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Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall is continuing to issue marriage licenses today in defiance of her state Attorney General. Despite warnings from Colorado Attorney General John Suthers that the documents aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, same-sex couples lined up at the Boulder County Clerk’s office Thursday morning to get marriage licenses. Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall began …

“I am relying on the 10th Circuit’s statement that marriage is a fundamental right. Because the Court stayed its mandate, officials in Utah will not have to implement the decision immediately. Even so, I believe the opinion is clear and it is important to act immediately. Colorado’s prohibition on same sex marriage has treated our family, friends and co-workers have …

The two lawsuits to overturn Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage got their first hearing yesterday in a state court. The suits were filed separately but were merged earlier this year. The judge hearing the case mocked the state’s argument that Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage protects the “nature of marriage” and the ability to produce children. Adams County District Court …

Speaking to Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Nicolle Martin, who just fucking lost her bakery case in Colorado, KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins declared that gay rights advocates are going to start “rolling out the boxcars” for Christians.

“For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand. But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the …

“Not only has the Christian baker been ordered to ‘cease and desist’ from ‘discrimination’ against gay couples, but he and his staff have been ordered to undergo two years of ‘training’ to assure that no further ‘discrimination’ occurs. The baker must report quarterly to the state Civil Right Commission about how it is changing its policies, its “training” progress and …

“Slavery, by definition, is involuntary servitude. It is being forced to provide labor or produce a product against one’s own will. When a man is forced, under threat of being sent to jail, to do work that he would not do unless he was compelled to do it, he is no longer a free man but a slave. We fought …

“In America, we don’t separate a person’s creative expression from what he believes. Jack simply exercised the long-cherished American freedom to decline to use his artistic and creative talents to promote a message with which he disagrees. Because the government should not force him to choose between his faith and his livelihood, we are considering an appeal to the Colorado …

Breaking news from the ACLU: The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled that a Lakewood bakery violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple, because of the owner’s personal religious beliefs. At a public hearing today, the commission rejected the bakery’s appeal of an earlier finding of unlawful discrimination by an administrative judge. …

From Why Marriage Matters Colorado: In its ongoing work to demonstrate that the broad majority of Coloradans support the freedom to marry, Why Marriage Matters Colorado, a coalition of state and national organizations, released a 30-second television spot featuring a group of local veterans standing up for their gay comrade in arms. The ad, airing statewide, features three military veterans …

Clip recap: “Anti-gay groups are getting desperate, with one candidate for governor comparing marriage equality to murder. An Alabama scheme to slip a marriage ban into the US Constitution is moving forward but is pretty much guaranteed to fail. A judge in Ohio rules that marriage equality isn’t only for dead people anymore. Plus, a major marriage victory in Utah …

Back in 2012, Virginia-based anti-gay crackpot Eugene Delgaudio lifted the above wedding photo from the blog of a New Jersey gay couple, replaced the New York City skyline backdrop with snow-covered trees, and used the image for a flyer that attacked a pro-gay marriage candidate for the Colorado state Senate. After first sending an cease-and-desist order, in September of that …

A marriage equality lawsuit is in the works in Colorado, but there’s something funky going on behind the scenes. On Monday afternoon, the law firm Reilly Pozner announced a press conference at its downtown offices at 10 a.m. Tuesday but declined to say what the suit was about, only that “nine Colorado couples, four of whom are legally married, will …

Raw Story has the crazy crazy details: A Colorado Springs pastor is accused of soliciting gay men for sex online, then attacking them and robbing them under the guise of a U.S. marshal making an arrest. According to Denver’s CBS Channel 4, friends and relatives of Set Free Christian Ministry’s Rev. Michael Abromovich are completely baffled to discover his secret …

Last month a Colorado court ruled that a local baker broke the law when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. The ruling spurred outraged cases of the sadz from many anti-gay groups. Yesterday the Alliance Defending Freedom, which lost the case the first time, filed an appeal. An ADF attorney claims that “forcing Americans to …

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“I challenge any same-sex marriage activist to take to their blog or to pen an op-ed doubling down on the opinion that what cake decorators and bakers do isn’t a form of artistry and doesn’t deserve protections as a form of expression! And I’d be willing to bet if this case had involved a portrait painter, or a photographer, or …