Colorado for Family Values was a socially conservative

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/ref> It existed from 1990 to 2002.

Overview

It was co-founded by Tony Marco, Kevin Tebedo and David Noebel in the early 1990s.Didi Herma, ''The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right'', University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. 22

/ref> Will Perkins, a former car dealer from Colorado Springs, was the chairman of the board. Originally, it was called the Colorado Coalition for Family Values, but they dropped the word 'coalition' after a

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.Randall Balmer, Lauren F. Winner, ''Protestantism in America'', Columbia University Press, 2005, p. 16

/ref> Some have argued, because of the proximity of timing for the moving of Focus on the Family to Colorado Springs, that James Dobson's move to Colorado Springs in 1991 led to its establishment. However, it was truly coincidental timing as Focus on the Family had nothing to do with the founding of Colorado for Family Values. Dobson's

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is independent from Colorado for Family Values. It has also been linked to

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, Summit Ministries, Concerned Women for America, and the

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. Bill McCartney, the founder of Promise Keepers, is a supporter. Colorado for Family Values was created specifically for the purpose of countering an objective of the Colorado Human Relations Commission, to introduce legislation that would effectively add the behavior of homosexuality to the list of protected class status, thus creating the legal process of strict scrutiny for claims of discrimination made by homosexual individuals. It drafted and promoted Amendment 2 in 1992, which led to the United States Supreme Court case '' Romer v. Evans''.

Dissolution

Colorado for Family Values was dissolved in 2002 according to the records of the Colorado Secretary of State.

References

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External links

Official website
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