Prop H8 protest Colorado Springs

In solidarity with a national day of protest, organized with "Join the Impact!", Spectrum, at UCCS and the Pride Center in Colorado Springs organized a protest against the passage of Prop 8 in California, in which 95-100 people attended.

In Colorado rallies took place in Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Durango and Aspen.

The "Join The Impact!" movement seeks to encourage the LGBTQ community not to look towards the past and place blame, but instead to look forward toward what needs to be done now to achieve one goal: Full equality for ALL. We stand for reaching out across all communities. We do not stand for bigotry, for scapegoating, or using anger as our driving force. Our mission is to encourage our community to engage our opposition in a conversation about full equality and to do this with respect, dignity, and an attitude of outreach and education.

Join The Impact!, as an entity, will not encourage divisiveness, violence, or disrespect of others and we do not approve of this. We do not stand for pointing the finger at one group and placing blame. The LGBTQ community comes in all different colors, creeds, religious beliefs, and political parties. If we allow ourselves to place blame on one community or another, then we are no better than those who oppose us. We will not pit one community against another.

At Join The Impact!, we are all inclusive. As such, we will continue to encourage debate from all sides of the conversation provided it is civil and respectful. We will encourage our community to not let anger steer the conversation, but with an understanding that anger is a human reaction and we hope that it can be used as a catalyst toward positive change.

Finally, we stand for national unity in the face of opposing forces that have steered the conversation into a state by state issue. We will celebrate our state by state wins, but work as one large entity to help gain these wins and will unite in the conversation against us to plant the seed of change and community.

SPECTRUM is a student run organization at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Our mission is to provide a means of social interaction, support, community involvement and visibility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and their supporters. We do this by organizing and participating in campus-wide activates such as National Coming Out Day, organizing round-table discussions and having a good time. In addition we provide educational materials to help fight homophobia. SPECTRUM tries to work closely with the LGBTQ community and other LGBTQ college organizations in the Colorado Springs area to help us in our mission.

The Pride Center in Colorado Springs envisions a thriving Colorado Springs in which all people, including GLBT people, can reach their full potential as human beings, free from oppression and discrimination. We envision a region where individual rights are honored, and constitutional rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are upheld for all people.

http://JoinTheImpact.wetpaint.com/
http://www.YourPrideCenter.org/
http://web.uccs.edu/Spectrum/index.html

Keith Olbermann's great statement on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HpTBF6EfxY

part 2 of Springs rally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRSCXwx2X0

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[CSaction]

@draqonofwhitestars

What the fuck planet are you idiots on?

The 3 lawsuits to overturn are now in the Supreme Court of California under Strauss v. Horton, Docket S168047 in California.

The fucking mormons, godDAMNED vatiCON and evangelicals are fighting AGAINST the sanctity of love, marriage and equality in a vain theocratic battle to codify hate and ignore the 14th amendment. None of them will post here.

prop8trialtracker (dot) com/

[CSaction]

Well, I'm not a member of your fan club if you can't understand why anyone would want to be treated equally under the law, and why the constitution states emphatically, that everyone MUST be treated equally. You don't want the law to be different for you just because you're a bigot, so I would think you could understand. Your "war on Christians" argument is total bullshit.

[Keyaunis]

whats going on here? what is this vid about

[vidhead85]

This is wonderful! I'm gonna start monitoring a lot of the laws in my state so that I could boycott and get those things off of the books

[ModerateGuy738]

@draqonofwhitestars You think you're "saving family values" by stripping away the rights of parents with children? You think taking away legal benefits of parents and adding financial burdens on them so they have less money to spend on their children is "saving family values"? In what universe does that pass for logic?

[draqonofwhitestars]

Pass Proposition 8! This is about saving family values.

[shadowsA7Xme27]

My friend was kicked out of the Focus on the Family building where he was taking his little half-brother and that was the last straw for me.

[shadowsA7Xme27]

Amazing. Wish I could have been there but I'm unfortunately living in California at the moment. I support everything in this video. Keep it up!

[MazeleyFanClub]

Question - why can't you just fight for civil unions and equality under the law? Why is that not enough? Because you want complete acceptance by all people and all religions. If you don't get that, you want to destroy any religion which disagrees with your own beliefs or lifestyle.  As long as you say disingenuous garbage like "prop h8", as long as you refuse to even acknowledge WHY people have a counterargument, I will never take you seriously. LEARN TO LISTEN IF YOU WANT TO BE LISTENED TO.

[ekworkaru]

im sure it had a majoooooor effect lawl