August 27, 2006 06:02 PM UTC

Beauprez, Domestic Partnerships and 5280 Magazine

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• by: Colorado Pols

Two weeks ago Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez was called out by The Denver Post for apparently changing his position on domestic partnerships. The Post cited a 5280 magazine article in which Beauprez talked somewhat favorably about domestic partnerships:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez said Tuesday that he does not support a proposed ballot measure to grant same-sex partnerships – forcing his campaign to explain a February article that said he did not oppose same-sex “unions.”

A February issue of 5280 magazine paraphrased Beauprez as saying he “rejects the idea of same-sex marriage. He’s okay with same-sex ‘unions,’ but he believes ‘that marriage is between a man and a woman.”‘

5280 magazine publisher Dan Brogan has made available the interview in question with Beauprez at 5280.com, and there’s no question that Beauprez is sympathetic to the idea of domestic partnerships:

If we want to talk about some kind of a relationship between two people that isn’t man and woman, and what we think of as the traditional marriage union, I’m willing to talk about that.