Colorado Civil union legislation passes second reading

Dan82 · Mar 23, 2011

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The Colorado Civil Union Act cleared its first vote in the state Senate today.

The bill, sponsored by Denver Democrat Pat Steadman, and co-sponsored by every other Democratic member of the Senate, passed after a debate mostly focused on reciprocity, or how Colorado would recognize civil unions and same-sex marriages from other states like Iowa and Illinois.

El Paso Republican Sen. Keith King raised the issue out of fear of long legal battles similar to the one in California where the state enacted civil unions and the state’s Supreme Court ruled the disparity between civil unions and full marriage equality was a case of separate and unequal.

King proposed an amendment that would establish Colorado’s law as the go-to in any case over reciprocity. While Steadman didn’t see the necessity for the bill, he considered it a friendly amendment.

Steadman said courts have built up a body of case law on how to handle these issues...

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Colorado Civil union legislation passes second reading

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