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    <title>COEqual</title>
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    <description>2006 was a crossroads for equality in Colorado.  

James Dobson  forced a ban on legal recognition of gay relationships in Colorado last November.  

Join this group to be part of a grassroots-led equality revolution.</description>
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            <title>The Angie Zapata Act</title>
            <description>           
 Wednesday, President Obama  signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act , a bill that has been championed mainly by Democratic members of Congress for over a decade in the face of largely  Republican opposition  based on  hideous lies  from legalizing pedophilia to canceling the free exercise clause.  Somewhat lost in the celebration and remembrance of Matthew Shepard, the bill&#039;s namesake, was the story of Angie Zapata, an 18 year-old transgender woman from Greeley. She was brutally beaten to death with a fire extinguisher and left for dead just over a year ago because, as the thug who murdered confessed, &quot;gay things must die.&quot;  &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s not like I went up to a school teacher and shot her in the head or killed a straight, law-abiding citizen,&quot; he boasted to his girlfriend in a jailhouse-recorded phone conversation. And if he were to ever encounter a gay person in prison, he proclaimed that he would kill that &quot;pink-shirt wearing motherfucker.&quot; </description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:14:32 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>The Great Nationwide Kiss-In: Denver</title>
            <description>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115471915685 
  
During the last several months LGBT couples have been harassed, threatened and even arrested in Texas and Utah for public displays of affection. In December, two women in San Antonio were arrested for &amp;#8220;making out.&amp;#8221; In El Paso, on June 29, at a Chico&amp;#8217;s Tacos restaurant two men were handcuffed and threatened with arrest by police after one kissed the other on the cheek. On July 10, in Salt Lake City, two men were detained by security guards of the Mormon Church, and then arrested by police: 
  
&gt; http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/02/04/2009-02-04_kissing_is_no_crime_say_women_arrested_i-1.html 
  
&gt; http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12790543 
  
&gt; http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12811907 
  
Anyone should be able to kiss whomever they want, whenever and wherever they want. Therefore, bloggers David Badash and David Mailloux, and Join the Impact&amp;#8217;s Willow Witte, have organized the Great Nationwide Kiss-In: http://www.bilerico.com/2009/08/great_nationwide_kiss-in.php 
  
In Denver, the Kiss-In will take place on the 16th Street Mall between Glenarm and Tremont (on the median between the shuttle lanes) at noon on Saturday August 15th (with set-up at 11:40 am). Same-gender and mixed-gender couples are invited to help us send a fun, upbeat and g-rated message we should never be afraid of brief, unimposing displays of affection. There&#039;s not enough love and affection in the world. 
 
ALL members of the LGBTQQIA community are welcome to participate by holding signs, handing out fliers, and acting as peacekeepers. 
  
Following the kiss-in the group will take a walk down the 16th Street Mall to a picnic at Skyline Park (Arapahoe/16th) behind the clock tower. (Food can be purchased at The Corner Bakery and several other casual eateries in the immediate vicinity.) 
  
We are designing event t-shirts. Please send orders to Joshua Dannemann at ellipsysis@live.com. The cost will not exceed $10/ea. 
  
Other questions: 303-800-5664 or soulforceincolorado@gmail.com</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:12:06 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Christopher Hubble</dc:creator>
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            <title>Federal Hate Crimes Senate Vote Tonight</title>
            <description> In each of our lives, we experience moments of shock that we will never forget. When Kennedy was shot in 1963. When the Challenger exploded over Florida in 1986.        For me, it was when 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence, and left for dead on a cold October night in 1998. Matt was killed because he was gay. It sent chills of terror through the gay and lesbian community because the message was clear:   you&#039;re next  .    Matt&#039;s murder sparked a national movement to amend the federal hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation, gender, or disability.     After ten years, that change in law is finally in sight. Tonight, the U.S. Senate will vote on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Both Senator Mark Udall and Senator Michael Bennet are cosponsors of this bill. The House version of the bill passed earlier this year with the support of six Colorado Representatives, and President Obama has committed to signing it.      Will you sign our virtual thank-you card to the members of the Colorado delegation who support this important law?      http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/HateCrimesThanks    Angie Zapata was an 18 year-old transgender woman from Greeley who had just moved into her first apartment on her own. She was murdered--in her killer&#039;s own words--because &quot; all gay things need to die .&quot; </description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:43:14 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>The Fierce Urgency of Whenever</title>
            <description>  Read this piece from Andrew Sullivan at  The Atlantic  . It&#039;s pretty biting, and yet there&#039;s nothing I can see with it that is untrue. What&#039;s wrong with this picture?  
  Here we are, in the summer of 2009, with gay servicemembers still being fired for the fact of their orientation. Here we are, with marriage rights spreading through the country and world and a president who cannot bring himself even to acknowledge these breakthroughs in civil rights, and having no plan in any distant future to do anything about it at a federal level. Here I am, facing a looming deadline to be forced to leave my American husband for good, and relocate abroad because the HIV travel and immigration ban remains in force and I have slowly run out of options (unlike most non-Americans with HIV who have no options at all).  And what is Obama doing about any of these things? What is he even  intending  at some point to do about these things? So far as I can read the administration, the answer is: nada. We&#039;re firing Arab linguists? So sorry. We won&#039;t recognize in any way a tiny minority of legally married couples in several states because they&#039;re, ugh, gay? We had no idea. There&#039;s a ban on HIV-positive tourists and immigrants? Really? Thanks for letting us know. Would you like to join Joe Solmonese and John Berry for cocktails? The inside of the White House is  fabulous  these days.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:24:10 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>U.S. House of Representatives Passes Federal Hate Crimes Legislation</title>
            <description>  Editor&#039;s note:  the roll-call vote shows that GOP Rep. Mike Coffman did in fact vote for the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. We regret the error and thank Rep. Coffman for his support.  By a vote of 249 to 175, the House of Representatives just passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. All of Colorado&#039;s Democratic representatives voted for the bill.  
 Watch Representative Polis speak during the debate, it&#039;s very good:  
           
 Watch Representative Markey speak in favor of the bill (she rocks!)  
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:12:48 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Prosecution Rests in Angie Zapata case</title>
            <description>   The trial of Angie Zapata&#039;s accused murderer Allen Andrade has reached a milestone in that the prosecution has rested its case. So far we&#039;ve heard all kinds of heinous testimony and evidence of hatred and violence in this case.  You can follow the rest of the trial on  AngieZapata.com  include live updates viw Twitter from the courtroom from Pam&#039;s House Blend blogger Autumn Sandeen and the Greeley Tribune, all aggregated on this site. </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:46:39 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Light a candle for Angie Zapata</title>
            <description>Angie Zapata was brutally murdered in Greeley, Colorado in July 2008. Angie was a transgender woman and she was murdered because of anti-transgender bias. 
 
On April 14, 2009, her alleged killer will go on trial in Greeley, Colorado. The trial marks the first time that Colorado&#039;s gender identity-inclusive hate crimes statute--and in fact any state&#039;s hate crimes law--has been applied in the investigation and prosecution of an anti-transgender murder case. 
 
The tragic circumstances of Angie&#039;s death gives Coloradans an opportunity to better understand Angie&#039;s life and the lives of transgender people. It offers a chance to talk about the importance of Colorado&#039;s hate crime law. And it highlights the need to stop excluding people from the protections of a federal hate crimes law simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. 
 
           
 
Learn more about Angie Zapata, Colorado&#039;s hate crimes law, and light a candle for Angie:  http://www.angiezapata.com/ </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:32:13 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>NATIONAL CALL FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ISSUED – NEW WEBSITE SEEKS TO EDUCATE PUBLIC</title>
            <description>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
 
In response to the growing equality movement in California and across the country, community organizers are issuing a call for the use of nonviolent civil disobedience to further the cause. This call comes at a time when the equality movement is energized surrounding the upcoming California Supreme Court decision on the validity of Proposition 8.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:53:47 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Christopher Hubble</dc:creator>
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            <title>Upcoming dialogue event and marriage equality direct actions...</title>
            <description>Hello Friends, 
 
Two quick notes... 
 
1) Soulforce in Colorado is in the early stages of organizing a dialogue event with an inter-religious dialogue class at Naropa in Boulder. This will be an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in practicing nonviolent communication. The event will occur from 7-9 pm on a Tuesday or Thursday evening sometime in April. Please let me know if you might be interested. 
 
2) We are also beginning to plan for future marriage equality direct actions in Denver and elsewhere throughout Colorado. If you or anyone you know would like to help organize a sit-in and/or civil disobedience for marriage equality, please let me know. There will be more info available at our planning meeting on Saturday, March 21, 2009, 1-3 pm at The GLBT Center of Colorado (1050 Broadway in Denver). 
 
Chris 
303-800-5664 
cahubble08@gmail.com</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:55:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Christopher Hubble</dc:creator>
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            <title>Dialogue events and upcoming marriage equality actions...</title>
            <description>Hello Friends, 
 
Two quick notes... 
 
1) Soulforce in Colorado is in the early stages of organizing a dialogue event with an inter-religious dialogue class at Naropa in Boulder. This will be an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in practicing nonviolent communication. The event will occur from 7-9 pm on a Tuesday or Thursday evening sometime in April. Please let me know if you might be interested. 
 
2) We are also beginning to plan for future marriage equality direct actions in Denver and elsewhere throughout Colorado. If you or anyone you know would like to help organize a sit-in and/or civil disobedience for marriage equality, please let me know. There will be more info available at our planning meeting on Saturday, March 21, 2009, 1-3 pm at The GLBT Center of Colorado (1050 Broadway in Denver). 
 
Chris 
303-800-5664 
cahubble08@gmail.com</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:50:05 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Christopher Hubble</dc:creator>
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            <title>Dave Schultheis is Olbermann&#039;s &quot;Worst Person&quot; Runner-Up</title>
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Watch the video and then  tell Dave Schultheis what for .</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:30:27 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Greeley&#039;s State Senator Embarrased Our State</title>
            <description>    
 
   Click here to tell Scott Renfroe what you think!    
 On the floor of the State Senate yesterday, Senator Scott Renfroe (R-Greeley) actually referred to gay and lesbian people as an &amp;quot;abomination&amp;quot; and an &amp;quot;offense to God.&amp;quot;   &amp;nbsp;  It gets worse:  Renfroe equated gay and lesbian people with murderers and quoted the Book of Leviticus suggesting that gay people should be put to death.    He also said that women were created to be &amp;quot;helpers&amp;quot; for men, quoting the Book of Genesis.  Renfroe was referring to Senate Bill 88, a bill that would extend healthcare coverage to the same-sex partners of state employees. SB 88 is about healthcare. It&#039;s about gaining some measure of equality for gay and lesbian state employees. And regardless of how people like James Dobson and Scott Renfroe feel about gay people, their shameless hate-mongering has no place in public debate and we should reject them completely.   Respond to Scott Renfroe .   http://www.ProgressNowColorado.org/NoHateState   And please also forward this email to your friends and urge them to sign as well. ProgressNow Colorado will deliver your comments by the end of the week.   Sincerely,  Bobby Clark Deputy Director </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:31:41 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>There is a God: Limeys Boot Fred Phelps Hate Clan</title>
            <description> The British government has  put a halt to the Fred Phelps sideshow  before it has even begun:   The Phelpses, whose protests at military members&amp;rsquo; funerals in the U.S. have prompted lawsuits and legislation, apparently had planned to fly to the United Kingdom to protest a performance of &amp;ldquo;The Laramie Project.&amp;rdquo;  The play about the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay student who was killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyo., is scheduled to open today at Queen Mary&amp;rsquo;s College in Basingstoke, Hampshire.  &amp;ldquo;Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behavior by inciting hatred against a number of communities,&amp;rdquo; a U.K. Border Agency spokesman told the Times Online, the online site of  The Times  of London. &amp;ldquo;The government has made it clear it opposes extremism in all its forms.&amp;rdquo;   In America, the Phelpses have a Constitutional right to free expression, something I and others have  repeatedly   defended  here on this  blog .   Swastika Guy and Michelle Malkin , too, are certainly welcome to exercise their right to free expression as guaranteed by the Constitution, as we reserve our own right to combat their speech with free speech of our own.  It is tremendously disrespectful to the memory of 6 million dead Jews, gays, and other so-called &amp;quot;undesirables&amp;quot; during the Holocaust, not to mention the 400,000+ Americans who lost their lives fighting in World War II to cheapen their legacy by comparing a mainstream American politician to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, or any of their associated political ideologies.  People on the right who call President Obama a socialist don&#039;t know what socialism is. People on the right or left who would call President Obama or Bush a Nazi don&#039;t know what the word means.  I don&#039;t care where the comparison occurs, whether it&#039;s on the steps of our State Capitol or on this community blog where anyone can  create an account  and write for free, it&#039;s wrong. So please stop it. </description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:33:49 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Video from Yesterday&#039;s Stimulus Meetup with Senator Bennet</title>
            <description>Courtesy of  9News : 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:57:39 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Inside the Religious Right Mindset</title>
            <description>Because I&#039;m just that twisted, I subscribe to all of the right-wing e-mail lists to see what they are saying about us. This week&#039;s gem comes from &quot;Christian&quot; news source  OneNewsNow , dated February 13th, about a woman who was allegedly  kicked off the basketball team  at Central Michigan University for being heterosexual. 
 
    
 
More interesting than the content of the story is the included poll in which 63.4% of over 30,000 respondents indicated that their number one issue with the story is that only the far right is covering it and that &quot;the mainstream media would be all over this if the roles were reversed,&quot; The only problem with that is that the mainstream media was  &quot;all over this&quot; long before  OneNewsNow  picked it up .</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:54:42 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Soulforce in Colorado Rap Session on Mar 21 from 1-3 pm at The Center...</title>
            <description>Hello Friends, 
 
Please join Soulforce in Colorado for a rap session on Saturday, March 21, 1-3 pm at The GLBT Center of Colorado (1050 Broadway in Denver) to talk about goals for 2009 and beyond. Anyone who cares about &quot;Freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious &amp; political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance&quot; is welcome to attend. 
 
In between now and the meeting, let these three videos from Chicago motivate you to dream about what we can do here in Colorado… 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpqdzetAUCE  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LfdInfK8M 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P127n3Ocuzg  
 
 
Namaste, 
 
Christopher Hubble 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoulforceInColorado/ 
cahubble08@gmail.com 
303-800-5664 
 
&quot;When the bamboo forest goes, with it goes the sound of the flute.&quot; Hindu Proverb</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:58:56 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Christopher Hubble</dc:creator>
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            <title>Who do you trust to make medical decisions for you?</title>
            <description> We all know how important it is to have someone you have chosen make decisions on your behalf in medical emergencies or end-of-life care.  If you&#039;re married, then your spouse is entrusted by the state to make these decisions. But there are many unmarried Coloradans who&amp;nbsp;fall through the cracks--a widowed person&amp;nbsp;who could lose social security benefits, same-sex couples, and people who can&#039;t afford legal services.  http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/yesondb &amp;nbsp; That could change if House Bill 1260 passes out of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. HB 1260, the Designated Beneficiaries Bill would allow any two unmarried adults to go to the county clerk&#039;s office, pay a small fee and register as designated beneficiaries.&amp;nbsp;It&#039;s easy. It&#039;s quick. It could save an individual hundreds of dollars. And the small fee pays for the cost of the program.  Please take a minute, click on the link below and sign the petition in support of the Designated Beneficiaries Bill, a low-cost and convenient method for making plans for end-of-life decisions, inheritance, and&amp;nbsp;medical decisions.&amp;nbsp; We&#039;ll deliver your comments on Monday to the House Judiciary Committee.  http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/yesondb  Once you have taken action, please forward to your friends. It&#039;s time each of us have the ability to designate someone we trust to make hard decisions on our behalf in medical emergencies and in end-of-life care. </description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:40:25 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Alan Franklin</dc:creator>
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            <title>&quot;Fidelity&quot;: Don&#039;t Divorce...</title>
            <description>         &quot;Fidelity&quot;: Don&#039;t Divorce...  from  Courage Campaign  on  Vimeo . 
 
Produced by Courage Campaign, ProgressNow Colorado&#039;s California partner organization. 
 
Watch the video, then sign Courage Campaign&#039;s petition asking the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8: 
 
 http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce </description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Alan Franklin</dc:creator>
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            <title>Speak Out on Domestic Partnership Healthcare</title>
            <description>    Right now, with just one phone call or e-mail, we can help reduce the number of uninsured in Colorado and help our state move towards equality for same-sex couples.&amp;nbsp; Can you help?  Sen. Jennifer Veiga introduced Senate Bill 88 &amp;ndash; Domestic Partner Benefits, which would allow state employees to apply for health insurance for their partners.    Please contact your state senator and ask him or her to vote yes on Domestic Partner Benefits .  We have to act fast. Focus on the Family is already begging their vast network of right-wing zealots to contact their senators, claiming this bill somehow undermines marriage. We can&#039;t let them control the debate on this. SB 88 is not about marriage. It&#039;s about health insurance and fairness&amp;mdash;two items everyone can support.  Please, show your support.  Contact your senator now and urge them to say yes to SB 88 &amp;ndash; Domestic Partner Benefits .  </description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:29:09 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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            <title>Rick Warren Responds</title>
            <description>Saddleback Pastor and Obama inaugural invocation selectee Rick Warren recorded a new video, originally posted to his web site, in which he accuses gays of having &quot;Christ-ophobia&quot;--claiming that all gays are &quot;afraid of any Christian.&quot; 
 
Does he not know that gays and lesbians are Christians in just about the same proportion as the rest of America? 
 
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:39:27 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michael Ditto</dc:creator>
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