traditional marriage group expands mission [View All]

[niyad]

(unfortunately, this group, funded by fungus and who knows who else, isn't that far off from that group in WA--unfortunately, they are dead serious about their aims, and it isn't to show how absurd their belief systems are)

Traditional-marriage group expands mission

Colorado Family Action gets new funding, hires lobbyist

By PERRY SWANSON THE GAZETTE

A group that successfully led efforts last year to defend a traditional definition of marriage in state laws now hopes to expand its influence across Colorado politics. Many such groups fade away after an election, but Colorado Family Action has found new funding sources, hired a part-time lobbyist and made other moves to guard its vision of families. It was one of the main groups last year opposing Referendum I, which would have established legal recognition of gay couples, and supporting Amendment 43, which called for enshrining opposite-sex marriage in the state constitution. Referendum I failed and Amendment 43 passed.




Colorado Family Action paid for its campaigns with money from Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based Christian ministry. Other big donations came from the ministry’s lobbying arm, Focus on the Family Action.

Now, Colorado Family Action is getting money from other sources, said President and CEO Jim Pfaff, but he wouldn’t identify them. Organizers have formed the Colorado Family Institute, a related nonprofit that’s one of 37 state Family Policy Councils allied with Focus on the Family.

Pfaff said Colorado Family Action will focus on “protecting life from conception until natural death, protecting religious liberty, working to point out examples of judicial activism and help define the proper role of the courts, and upholding the principle that parents are the primary educators of their children.”

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