March 18, 2011 11:39 PM UTC

UPDATED: Senate Passes Civil Unions Bill S-172--POLL

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• by: khmeck

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Update: The Senate has passed the Civil Unions bill, and it’s off to it’s fate in the house.

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The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed the civil unions bill, and referred it to the ‘Committee of the Whole’, which the assembly website abbreviates as COW.

Bad abbreviations aside, what’s your take: Will the bill pass the Senate, and does it have a fighting chance in the House?

Background:

On the news that a majority of Americans support gay marriage my inclination was to think there would probably be a high-profile campaign to pass the bill–but all I’ve found so far are some relatively tame petition campaigns, such as this “Republicans for Equality” petition buried on One-Colorado.org.  it seems to me we should have a high profile push to get the civil unions bill the rest of the way through the CO Senate and House.

A quick look online didn’t turn anything up, so I asked on the open thread which legislators were swing legislators, and where a person would go to help out. Ralphie oh-so-helpfully explained that the bill is DoA in the house, because McNulty can send it to committee to die. Is he likely to do that? What about putting it on the ballot this fall then? Newspapers across the state are endorsing the Senate bill, so maybe it really could pass?

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