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Jun 04, 2007
Quickie Link: Colorado Morphs from Hate to Great State
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By vanrozenheim
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(USA) - From hate state to great state? Colorado's transformation in the past few weeks is nothing short of amazing. When measured on the civil rights yardstick set by progressive states like Massachusetts, Connecticut or California, the recent breakthroughs in Colorado might seem modest. But Colorado is no ordinary state, and victories there carry special symbolic significance. In 1992, voters in Colorado, which had become headquarters for a number of anti-gay organizations, passed the infamous Amendment 2: It created two classes of citizens -- gays and everybody else -- by prohibiting all state and local officials from doing anything to protect gay people from discrimination.
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