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… that Colorado is not always at the foremost fringe on some political issues, the Musgrave Amendment, a US constitutional amendment banning gay marriage introduced by a Colorado Representative, is DOA in the Colorado statehouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Granted, we do have a state constitutional provision defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. But at least they don’t want to enshrine it in the US <\/i>Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… that Colorado is not always at the foremost fringe on some political issues, the Musgrave Amendment, a US constitutional amendment banning gay marriage introduced by a Colorado Representative, is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[25,718,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9880,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/the_shift_in_gay_marriage.html","url_meta":{"origin":5333,"position":0},"title":"The shift in gay marriage bans","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Oct-06 10:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2004, thirteen states passed constitutional amendments declaring marriage as being one-man+one-woman. 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