Date:         Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:45:18 -0600
From: James Yorton <jjy@xnet.com>
Subject:      (USA,CO) Romer Vetoes Anti-Marriage Bill

[ submitted by BCS41@aol.com ]

Ground Zero News Flash
Ground Zero Colorado springs

   Denver, CO   March 25, 1996  Colorado's  Democratic governor, Roy Romer,
today at 1:10 PM vetoed Colorado's mean-spirited and unconstitutional
anti-gay marriage bill. The bill had passed the Colorado legislature by
narrow margins in recent weeks.
   This bill was forced on the state by the theocratic right and religious
political extremists like Colorado for Family Values to promote their agenda
of intolerance and bigoty.
   Colorado already has a law that defines marriage as being between male and
female and a decision on the Hawaii law may several years away. In justifying
support of the "anti-gay mariage bill," Will Perkins of Colorado for Family
Values is reported to have said that we don't let humans marry dogs either
and that unequal application of laws is sometime necessary.
   State Senator Mary Ann Tebedo interrupted a Unitarian minister during
hearing to say  that she was tired of hearing about (gays' and lesbians')
their children.  They don't have children. They can't have children without
outside help. The only reason they adopt is to recruit. They're not their
children and they never will be.
   Tebedo's son, Kevin, was an author and founder of Colorado's anti-gay
Amendment 2 and a founder of Colorado for Family Values. Of late he, and his
sister, have been associated in some reports with extremist groups, militias
and extreme right individuals like Colorado's state senator, Charles Duke.
Tebedo recently was a star witness in a "Common Law Jury" in Canon City
Colorado that tried the US Government for crimes against the people.
   Colorado for Family Values has fueled speculation that they will take the
anti-gay question to a state wide referendum if the governor vetoes it, as he
has done.
   Frank Whitworth [GrndzeroCo]