And according to local polls, civil unions strike a majority of Coloradans as an acceptable compromise.
Far from intending to threaten the religious or civil liberties of the majority Christian population (which remains vastly superior in numbers), the goal was to create a common framework of laws but otherwise leave everyone to their own devices.
Gay marriage is more unpopular than unions (about 60% dislike the former), but, depending on how the question is asked, a small majority disapproves of civil unions too.
We have come 180 degrees from 1968, when Kevin Phillips in his landmark political study of that election, "The Emerging Republican Majority, " noted that by virtue of capturing the loyalty of the anti-civil rights whites of the South along with a majority of voters from the nation's heartland, Republicans put themselves in a position to be the dominant party in the country after decades of Democratic rule.
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Zimbabwe observes both civil law and traditional law, and the vast majority of women (except for white women and the few African women who marry under civil law) come under traditional law.
Between 2, 000 and 2, 500 such cases are lodged with the Punjab police each year, the majority being diverted to the civil courts.
The classic examples of this traditional minority-majority engagement are the black civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and the labor movements in the West throughout the 20th century.
Frigide, just like a majority of the French, supported the civil union enacted in 1999, the so-called Pacs, designed mainly for same sex couples.
More broadly, he fails to draw clear lines around which civil liberties would remain inviolable regardless of the super-majority in Congress.
The powerful House Majority Leader comes up wherever people are monitoring the civil trial and the criminal indictments, for several reasons.
But sometimes a centre-left majority holds sway in the Parliament on environmental or civil liberties issues, and in such cases there is often legislative gridlock, Votewatch says.
Such drama is largely absent from Malaysia's sharia courts, which operate in parallel with civil ones and deal mostly with family law for the Muslim majority, annulling marriages and adjudicating custody disputes.
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We saw today a very civil procedure where you have an election and a change in majority, an election of the speaker that took place in just a few minutes' time with a roll-call vote.
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to take another look at the Texas voter map, which had been passed by a Republican legislative majority but challenged by a coalition of Democrats and civil rights groups.
Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.
If a majority of the French people backed equality of treatment and therefore civil union for all, with its strings of fiscal advantages, they did however split on the second part of the bill, and the question of adoption rights and access to IVF for gays and lesbians.
The vast majority of police departments around the country work tirelessly to protect the civil and constitutional rights of the communities they serve.
Even before the letter was issued, the Office for Civil Rights had routinely enforced the points addressed in it, and the vast majority of schools were already in compliance.
Board of Education, ending school segregation, civil-rights activists came to see courts as the solution to the abuses of majority rule.
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Liberals like to boast that they are defenders of civil rights and constitutional freedoms, especially in protecting the rights of the minority against the majority.
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The new conservative majority was so unfazed about that possibility yesterday that for the first time in 15 years a majority opinion cited as precedent one of those Supreme Court decisions reversed by the 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Act.
In the majority of Central American and Caribbean countries there are no major legal or social initiatives regarding gay marriage or civil partnerships.
Experts are saying that it looks like the majority of the court is willing to hear argument that says, I want to raise this as a civil rights claim at the trial level.
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