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May 25, 2004
Pete Coors, from the Coors Brewery family, is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican from Colorado. He's also giving America a good reason to make sure he's not elected.
In a debate with his Republican opponent, former Congressman Bob Schaffer, Coors lent his support for a discriminatory amendment to the United States Constitution denying equal marriage rights to gay and lesbian Americans. Coors went further to limit his support to the Federal Marriage Amendment language as written by U.S. Representative Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado.
Coors Brewing Company has long been the focus of an uncoordinated gay and lesbian community boycott for several direct efforts by the Coors family to fund campaigns denying equal rights to gay and lesbian Americans.
The conservative Heritage Foundation, founded and financed by Joseph Coors, openly criticized the Supreme Court for striking down Colorado’s discriminatory, anti-gay Amendment 2 a few years ago. Rush Limbaugh said of the Heritage Foundation in November 2000, "Some of the finest conservative minds in America today do their work in the Heritage Foundation." That's a mind-numbing endorsement from America's paragon of conservative talk radio.
The Castle Rock Foundation, whose president is William Coors, funded efforts to fight an equal marriage rights battle in Hawaii in the late 1990s. One of Castle Rock's missions listed on its website if to "uphold traditional American values."
Each purchase of Coors Beer seems to not only fund an ideology of discrimination, but now plays a direct role in electing officials aiming to undermine our nation's founding principles.
Those efforts now regrettably live on through Pete Coors' recent pronouncement as a candidate for U.S. Senate that the founding principles of fairness and equality codified in the United States Constitution need to be altered to exclude some Americans.
It's time for Coloradoans to send a signal of support for better principles and choose a candidate that stands for fairness and equality. It's time for the gay and lesbian community to reconsider the price paid for each bottle of Coors beers sold in this country and abroad.
Coors says he'd support proposal to ban gay marriages
By Gwen Florio
Rocky Mountain News
May 25, 2004
Browse the shameful comments made by supporters of the Federal Marriage Amendment in Community Quotes.
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