Republicans on the Colorado Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee JUST took two anti-LGBTQ votes.
The first was a 3-2 vote to defeat the bill to ban conversion therapy (the fourth year this committee has voted to kill this bill) and the second was a 3-2 vote to pass a bill that will legalize discrimination against LGBTQ Coloradans in the areas of adoption and foster care. This second bill could actually pass the State Senate in the coming days. Will you fight back today and send your state senator an email telling them to vote no on Senate Bill 241?
CLICK HERE to tell your state senator to make sure every child in Colorado has a loving home by opposing Senate Bill 241.
Not only does this bill allow discrimination, it endangers children. It would supersede laws that protect kids and would open the door to a wide range of physical, emotional and psychological child abuse, as long as that abuse does not “imminently and seriously endanger a minor’s physical health,” and as long as the parents claimed it was based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.
You can help make sure this harmful piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation does not pass by telling your lawmaker to vote NO on this bill.
There are more than 6,600 kids currently in Colorado’s child welfare system – and this legislation will make it harder for those kids to find permanent, loving homes.
Adoption agencies shouldn’t deny loving, stable, forever homes to children in foster or government care just because the prospective parents are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) or don’t otherwise share the agency’s religious views.
