Posted on 12/19/2022 5:24:54 AM PST by real saxophonist
Colorado has a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
by: Gabrielle Franklin
Posted: Dec 18, 2022
DENVER (KDVR) — President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law this week.
The measure solidifies the federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriage, but the constitutional right to those marriages still relies on Supreme Court precedent.
Before Coloradans were given the right to same-sex marriages in late 2014, just before the marriages became legal nationwide in 2015 , voters added language to ban the recognition of those marriages through a 2006 amendment in the state’s constitution. Now advocates are looking to remove it.
“If the Supreme Court does overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, which was the landmark ruling in 2015, it would mean that the right to marry would go back to the states, and Colorado clearly has a constitutional ban on the right to marry,” One Colorado Deputy Director Garrett Royer said. He said the LGBTQ advocacy organization is prioritizing protecting same-sex marriages in Colorado in the future.
“Because it’s a constitutional amendment, we’d have to go one step further than the state legislature,” Royer said. “We’d have to go the voters, which will require a 55% threshold of Colorado voters voting in favor of removing Amendment 43 and then, therefore, guaranteeing the right to marry any two adults in the state of Colorado.”
55% approved constitutional same-sex marriage ban
State Rep. Leslie Herod attended the bill signing for the Respect for Marriage Act on the White House lawn, saying the move from the president is monumental.
“I was invited by the White House because of my decades-long work on LGBTQ equality, my fight for marriage in Colorado, and also I think because I’m the first African American LGBTQ elected person in Colorado,” the Democrat from Denver said. “When we see this bill being signed, it makes us so proud, but then it also makes us remember that we have to get to work in Colorado to ensure that these same protections are codified under Colorado law and we are doing just that.”
Around 55% of Colorado voters said yes to defining marriage as between a man and a woman through Amendment 43, while only around 45% of voters went against it in 2006. Advocates believe the vote would be different if they bring it back to voters now.
“The Colorado community has consistently stepped up and fought for LGBTQ rights, fought for LGBTQ equality,” Herod said. “This will be no different: We will win in Colorado and we will have the support of the people in Colorado. Discrimination, I wish we could say it was a thing of the past, but it’s not and it’s going to take an active fight in order to ensure that we are all protected.”
These talks of change for same-sex marriage protections are coming after the Club Q shooting and amid a wait on a Supreme Court ruling for yet another LGBTQ rights case coming from Colorado. An exact timeline for action on this matter is unclear.
Now the perverts not only insist I come into their bedroom, but that I approve of what they do there.
The left’s definition of democracy: keep voting until you get the desired result, then never vote on it again.
Rights, of any kind, are NOT 'given' by any government.
We let the camel get his nose under the tent and he simply waltzed right in and shit all over the place.
Wow, I am glad they detailed that for me. Once they said around 55% said yes I was very interested in the percentage that said no. If they hadn't said it here I might have never known.
Well, this is a writer who lives in a liberal world where grooming is a preferred school subject above math, so...
I ring the doorbell, no answer.
I knock, no answer.
Finally, Police Knock. BAM BAM BAM. Still no answer.
So I look in the window, and through the sheer curtains, I see two people making out. I finally yell 'DOMINOS', and they scrambled. It was two guys.
One thing about gay guys, they tend to tip pretty well. Lesbians, not so much.
This is probably what is causing all those Colorado mass shootings. They’re all nuts there.
I liked it better when the perverts said, "Stay out of my bedroom", and I was happy to do that.That was always a bait and switch. Also see my tagline.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 14-2-104
Current through 2022 Legislative Session and 11/8/2022 Election
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, a marriage is valid in this state if: (a) It is licensed, solemnized, and registered as provided in this part 1; and
(b) It is only between one man and one woman.
https://casetext.com/statute/colorado-revised-statutes/title-14-domestic-matters/marriage-and-rights-of-married-persons/article-2-marriage-and-rights-of-married-persons/part-1-uniform-marriage-act/section-14-2-104-formalities
The USSC declared the above statute and the Colorado Constitutional provision unconstitutional under the USC. The USSC can declare laws unconstitutional but has no legislative authority to replace them. Colorado has not replaced these laws to comply with the USSC decision.
Is there any legal basis for marriage in Colorado? Does marriage exist in Colorado?
Colorado's state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was struck down in state district court on July 9, 2014, and by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on July 23, 2014. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals had already made similar rulings with respect to such bans in Utah on June 25 and Oklahoma on July 18, which are binding precedents on courts in Colorado. On October 6, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Tenth Circuit cases, and the Tenth Circuit lifted its stay. On October 7, 2014, the Colorado Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Colorado.[3]
Thanks, both of y’all.
I wonder if the communist-majority of Boulder are aware of this law ... I’m betting not. Population there are mostly go-along-to-get-along sheeple submissively doing and saying what their local leftist talking point providers tell them.
Watch for exploding heads over there as this news gets around ...
I expect the left to now push their states, where they have power, to recind their constitutional amendments defining marriage. I think California has done so, but haven’t heard of any others. Maybe Ore-gone?
If homosexual identity is real then why does it require affirmation in order to exist?
At least they were just making out.
Most all states that brought that question up,same sex marriage, voted it down.
Not speaking specifically to this one but it is way to easy to put amendments into the CO constitution and much more difficult to remove them. That is why I am very careful about voting for an ammendment even if I would support it as a law.
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