Gay-rights activists gathered Monday at the Colorado Capitol for a special legislative session to consider civil unions said they were fired up to lobby for a measure that died on a Republican maneuver last week – but skeptical the matter would fare better in the special session.
Hundreds of activists wearing red and waving signs greeted lawmakers returning to Denver for the special session, which was called by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper last week to reconsider what he called “a fundamental question of fairness and civil rights.”
... Conservatives sought to portray the special session as a waste of taxpayer money. As they have before, Republicans describe the measure as a proposal for gay marriage, rather than civil unions.
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Merging SSM with marriage via civil union or domestic partnership etc is a bad idea. Society does not need a new relationship status attached to the hip of marriage. Society may legitimately discriminate between marriage and nonmarriage without undermining the distinction with measures that equate marriage with nonmarriage.
Provision for reciprocal beneficiaries more than suffices. It is not marital status but that is the point. Society needs to affirm and sustain the marriage distinction. Such provision has long-existed; it answers the plea for protection equality for those vulnerable families -- especially those with children -- which populate the nonmarriage category.
That category is not exclusively gaycentric; nor is it sexualized; it is mostly nonsexual and nongay. But, contrary to SSMers, there is no justification for elevating the gay subset of nonmarriage with a relationship status on par with marital status, anyway. Neither gay identity politics nor same-sex sexual attraction nor same-sex sexual behavior provides the justification.
Marriage is marriage -- the union of husband and wife -- and there is no requirement that society allow a subset of nonmarriage to piggyback on marital status.
Another excelllent post from Chairm.
Ever notice the following narrative: Whenever republicans focus on social issues, it's a "distraction". But when democrats do it, it's an "emergency" worthy of a special session of the legislature. I really wish the media wouldn't let dems get away with this BS, but alas they do.
Give them hosptital visitation rights and inheritance etc. but reserve tax benefits for married couples. We cant just give them to everyone you know. Most Amerians find homosexuals disgusting creatures