Subject: No more excuses
From: "Alan Franklin, ProgressNow Colorado" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:02:20 -0600 (CST)

ProgressNow Colorado

Dear Friend,

It's a very exciting time in
Colorado. Public opinion has shifted, and the time has finally come to
give
Colorado's gay and lesbian citizens the basic legal protections
most of us take
for granted.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=-9AapfFBB9xc8s2mL1YwKw..

New polling released last
week shows how the public in Colorado has changed its views in the
last few
years: according to respected Public Policy Polling, over 70% of
Coloradans now
support legally recognized domestic partnerships. What we're
talking about here are the basics: the ability to visit one another in
the hospital. The
choice to live together in a nursing home, and to leave property to
each other
in wills. The ability to make medical decisions when a partner is
incapacitated. (Colorado Independent,
2/10/2011)

A few years ago, misinformation
and bigotry made this conversation difficult. But today, the people
of
Colorado understand what needs to be done, and are ready to end
second-class
citizenship in our state.

Colorado Sen. Pat Steadman
has introduced a bill in the Colorado legislature to create civil
unions for
committed same-sex couples. Please take a moment right now to show
your
support! Our friends at One Colorado have created a simple website
where you
can instantly message your state representative and Senator, and urge
them to
support civil unions now.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=EjvBEfJoZ8l6xw_82c70vw..

There
is no reason to deny two people who want to team up to take on
life's
responsibilities and challenges the basic tools to do so. Committed
couples are
better able to cope with a bad economy through teamwork. What's
more, the
Williams Institute's study of Sen. Steadman's bill
indicates it will result in
millions of dollars in badly needed new revenue for Colorado over the
next few
years. (Colorado Independent,
2/16/2011)

These
are the facts. Civil unions make sense. They make sense economically
and
fiscally, in addition to being the morally right thing to do. Please
take a
moment right now to contact your legislators, and urge them to protect
all of
Colorado's families by supporting civil union legislation this
year.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=CwsicxC91GRWCf-MwVm-Gg..

Thank
you,
Alan
Franklin

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