Governor Jared Polis signed a measure on Monday which officially repeals a provision in the constitution of Colorado declaring that marriage is only valid if it is between a man and a woman.
THE InvoiceSponsored by senator Jessie Danielson, D-Wheat Ridge and the representatives Brianna Titone, D-Arvada, and Lorena Garcia, D-Unincorbed Adams County, implements the will of the voters, who approved a largely approved exception Constitutional amendment J in the 2024 elections.
“This bill will cement the capacity of coloradans to marry who they love,” said Polis. “It is frankly not the affairs of the government to tell people who are married, and who is currently protected by Previous of the Supreme Court. “”
“Love is one of the most incredible and most beautiful things that advances one of us, which helps us to wake up, and which helps us make decisions in our lives that we make, and when we have things in our laws that prevent us from being who we are and to be with whom we love, it drains,” said Garcia. “Today, we will be able to get rid of these discriminatory words from our lives that will allow everyone to be free, because that is what it is – it is freedom, freedom to get married.”
Amendment I canceled a previous constitutional amendment to Colorado that the voters approved in 2006. This amendment was naked Obergefell c. Hodges In 2015. The 2006 law remained in the books of Colorado.
ObergefellThat the United States Supreme Court decided during a vote of 5-4 in 2015, concluded that a fundamental right to get married is guaranteed to same-sex couples.