Gays on Hold

Colorado rejected a bill allowing same sex civil unions.The legislation was voted down by Republican lawmakers on a 5-to-4 vote. There were many in the state hoping to pass this bill, including Mark Ferrandino of Denver, one of four openly gay state legislators. "The bill had cleared a number of committees and the full State Senate, but lawmakers reached an impasse last week and the bill was never brought to the House floor for a full vote before the legislative session concluded." Representative Don Coram (voting against the bill), a Republican from Montrose, said he was torn, because he has a gay son. “This is a situation that is very close to my heart,” he said. “But it’s very difficult because I also represent 75,000 people in southwest Colorado. What you are asking me to do here is to invalidate the vote of six years ago.”When he said this he was referring to a 2006 ammendment approved by the states voters that marriage was defined as being between a man and a woman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/colorado-rejects-same-sex-civil-unions.html?_r=1&ref=us