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Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail

Denver drops charge in "McCain=Bush" case

By Blake Couch - Aug 12th, 2009 at 6:52 pm EDT

After pursuing the case for over a year, the City and County of Denver today dropped its trespass charge against librarian Carol Kreck from July of '08. Cross-posted on DailyKos.com - see http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/12/765642/-Denver-drops-charge-in-McCainBush-case Read More »

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Marriage amendment perverts the Constitution

By Blake Couch - Jun 6th, 2006 at 12:08 am EDT

Also listed in: Arapahoe County

The marriage amendment would not only be the first Constitutional amendment since Prohibition to reduce the rights of the people. It would also be the first ever to directly contradict other parts of the Constitution, namely, the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Establishment clause of the First.

"Nor [shall any state] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"

To the extent that the state recognizes or sanctions marriage in any legal sense, it cannot deny the benefits of that sanction to any person or group of people without violating Equal Protection. Private institutions, like churches, can choose not to perform same sex weddings, but the state cannot give legal standing to one type of marriage without giving the same standing to all types.

There is no basis for denying the marriage sanction to same sex couples except on the grounds of religious belief. Given that, the marriage amendment would write religion into the Constitution itself, which would be grossly at odds with the First Amendment. This would effectively destroy the time-honored separation of church and state, which serves to protect all religion from government interference.

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