Colorado: Domestic Partnerships Proposed for State

Colorado voters this year may see another attempt to offer gay couples similar rights afforded to married couples. Proponents have begun pushing a marriage equality initiative that would give same-sex couples equal legal rights as married couples, including issues concerning property rights, health care decisions and tax benefits, to name a few. The initiative would allow gay couples to form a domestic partnership. A similar initiative, Referendum I, failed in 2006, with 53 percent of voters rejecting the question. But proponents of this latest push believe the political climate in Colorado has shifted, offering them a better chance at convincing voters that now is the time for marriage equality. “The LGBT community kind of underestimated the opposition’s political power (in 2006), and I think since then Colorado has become a lot more liberal on gay issues,” Joseph Soto, the initiative’s lead proponent, said of the change in the political climate over the past four years. “We’re one of the few states that has hate crime protections, job place discrimination protection, protection from housing discrimination … so I think that Coloradans will vote to approve marriage equality because in the past four years, I think the Legislature, as well as different organizations, have capitalized on the need for civil rights.” Full Story from the Denver Daily News: http://www.thedenverdailynews.com/article.php?aID=6842

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