{"id":31138,"date":"2012-11-05T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/likely-voters-in-colorado-back-legal-recognition-for-gay-couples.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:22:59","slug":"likely-voters-in-colorado-back-legal-recognition-for-gay-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/likely-voters-in-colorado-back-legal-recognition-for-gay-couples.html","title":{"rendered":"Likely voters\u00a0in Colorado back legal recognition for gay couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s kind of nice to hear. \u00a0Interestingly, more of that number favor marriage over civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, back in 2006, we managed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. \u00a0So it will be something of a fight to change things around again. And, of course, polls are one thing, ballot battles another. \u00a0I suspect we&#39;ll see a civil unions law first, and soon, given how narrowly the last one was defeated in the legislature.<\/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='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site36\/2012\/1102\/20121102_112914_civlunion_300.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' 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\/politics\/ci_21919018\/poll-majority-coloradans-back-legal-recognition-gay-couples'>Poll: Majority of Coloradans back legal recognition for gay couples &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNearly 70 percent of Coloradans support some sort of legal recognition for gay couples, but more favor marriage over civil unions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/D8ex7V9GZh6' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#39;s kind of nice to hear. \u00a0Interestingly, more of that number favor marriage over civil unions. Of course, back in 2006, we managed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. \u00a0So it will be something of a fight to change things around again. And, of course, polls are one thing, ballot battles another. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/likely-voters-in-colorado-back-legal-recognition-for-gay-couples.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Likely voters\u00a0in Colorado back legal recognition for gay couples&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,25,718,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5435,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/11\/changing_the_mi.html","url_meta":{"origin":31138,"position":0},"title":"Changing the Middle Ground","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Mar-04 5:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Was it only July 2000? 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