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Teen’s Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Initiative Fails to Get Financial Support in Colorado

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Mark Olmstead, a 19-year-old Colorado voter, who launched a campaign in July to try and get a ballot initative legalizing same-sex marriage on the state’s ballot, has dropped his campaign after failing to get needed financial support, the OutFront Colorado reports:

Mark Olmstead, a sophomore at Seattle University, told Out Front Colorado he decided to withdrawal his initiative after not garnering enough fiscal support to fund it.

While there was an outpouring of individuals who said they’d help collect signatures, since being cleared by the state to collect signatures July 20 no organization or person came forward with cash to help Olmstead fund what would be a costly year-long campaign, Olmstead said.

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CO: Students Demonstrate for Gay Marriage in Boulder

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Hundreds of University of Colorado students gathered around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain on Monday night in a show of support for gay rights. The demonstration came before a same-sex marriage debate on the CU campus organized by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought.

“I want to promote love and equal rights,” said CU freshman Alexandra Deary. “We’re here and not going away. We want our rights now.” The students waved banners, sang and carried flowers intended for picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps. But members of the Kansas church — who, according to the church’s Web site, were going to protest against gay rights outside the debate venue — were nowhere to be found.

Westboro’s position on gay marriage includes “God Hates Fags, God Hates Fag Enablers and God Hates You all in Boulder,” according to the Web site.

Full Story from Colorado Daily
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