{"id":27586,"date":"2012-04-25T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/baby-steps-in-colorado.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:28:14","slug":"baby-steps-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/baby-steps-in-colorado.html","title":{"rendered":"Baby steps in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another step closer to equality in Colorado.  Not nearly all the way there, but   another step.<\/p>\n<p>The comment section is, of course, not for the faint of heart (unless you&#39;ve had enough to drink).  <i>Yes, of course it&#39;s a sign of the End Times and the extinction of the human race.  Here, have some more tequila.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fextras.mnginteractive.com%2Flive%2Fmedia%2Fsite36%2F2012%2F0425%2F20120425__DougMisner%7Ep1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_20476775\/colorado-senate-hear-debate-today-civil-union-bill'>Colorado Senate initially approves civil union bill &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Democratic-controlled state Senate gave initial approval to a civil union bill for gay couples today after a lengthy floor debate that included a controversial amendment from Sen. Shawn Mitchell, &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FtmBpqqZxcj' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FtmBpqqZxcj' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another step closer to equality in Colorado. Not nearly all the way there, but another step. The comment section is, of course, not for the faint of heart (unless you&#39;ve had enough to drink). Yes, of course it&#39;s a sign of the End Times and the extinction of the human race. Here, have some more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/baby-steps-in-colorado.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baby steps in Colorado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32845,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/colorado-finally-gets-civil-unions.html","url_meta":{"origin":27586,"position":0},"title":"Colorado (finally) gets civil unions","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Mar-13 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A major step -- but, honestly, still a \"separate but equal\" kind of arrangement.Reshared post from +The Denver PostColorado civil unions bill signed into law by Gov. 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