising from the legalization of same-sex marriage in Colorado. People of all ages crammed before the columns...
View ArticleWiretap: Vatican winks at twenty-first century
And now it has come to this: An assembly of Roman Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis has released a document calling for the church to welcome gay people, cohabiting couples and divorcees....
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