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Focus on the Facts: Colorado Marriage License Sit-in

September 24, 2007 by soulforce

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On September 24, 2007, Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder of Englewood, Colo., were arrested and removed in police custody from the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building. The couple had entered the Denver Clerk and Recorder Office to demand a marriage license. After requesting an application and being denied on the basis of state and federal law, Burns and Schroeder refused to leave, insisting that marriage laws which deny full equality to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are an example of religion-based oppression and undermine America’s tradition of religious pluralism protected by the U.S. Constitution.

News coverage by 7NEWS.

Court Trial May 7, 2008

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Filed Under: Right to Marriage Tagged With: Christian Supremacy, denver, direct action, Gay Christian, Homophobia, kate burns, LGBT activism, LGBT history, lgbtq, LGBTQI, marriage equality, Queer activism, Religion-based violence, right to marry, same-sex marriage, sheila schroeder, soulforce

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