HB23-1278 lets a county clerk and recorder issue a “marriage” or “civil union” license without the applicants appearing in person.
The Senate passed HB23-1278 on May 2, 2023, by a vote of 25 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the noes because Colorado should protect “marriage,” rather than redefine or degrade it. This bill not only illegitimately recognizes same-sex “civil unions,” but wrongly assumes that “marriage” is to be determined exclusively, even frivolously, by the government. However, “marriage” is a God-ordained institution consisting of a sacred covenant between a man and a woman. It’s the foundation of the family and cannot be equated to “civil unions,” which are based on grossly illicit acts of sexual behavior contrary to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” There can be no appeal to the “pursuit of Happiness” for anyone separate from the moral sanctions set forth by “their Creator” who grants them with “certain unalienable Rights.” No amount of consecration can make constitutional, much less holy, what is abominable and shameful. The state must defend “marriage” from mockery and disparagement by rejecting “civil unions.”