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South metro leaders join call for immigration reform
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Cancer League goes Over the Edge
The South Metro Denver Chamber and District Attorney George Brauchler were among those who participated in last week’s Day of Action for Immigration Reform.
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Ms. Colorado Senior America is crowned
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On its 20th Anniversary, Ms. Colorado Senior America awarded the 2014 title to Sharon Nuanes of Golden. Meet her and the other multi-talented contestants of this year’s pageant.
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A heave-ho to Prince Charming
‘Gorilla and the Fairy’ is a tale of domestic violence
By Peter Jones or an epoch or two, fairytales – and their wellworn musical adaptions – have spread the odd myth that all a damsel in distress really needs a kiss and quick rescue from a readily available handsome prince. The formula even worked when the prince and evildoer were one in the same. In Beauty and the Beast, the brutish protagonist is transformed into a charming bon vivant by the well-placed truelove kiss of his codependent captive. “A lot of the time, it seems like the point of a fairytale is to get the guy,” said Georgia Lundeen, a children’s author and musical arranger. Likewise, her friend Tina Hamilton, the singer-actress-director-writer-composer who runs Greenwood Village-based Hamilton Arts Academy, thinks such stories leave little room for independent women, or non-heroic men.
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Blossom (Lucy Ingolfsland) and Violet the Fairy (Sarah Puckett) rest in happier times in The Gorilla and the Fairy. The musical fairytale about domestic violence will be performed next week in free workshops at Koelbel and May libraries. Photos courtesy of Civic Light Opera of Colorado Kids
Arapahoe clerk won’t issue same-sex licenses Announcement comes in wake of court decisions
By Peter Jones Gay couples may get married in Denver, Boulder or Pueblo, but they won’t be doing so in Arapahoe County any time soon. Last week, Clerk and Recorder Matt Crane issued a statement indicating that his office would not be following the lead of other counties that began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples last week after two court decisions cast doubt on the future of Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Our position has not changed,
and Arapahoe County will continue to uphold Colorado’s constitutional provision on same-sex marriage, and will follow Colorado statute by issuing civil-union certificates to same-sex couples. We will abide by any future court rulings that impact Colorado,” the July 10 statement said. Gay-marriage boosters have been encouraged by the two recent court decisions, which have been seen by some as a green light to legalize gay marriage. Meanwhile, state Attorney General John Suthers is expected to ask the Colorado Supreme Court to bring some finality to the chaos and legal ambiguity.
On July 10, Boulder District Court Judge Andrew Hartman rejected Suthers’ request to injunct Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall from issuing licenses to gay couples in violation of a voter-approved state constitutional amendment that prohibits gay marriage. Hartman’s ruling arguably opened the doors for other county clerks across Colorado to consider issuing such licenses, even though they could later be declared invalid if a higher court were to uphold the state’s ban. That possibility appeared to be one of Crane’s chief concerns. “The decision by the Boul-
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der County District Court does not have bearing on the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder’s Office because it did not address the underlying legality or constitutionality of same-sex marriage in Colorado,” Crane’s statement said. A day before the Boulder decision, a ruling by Adams County District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree said the ban was unconstitutional and bore “no rational relationship to any conceivable government interest.” Because Crabtree stayed his decision in anticipation of highercourt rulings, Crane’s statement said the ruling “has no effect in Colorado.”
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