GOP legislatures hit back at gays on two fronts

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http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/05/15/gop-legislatures-hit-back-at-gays-on-two-fronts/

GOP legislatures hit back at gays on two fronts

In the week after President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage, Republican legislators in Colorado and Virginia have administered two harsh setbacks to the social acceptance of gays and lesbians.

Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty used his power to block approval of legislation that would have legalized civil unions for same-sex couples in the Rocky Mountain State.

The civil union bill had passed the Colorado State Senate. It had majority support on the floor of the state House of Representatives. But McNulty assigned the legislation to the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee — controlled by opponents.

The legislation failed to pass out of the committee on a 5-4 vote. McNulty railed against Democrats and Gov. John Hickenlooper, saying they were “pushing a last-minute, divisive attack on our traditional views of marriage.”

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1. Damn I wish I had been born in Canada. This, is really becoming

a hateful country.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Reactionary backlashes to any important civil rights progress always happen and always suck.

So much of the insanity of the past 3.5 years has seemed like an over-the-top RW reaction to having a black President.

They always kick and scream and drag their feet but they can not halt the march to a more inclusive future. Assholes. I always wonder how it feels to be someone who gets to tell their grandkids ~ oh, yeah, during the Civil Rights movement, I was one of the people screaming racist epithets at children integrating our local school. Ugh.